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Wallace Fountains

Wallace Fountains

Water, Water Everywhere – and Plenty to Drink

September 21, 2022 | By Mary Shaffer | Tales of la Ville

Wallace Fountains are among those elegant touches on Paris’s urban landscape that visitors marvel at and photograph without really knowing what they are or how they got there. In fact, they are perfectly functional public drinking fountains that combine practicality … Read More

Ferdinand Brunot

Ferdinand Brunot

Is That a South Parisian Drawl I Hear?

March 17, 2021 | By Nick Hammond | Tales of la Ville

Listening to early recordings of voices or sounds from the past is always intriguing, as it gives us an auditory glimpse into moments of history. However, sometimes the sounds captured on the earliest recording devices can feel strangely alienating or … Read More

Paris Regained

Paris Regained

Rediscovering the Art of the Flâneur

February 10, 2021 | By Nick Hammond | Tales of la Ville

At a time when so many of the usual pleasures Paris offers – cafés, bars, restaurants, theaters, cinemas, museums – have been denied us, I have rediscovered a quintessentially Parisian pastime: flâner. Meaning to stroll or to wander without any … Read More

Jean-Pierre Bacri

Jean-Pierre Bacri

An Appreciation

January 20, 2021 | By Nick Hammond | Tales of la Ville

The very sad news that Jean-Pierre Bacri died earlier this week at the age of 69 has resulted in a flood of tributes in France for this much-loved actor and screenwriter. Some have looked at the wide range of movies … Read More

Paris Regained

Paris Regained

Return to Café Life

July 15, 2020 | By Nick Hammond | Tales of la Ville

With the devastation and terrible loss that Covid-19 has wrought across the world, it might seem churlish to bemoan the lot of anglophone lovers of all things Parisian, but communication by Zoom and its equivalents with my British and American … Read More

Interview with David Lebovitz

Interview with David Lebovitz

French Culture in a Glass

April 15, 2020 | By Heidi Ellison | Books, Tales of la Ville, What's New Eat & Drink

One of the world’s best-loved food bloggers, Paris-based pastry chef David Lebovitz started his career at Chez Panisse, Alice Waters’ temple of fresh, local, seasonal cuisine in Berkeley, California. Since then, he has published a slew of cookbooks, including The … Read More

Happy Parisians?

Happy Parisians?

A Tale of Three Cities

September 12, 2018 | By Stephen O'Shea | Tales of la Ville

Is it just me, or is the French capital now the jolliest of the big three? By that I mean Western civilization’s splendid PaLoNY: Paris, London, New York. The trio of major metropoles has long hewed to type: New York, … Read More

Living in Paris

Living in Paris

Au Revoir, Monsieur José

April 11, 2018 | By Nick Hammond | Living in Paris, Tales of la Ville

In the 20 years that I have owned a little studio apartment in Paris’s ninth arrondissement, the district has changed considerably. Almost every restaurant has been replaced at successive intervals by other restaurants; fancy gift shops have been transformed into Italian … Read More

Les Halles

Out with the Old Halles, In with Another New One

July 13, 2016 | By Heidi Ellison | Tales of la Ville

In 1971, Bob Crimi, a young American painter who was living in Marseilles at the time, paid a couple of short visits to Paris, camera in hand. Two places in particular grabbed his attention:  the Jeu de Paume, where France’s … Read More

Brexit

Soccer Hooligans in France Strengthen Brexit Argument

June 22, 2016 | By Nick Hammond | Tales of la Ville

Anybody in France unlucky enough to have witnessed drunken English soccer fans causing havoc during the current UEFA Euro soccer tournament may well have a vested interest in  the British Referendum (taking place on Thursday, June 23) on whether or … Read More

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