Becoming Madame is Becoming Maman!
Some exciting news: Becoming Madame is Becoming Maman (!!), and that explains, along with the full time job, much of …
Category Archives: Shopping
Rue Caulaincourt Brocante
Twice a year, one of the prettiest streets in Paris – winding its way toward Montmartre – hosts an enormous …
A Morning at a Paris Antique Market
UPDATE: A reader wrote to me recently asking for that list I promised – far too long ago now – …
Treasures of a French Pharmacy 3
French pharmacies truly are a haven for unique and specialized products. I could spend hours roaming around one of the …
French Weddings – A Mad Hatter Event
One of the major advantages of living in France has to be the tradition, like in the UK, of wearing …
French Equivalents to What We Know and Love
I was in the Parisian supermarket Monoprix the other day and I noticed a timid looking girl trying to figure …
Ralph Lauren goes Gourmand in Paris
And we’re back in Paris. Wobbling around but home at last, home at last. Over my recuperation period down south, …
Paris for a week, anyone?
A friend sent me an email saying that she was coming to Paris for a week and wondered if I …
The History of Accessories
The Figaro Madame is a French magazine published by the Figaro newspaper conglomerate, the Dassault Group, here in Paris. Serge Dassault, the chairman of …
A Literary Afternoon in Paris
A few days ago, I had the distinct pleasure of filling an entire afternoon roaming around used bookstores in Paris. …
