Every generation has felt compelled to describe it anew, yet none has exhausted the subject. Fortress, monastery, village and island, it continues to inspire the same astonishment today that it inspired Hugo, Maupassant and Adams more than a century ago. As the tides erase the boundary between land and sea, the Mount itself remains one of Europe's most unforgettable works of both nature and human imagination.

As is the case for most arrondissements, the 17th cannot be understood as a single neighborhood. Rather, it is composed of four distinct quartiers, each with its own history, architecture, atmosphere and property market: Ternes, Plaine-de-Monceaux, Batignolles and Épinettes. The first three of these are connected by two main streets with their particular feel: the elegant Boulevard Pereire with its green space, and the shopping street, rue Jouffroy d’Abbans.

If you are a current or future apartment owner in Paris, you are aware of the administrative difficulties of installing conventional A/C. In this article we’ll review those difficulties, some work-around solutions and other viable options. We’ll also take a look at how Paris may tackle the heat problem in a more comprehensive way.

May 1st, 2026 marked the one-year anniversary of the opening of the Mosaic Restaurant at the Château des Tesnières. The labor of love having led to that grand moment required a full four years. It was to be a new chapter in the remarkable culinary career of Chantel Dartnall, having already won her award as one of the world’s premier female chefs at her Mosaic Restaurant in South Africa.

Culinary creation by Chef Chantel Dartnall - Mosaic Restaurant, Château des Tesnières After about 1000 pages of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, I was starting to think enough is enough. Someone asked me why I kept reading. I grappled with that question. "There are times when I revel in the finesse of his observations." That now stated, I continued reading, in search not only of lost time but also of lost finesse. Ours is an age where all discourse and expressi

Has not France offered it all? Eternity ebbs and flows sous le pont Mirabeau as the Seine says goodbye to Paris, carrying with it a thousand words of love unlocked from its bridges. Flocks of lovers with their silly locks wanted their love to last forever. Their love comes and goes, but Paris remains and the Seine still flows. L’amour s’en va comme cette eau courante L’amour s’en va Comme la vie est lente Et comme l’Espérance est violente… -Guillaume Apollinaire How does it