Stacks of coffee-stained books overflow the shelves and onto the floor of Tea & Tattered Pages, a secondhand English language bookstore in the 6th arrondissement. Titles blur together, creating a jumbled atmosphere of “where to begin” or “what to read first” until a single poster in the back of the store becomes legible. Unattended children will be sold as slaves.

Far from being the realm of the dead, Paris’s catacombs play unofficial host to a thriving nightlife. From dusk to dawn, hundreds of so-called “cataphiles” take up residence and for these modern troglodytes, the underside of the capital is nothing but a gigantic playground. We paid them a visit.

Food writer Laura Calder analyses her fear of clothing and discovers the intricate links between food, fashion, and the fine art of French dressing.

Stung with stories of discrimination and volatile suburban ghettos, France has come up with a new weapon to fight racism, sexism and ageism in the job market.

They filmed Blue Velvet
In an apartment building
In Wilmington North Carolina
Called “The Carolinas”
I know because I lived in the complex
Just across the street
Was an old southern style church
White and tall
Its steeple reaching into the heavens
With a clever little cross
Just on top
On Sunday morning you could hear
The singing
From our apartment building

Three stylish boutiques to add to your shopping itinerary...

Pleasure for the Eye and Ear

In the Batignolles neighbourhood near Place Clichy, French Touche is a small cave where you enter without knowing what you are looking for, and yet find the item you’ve always wanted.

French philosopher and personality Bernard-Henri Lévy follows in Tocqueville’s footsteps.