Paris Personalities
I was introduced to Victoria by Maribeth Clemente, author of THE RICHES OF PARIS at a book signing at Brentanos in Paris.
Afterward several of us had dinner at the Marché de Place St.-Honoré. My clients, from Melbourne, Victoria-Texas, Seattle and San Francisco, former Hermés [...]
Continue Reading →I first met Barbara several years ago when she reached out to me to discuss developing her own Paris brand A Womans Paris. Like many of those of us who have become enamored of the City of Light she has caught the fever.
I’m delighted that she has been able to [...]
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John Davis was born and raised in Berkeley Ca and landed in Normandy after D-Day on July 28 1944. A twenty-four year old ordinance officer responsible for moving trucks and tanks across the channel he met the 15 –year old Jeannette in the village of Granville near Lisieux.
This older brother, younger [...]
Continue Reading →Casablanca had Rick’s Café Américain and Paris has Juan’s La Dernière Goutte, our favorite Paris wine shop.
The refugees that gather on Saturday afternoons at this 6th arrondissement destination when owner Juan Sanchez welcomes one or two of his wine and cognac suppliers for complimentary degustations are not seeking asylum from Nazis-they [...]
Continue Reading →Over flutes of champagne Terence and I swapped New York stories, sang accapella doo-wop to the amazement of nearby diners and discovered a shared passion for France and bubbles
When did you first come to France?
I first came to France in the summer of 1977. I had won a fellowship to [...]
Continue Reading →My Déjeuner with Bernard
A cold December day in Paris and Juan Sanchez had invited the aptly named Bernard Boisson of A. Edmund Audry to present his extraordinary cognacs at La Dernière Goutte’s ritualistic Saturday afternoon dégustation.
Silver-maned, courtly of manner, clad in a tweed blazer and accompanied by Mme. Boisson he was the personification [...]
Continue Reading →How to Eat an Oyster
Oyster maven Jon Rowley and I each had our first oyster vicariously through Ernest Hemingway in A MOVEABLE FEAST. “As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white [...]
Paris Artist Kathy Burke also Paints Portraits
Kathy Burke has been painting, living and making a living in Paris for over 30 years–hard to believe when she breaks out into an adorable and slightly enigmatic smile reminiscent of a slightly self-conscious teenage girl.
She paints with acrylics on linen canvas. Her subjects have been individuals, [...]
Continue Reading →If you are a fan of classic French Cinema then you’ve no doubt seen the name Lenny Borger credited as the subtitler on many new French films and the revivals of such films as LA GRANDE ILLUSION, RULES OF THE GAME, PEPE LE MOKO, QUAI DES ORFEVRES, RIFIFI and BREATHLESS.
I caught up [...]
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