La vie parisienne

Some Parisian buildings are adorned with an inscription or plaque indicating the birthplace of a famous person. These can be found throughout the city, for example at 6 Rue Brochant, where the singer Barbara came into the world, at 10 Rue Saint-Joseph, where Emile Zola was born, and at 56 Rue Notre Dame de Lorette, […]

If you don’t know it’s there, you’ll probably miss it, because no one would expect to see the work of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century hanging above an ordinary restaurant. In the heart of the Latin Quarter, once a gathering place for intellectuals and artists and now filled with souvenir shops […]

The world has hipsters, Paris has bobos. But what exactly is a bobo? And are you a bobo? Let’s find out. The archetypes of gauche caviar The term comes from “bourgeois bohemian,” though there’s probably nothing bohemian about today’s bobos. Rather, they are champagne socialists (or gauche caviar in French) who have their hearts on […]

Although most Parisians seem to rush out of the city as soon as the clock strikes midnight on July 31, it’s not necessarily because August is such a terrible month to be in Paris. On the contrary, it’s actually our favorite time of the year – for several reasons. Yes, many businesses are closed, and […]

Exciting news: We’re going on vacation in August (don’t worry about your personal guide, our business stays open during the summer, we’ll just be working from the beach)! Fine, but why should you care? Because a while ago we bought these tickets to the Olympics that we no longer need, and instead of selling them, […]