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    • Tuesday, 24 October, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      Parlez-vous Parisian? How to speak like a local in the French capital

      A crash course in an ever-shifting dialect that expresses the city’s cosmopolitan cool. Wesh!

      Cartoon of people speaking French words
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
      My perfect weekend in Paris: Le Collectionist’s Max Aniort

      The co-founder of the luxury villa rental company on his favourite spots for everything from groceries to cocktails in his ninth-arrondissement neighbourhood

      Max Aniort – a bearded, spectacled man in a beige jacket, grey tee-shirt and white trousers – sitting on a chair in a Japanese restaurant in Paris
    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
      Five time capsules of interior designer Raphael Navot’s personal Paris

      The Israeli-born designer takes us to the places that for him have long been the very essence of the City of Light

      Interior designer Raphael Navot at his desk at home
    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      HTSI
      Want a piece of Paris’s longest-running party?

      The sale of the contents of the capital’s Hôtel Lambert opens a window onto a world of untrammelled decadence

      Hôtel Lambert’s Grand Salon at night
    • Tuesday, 30 August, 2022
      FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
      Exploring Paris with Rémy Martin’s Baptiste Loiseau

      The fifth — and youngest — Cellar Master in the long history of the maison’s Louis XIII Cognac shares his favourite eateries, markets and gardens in the French capital

    • Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
      FT Globetrotter
      Belleville rendezvous: bienvenue to Paris’s most exciting new food scene

      This buzzing quartier is home to some of the French capital’s coolest cuisine, much of it pioneered by female chefs. Here are six of its most delicious — and daring — restaurants

      Scallop tartare with shaved fennel and persimmon at Le Grand Bain
    • Monday, 28 March, 2022
      FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
      Dawn to dusk in Paris with baker Apollonia Poilâne

      After watching the sun rise at Sacré Coeur, the scion of the eponymous Parisian family bakery — which she has run since the age of 18 — loves exploring the French capital on two wheels until nightfall

    • Tuesday, 1 February, 2022
      FT Globetrotter
      FT readers: the spaces that make you feel good in your city

      We asked you to share your ‘happy places’ around the world — and you’ve whisked us everywhere from an Alaskan ice-cream parlour to a Singaporean Eden, via a magical Roman ruin . . . 

    • Monday, 27 December, 2021
      FT Globetrotter
      Cities on screen

      FT film critic Danny Leigh selects the best movies in which the city plays a starring role

    • Tuesday, 21 December, 2021
      FT GlobetrotterCities on screen
      The city of lights, camera, action: 12 of the best films set in Paris

      Cinema is forever paying tribute to its birthplace — here are just a dozen of the most glorious celluloid celebrations of the French capital

    • Monday, 13 December, 2021
      FT Globetrotter
      A star is born: Bulgari’s sparkling addition to the Parisian skyline

      Six years in the making, the latest outpost of the Italian luxury brand’s hotel empire is a cool contemporary statement for the 8th arrondissement

    • Tuesday, 23 November, 2021
      Travel
      Madame Rêve and the rebirth of Paris’s smartest neighbourhood

      The launch of a luxury hotel is the latest makeover turning the quartier into the city’s new ‘golden triangle’

    • Friday, 22 October, 2021
      Visual Arts
      Daughter of Impressionism: Julie Manet’s fascinating family album

      A Paris exhibition gathers works by Morisot, Manet and more — and reveals the pivotal role of women in forging modern art

      ‘Julie Daydreaming’, Morisot’s portrait of her daughter, shows Julie with her right hand on her cheek
    • Monday, 18 October, 2021
      FT Globetrotter
      Portrait of a park

      FT correspondents and writers tell the stories of their city’s most beloved green spaces

    • Tuesday, 5 October, 2021
      Visual Arts
      The Morozov collection at Fondation Louis Vuitton — Russia’s Silver Age shines again

      The remarkable collection of French and Russian art acquired by two wealthy brothers is on show in Paris

    • Friday, 10 September, 2021
      HTSI
      How To Spend It in... Paris

      Skincare brand Sisley’s global vice president Christine d’Ornano gives her run-down of the French capital’s most stylish spots

    • Monday, 28 June, 2021
      FT GlobetrotterRide with the FT
      Vive le vélo: the ultimate guide to cycling in Paris, from scenic routes to the rules of the road

      With plans in place for a post-car city, cyclists are reclaiming the streets of the French capital. Our FT columnist shares his top tips on how and where to cycle in Paris, in the first of a new FT Globetrotter cycling series

    • Tuesday, 25 May, 2021
      InterviewTravel
      My Paris: Call My Agent’s Grégory Montel opens his address book

      The hit show has made viewers yearn for a weekend in Paris. Its star Grégory Montel, aka Gabriel Sarda, shares his tips for where to go

    • Monday, 24 May, 2021
      FT Globetrotter
      Tips from the top

      Business and cultural leaders share insider guides to their cities

    • Thursday, 11 March, 2021
      Stretch yourself: escape into a world of yoga and Pilates
      Paris getaway: 48 hours in Étretat, Normandy

      A very 21st-century retreat in a seaside town that has been an escape for Parisians for more than 100 years

    • Monday, 1 March, 2021
      Exercise and the city: fitness classes for urbanites 
      Game, set and Paris match: where and how to play tennis in the French capital

      The City of Light is well served for tennis courts — from the municipal to the pricey and private. Here is our guide to cracking le système

    • Monday, 8 February, 2021
      FT GlobetrotterPortrait of a park
      Portrait of a park: the Tuileries Garden, Paris – a longstanding love affair

      Home to Rodin’s ‘Kiss’, this storied, quintessentially Parisian park is now the place for a romantic rendezvous

    • Tuesday, 26 January, 2021
      FT GlobetrotterPortrait of a park
      Portrait of a park: Paris’s Jardin du Luxembourg — a trail of the unexpected

      With its orchards, beehives and magnificent tributes to the greats of French culture and history, this Left Bank beauty is full of surprises

    • Monday, 3 August, 2020
      FT Globetrotter
      The best places in Paris for an al fresco drink

      Café society in the French capital is back to its elegant, exuberant self. From the glamorous to the ultra-hip, here are seven spots for outdoor refreshment

    • Monday, 6 July, 2020
      FT Globetrotter
      Paris’s secret gardens: FT readers’ favourite hideaways

      Where to steal away for a few moments of peace, quiet and splendid isolation

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