Paris in the Spring: Top Romantic Places

Paris is one of the world’s most romantic cities year-round, and when spring arrives it unquestionably hits its peak. Lovers can be seen kissing on quays along the Seine, under blooming trees in flowering gardens, and by candlelight at tables inside cozy cafes. To capture a postcard-perfect photo or to simply create a memory of a few…

Christian Dior

With a clap of thunder, the neigh of a horse, and the clippety-clop of coconut shells on the opening soundtrack, it wasn’t hard to see where John Galliano was going with Fall. Dior’s ready-to-wear was equestrian-themed, a follow-on from the daywear strand of the acclaimed Couture show in January. After Karlie Kloss had swept on, swirling a brown…

Louis Vuitton

On the final day of Paris, Marc Jacobs rounded off the Fall collections in more ways than one. Not to put too fine a point on it, this was one fashion show heterosexual men are going to understand. Breast-wise, it put it all on a plate—or rather a corseted, cantilevered, frill-edged balcony. “And God Created Woman” announced the…

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Biography (1841-1919)

(born February 25, 1841, Limoges, France—died December 3, 1919, Cagnes) French painter originally associated with the Impressionist movement. His early works were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling colour and light. By the mid-1880s, however, he had broken with the movement to apply a more disciplined, formal technique to portraits and figure paintings, particularly of…

Paris

Paris Travel Guide

Ah, Paris, the city of life, love, and light. From the Eiffel Tower to the Mona Lisa, from the bustling Champs Elysées to the winding streets of Montmartre, you’ll find magic, romance, and history as you sip a café au lait, stroll manicured parks, and watch the sun set over the Seine.

Paris Restaurant Reviews

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HISTORY OF FRANCE

Cave-dwellers of France and Spain: from 30,000 years ago

The area to the north and south of the Pyrenees, in modern France and Spain, is occupied from about 30,000 years ago by palaeolithic hunter-gatherers who make good use of the many caves in the area. They leave astonishing signs of their presence, and of their sophistication, in the paintings with…