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Q & A with Ellen Sussman, Author of "French Lessons"

• I've already bought the book (as I do automatically any on the subject of living in France...), but what Ms. ...

So Much for the Smoking Ban

• I don't know about smoking in public sans contrôle being "simply [for which I read 'exclusively'] French", but I do ...

Serge Gainsbourg Garden

• Paul, you should get out into the countryside more often. Pastis is hardly a summer drink, at least not in ...

Cross-Cultural Relationships – Playing with Fire?

• Let us not forget, as has been noted elsewhere, that the laws of France are based on the Napoleonic Code ...

House Guest Heaven or Hell?

• I'm lucky then, I guess, because except for the aforementioned friends of the family variety of guests (who once spent ...

House Guest Heaven or Hell?

• We clearly travel in different circles. Or you have friends even more well-heeled. What I've found is that the trick ...

Cristal Room Buzz

• Well, the guy is pushing 50, if he's not already close to pulling it. He ran Taillevent and restored it, ...

Cristal Room Buzz

• One of my dearest friends spends a week and a half every March (spring break for his university professor spouse) ...

Cristal Room Buzz

• The spelling of the champagne, first pargraph, is "Taittinger," of which the blanc de blancs cannot be more highly esteemed. ...

Some People May Think the French Are Rude But...

• The conversations I get to engage in, especially with casual acquaintances and associates, including shop owners, random people I meet, ...

Some People May Think the French Are Rude But...

• When my late wife and I were in the endless (and endlessly pleasurable) project of slowly and lovingly furnishing our ...

Are the French Rude?

• Ms. Fuller, I am genuinely reassured that it is not personal discomfiture, but plain old gratuitous (unrequested) solicitude (tinged with ...

Are the French Rude?

• Ms. Fiorello, you have quite an imagination. I speak my mind, but that hardly makes me a monster. I wouldn't ...

Are the French Rude?

• The interesting part of this piece by Ms. Fawcett seems to have been missed. The survey was of French adult ...