French Lessons: They’re taking me to Marrakech!
Marrakesh, parched by the sun and bathed in a dusty light giving way to colors subtler and more seductive: intoxicating …
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French Lessons: Zou bisou bisou, Biarritz
Feeling love everywhere, the sexy rendition of the early 1960s French pop hit, Zou bisou bisou, “Oh, kiss kiss.” In …
French Lessons: Crème de la crème of the Côte d’Azur in Menton
Unabashedly playful in your jewelry, sunglasses, sandals and whimsical bag, breeze into this seaside town of gentle waves and sunny …
French Lessons: Flaunt French Chic in Breton Sailor Stripes
Coco Chanel, inspired by sailors after a visit to the French coast, refashioned the horizontal striped marinière traditionally worn by …
French Lessons: Who’s that girl down by the seaside in Deauville?
Coco Chanel, French fashion designer whose pursuit of simplicity made her an important twentieth century figure in fashion and founder …
French Lessons: Take it to the Riviera
La Côte d’Azur, the Mediterranean coastline of the southwest corner of France, attracted the artistic painters, Renoir, Matisse and Picasso, …
French Lessons: Ballet flats –– feline from the toes up
Brigitte Bardot, a classically trained ballerina, in 1956 came to Rose Repetto asking her to fashion a ballet slipper she …
French Lessons: Paris is beautiful in the rain
Paris is beautiful in the rain. Passing the time at a sidewalk café waiting for the rain storm to subside …
French Lessons: Paris’ booksellers along the Seine
Match your mood for a stroll along the Seine: on the right bank from the Pont Marie to the Quai …
French Lessons: Not-so-schoolgirl French
Precocious, carefree Gilberte, aka Gigi, from Colette’s 1944 novella of the same name, sent to be groomed as a young …
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