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MARY WINSTON NICKLIN
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À la Carte restaurant writer Alexander is a Connecticut Yankee who’s called Paris home for 20 years. He writes the Eurofi le column for the New York Times, and regularly contributes articles on food and travel to Condé Nast Traveller, Forbes Life, Saveur and other publications.
STEPHEN DAVY-OSBORNE Stephen fell in love with France at a young age during family holidays to Brittany and – like every other child of the late 1980s – Disneyland Paris. Summers spent in Cannes and Nice sealed his fate and his passport is now well-worn from frequent cross-Channel trips.
PATRICE BERTRAND
French journalist and former foreign correspondent in the United States for leading French newspapers such as Le Journal du Dimanche and Le Figaro, Patrice is currently based in Provence, where he writes for various magazines. His work has also appeared in FrenchEntrée.
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GILLIAN THORNTON Gillian is a member of the British Guild of Travel
Writers and a long-time specialist on France. She travels regularly to all corners of the country, researching history, heritage and destination features for a variety of travel publications, women’s magazines and websites.
LISE PEDERSEN
Lise is a France-based freelance journalist with a background in television and radio. Specialising in cinema, she covers fi lm festivals and premières in France and further afi eld. Having spent most of her life in
L’Hexagone, she delights in bringing readers a taste of its culture and history.
CAROLINE HARRAP
A freelance writer and editor, Caroline Harrap has been based between Paris and the UK for several years, and now lives near Montmartre. As well as contributing to France
Today, she has also written for property magazine
FrenchEntrée, The Guardian and Local Food Britain, among others.
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JEFFREY T. IVERSON
A native of St Paul, Minnesota, and graduate of NYU’s Institute of French Studies and School of Journalism, Jeffrey has called France home since 2000. His stories of maverick chefs, enlightened winemakers and prolifi c artists have appeared in the likes of Time, Centurion and Departures magazines.
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KRISTIN ESPINASSE The American-born writer and photographer sold her beloved olive farm near Bandol to embark on a new life in sunny La Ciotat. She’s the author of Words in a French Life: Lessons in Love and Language from the South of France and runs the French Word-a-Day blog.
CHLOE GOVAN
Chloe is an award-winning writer and Channel-hopping Francophile with a penchant for Paris living. After working as a travel editor and columnist, she began freelancing for numerous publications including the Times and
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