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  • Hop Aboard, See Paris

      The fastest way to get around Paris is definitely the metro but if you have the money AND the time, try it by horse and carriage. Paris Caleches offers tours lasting from 30 minutes to two hours. Romantic add-ons include champagne, roses, macarons, chocolate heart, fruit basket, however, it’s perfectly acceptable to just bring your Starbucks. They’re…

  • Paris fashion then and now

    Which do you prefer?

  • Matisse: Dancing through his career

    Master of the expressive language of color and drawing, Matisse is a modern art original. He referred to The Dance, one of his key masterpieces, as “the overpowering climax of luminosity”. Painted in 1910 it uses a classic Fauvist color palette and reflects his fascination with primitive art. It hangs in the Hermitage Museum. In…

  • The petite jewel of the 6th: Square Boucicaut

    Exit the Sèvres-Babylone Métro station, then orient yourself by turning in a circle to see the historic Bon Marché department store, Luteita Hotel, and luxuriously landscaped Boucicaut Park, a three-fer outing. The garden honors the memory of Aristide Boucicaut, the creator of the famous Bon Marché. Around 1870, the shopkeeper launched a revolutionary concept: free…