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Brief Encounter
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Paris’s expatriate innovators PEOPLE
Joie de vivre. The movers and shakers, the dreamers and makers.
25 MY LIFE IN PARIS Theadora Brack muses on the City of Light’s fenêtres, following the unexpected appearance of un voisin nu.
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Cover image: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Bal du Moulin de la Galette,1876 (public domain).
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26 RENDEZVOUS: EXPATS À PARIS Mary Winston Nicklin reveals how expatriate entrepreneurs are pushing the city’s culinary scene into new territories.
34 BRIEF ENCOUNTER Thirza Vallois visits the home of Georges Clemenceau – prime minister, war time leader, journalist and art lover.
70 BEHIND THE BRANDS Jennifer Ladonne delves into the history of fi ne French lace through the story of dentellières, Sophie Hallette.
98 LE DERNIER MOT Kristin Espinasse and her belle-mère take a jaunt to Nyons, where Michèle-France recalls her dancing days of yore…
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C’est beau la Bourgogne
PLEASURE Art de vivre, food, wine and fun. En fi n, a little retail therapy.
47 WINE: PROVENCE’S TRUE STAR Linda Johnson-Bell extols the virtues of Bandol’s wines.
50 À LA CARTE Restaurant reviews by Alexander Lobrano.
54 HIDDEN FLAVOURS OF NICE Hillary Davis on discovering the plaisirs of ‘cuisine Niçoise’.
60 FOOD PROVENANCE: CASSIS Guy Hibbert journeys to Nuits-Saint-Georges in Burgundy to explore the numerous merits of the humble blackcurrant.
62 LE BAL POPULAIRE Pauline Harris explores the amazing history behind, and current revival of, Paris’s traditional neighbourhood dances.
76 RETAIL THERAPY A selection of French autumn essentials, pour elle et pour lui.
78 BOUTIQUE BEAT Jennifer Ladonne spotlights four aesthetically inclined maisons at the vanguard of Parisian innovation in design.
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