PARIS (AP).- “Parlez-moi d’amour.” Speak to me of love. This is Paris and the language is love — crazy love — amid the creative folly of a city whose ethereal beauty and bawdy underside spell magic. Spend a day, and a de rigueur night, here a…
Much-Loved Paris Shopping Shrine "La Samaritaine" to Become 450 Million Euro Hotel
PARIS (REUTERS).- Say “La Samaritaine” in this city and shopping-mad Parisians will wax nostalgic about a beloved department store which once boasted it had “everything”. Now, the monument to retail therapy on the right bank of the Seine which has been…
Much-Loved Paris Shopping Shrine "La Samaritaine" to Become 450 Million Euro Hotel
PARIS (REUTERS).- Say “La Samaritaine” in this city and shopping-mad Parisians will wax nostalgic about a beloved department store which once boasted it had “everything”. Now, the monument to retail therapy on the right bank of the Seine which has been…
A Grand Sale at the Grand Palais: Lord Raglan’s Bugattis Realise Over £1.2 Million
PARIS.- The 1933 Bugatti Type 51 Grand Prix Two-Seater owned by the late Fitzroy John Somerset, the 5th Baron Raglan (1927-2010), Patron and former Chairman of the Bugatti Owners’ Club and trustee of the Bugatti Trust, sold for a remarkable €…
Exploring One of Paris’ Most Exceptional Attractions: Cinemas
PARIS (AP).- It may seem backward to travel to one of the most beautiful cities in the world and sit in the dark. In Paris, there are seemingly endless rues and quays and museums and cafes to explore, which means visitors often hurry past one of the ci…
Exploring One of Paris’ Most Exceptional Attractions: Cinemas
PARIS (AP).- It may seem backward to travel to one of the most beautiful cities in the world and sit in the dark. In Paris, there are seemingly endless rues and quays and museums and cafes to explore, which means visitors often hurry past one of the ci…
Travel Postcard: Forty-Eight Hours in Claude Monet’s Giverny
GIVERNY (REUTERS).- Although it is only an hour from Paris, Giverny, the village where Impressionist artist Claude Monet lived and worked, is a world away from the French capital. With its tranquil country lanes, ivy-covered stone houses, rolling hills…