La vie parisienne

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 […]

A rabbit hopping from house to house, hiding colorful eggs and chocolate figurines of himself? Here in France, we would have none of this fantastic nonsense. Instead, we came up with an even crazier story. Here, the noble gift giver is… a bell. Les Cloches de Pâques – the Easter Bells No, there was nothing […]

New Year’s resolutions are a universal thing. People all over the world set out to change bad habits starting on January 1. The tradition is more than 4,000 years old and dates back to the Babylonians, who paid off debts and returned borrowed items at the end of the year to start the new year […]

Here are ten completely useless but entertaining facts about your favorite city. Not everyone can be Parisian When Tom Cruise wanted to become an honorary citizen in 2005, the government said non merci. The problem was his affiliation with Scientology, which is considered a cult in France. Flopcorn Another Hollywood star who has learned that […]

Don’t expect to see kids trick-or-treating, carved pumpkins and haunted houses on the 31st. Halloween isn’t a big deal in Paris. At least not yet. Supermarkets and other businesses have already jumped at the opportunity to commercialize yet another day in the year, now the public has to follow. With La Toussaint as a public […]