NEW PARIS AIRPORT Paris may soon have a new airport, but not one that is exactly next door. Ryanair, which already flies into Beauvais Airport, about an hour’s drive from the city, will start using Vatry Airport, located 150 kilometers … Read More
LOUXOR RISES FROM THE DEAD The Egyptian-style cinema is ripe for revival. The Louxor, one of Paris’s grand old cinemas, built in 1921 with an Egyptian-style décor, has been closed since 1987, but has continued to stand reproachfully in a … Read More
TAKE BACK THE SEINE Sketch of a proposed floating cinema on the Left Bank of the Seine, where the mayor wants to close a stretch of the highway to traffic. One of the biggest urban-planning disasters in Paris’s history – … Read More
CHEAP SLEEP ON THE RAILS French train service is among the best and fastest in the world, but a ride on a high-speed TGV train will cost you a pretty centîme. Now, there is a slower alternative for impecunious people … Read More
NO VOTE FOR EXPATS The French National Assembly has rejected a bill, proposed by the Socialist Party, that would have allowed citizens of non-European Union countries living in France the right to vote in French local elections, an idea proposed … Read More
WANT TO EBLABLA? Always attentive to the invasion of the French language by English words, the Secrétariat d’État à la Coopération et à la Francophonie has announced the winners of a competition called Francomot that challenged students to come up … Read More
VIVE LA PLACE DE LA REPUBLIQUE! Paris’s Place de la République, which should be one of the city’s handsomest squares, has long been a most unappealing and neglected place: noisy, with heavy traffic, parked tourist buses, smelly fast-food outlets, rats … Read More
TOP HATS OPTIONAL The Belle Époque is back in Paris this weekend. Equestrian shows, a favorite upper-crust Parisian entertainment at the turn of the century, have not been staged in the city for over half a century, but on April … Read More
WEIL SIXTH IN A SHORT LINE OFFEMALE ACADEMICIANS Last Thursday, Simone Veil, World War II concentration-camp survivor and the person who deserves the most credit for the legalization of abortion in France in 1974, became only the sixth woman to … Read More
WHO WEARS THE SKIRT IN THE FAMILY? Dominique Moreau, president of the association Homme en Jupe. Men in skirts are becoming an increasingly common sight in Paris, and France even has an association, Homme en Jupe (HeJ), formed in 2007, … Read More
