The ultimate guide to Paris for those who don’t like to do things everyone else does. Highly confidential gastronomic addresses, hidden gardens and cafés, astonishing secret passages and much more. All the inspiration you need to explore the city is right here…
Just a few steps from Place Vendôme, a building in the 1st arrondissement holds a special place in the history of fashion. It was at 31 Rue Cambon that Gabrielle Chanel established her fashion house in 19...
The origin of the name Rue des Deux Boules stems from the urban navigation methods of the past. In the 18th century, street numbers did not exist, and residents relied on store signs to find their way a...
Today, it’s hard to imagine the Place de la Bastille without its immense July Column. Yet, more than 200 years ago, the scene was quite different. Where the monument stands today, there once stood an impo...
The year 2026 still has plenty of lovely celestial surprises in store for us. As fall is well underway and the nights grow longer, a new celestial event is on the horizon in November: the Beaver Supermoon...
We instinctively associate Marcel Pagnol with the hills of Aubagne, hunting trips with his father, and the sun-scorched landscapes of Provence. Yet it was in a Parisian townhouse, just a few steps from Av...
Right in the heart of Boulevard de Clichy, while Parisians come here to shop, it’s worth noting that number 53 once housed a very different establishment! During the Belle Époque, you had to pass between...
While we’ve already shared our favorite spots for enjoying great sushi in Paris, none of them allowed us to stuff ourselves to our hearts’ content with this exquisite Japanese delicacy. So, to discover t...
Did you know that a single apple was enough to foil one of the most astonishing jewelry heists of the 20th century? At the end of 1926, a few months after a burglary at the Château de Chantilly, a pink di...
It is one of the most famous apartments in Paris’s 16th arrondissement. On the eighth floor of a building constructed in 1961 on Boulevard Exelmans, Claude François lived for fifteen years, from 1963 unti...
Although Céline Dion is no stranger to Parisian luxury hotels—as seen during her Paris concerts—the singer was once the proud owner of a truly exceptional property in Paris. In 2008, she and her late husb...