Dreaming of a fabulous summer vacation drifting quietly along the canals of Burgundy on a delightful barge trip? So were we. Check out our latest issue of La Belle France to read more about this, and:
-Les Enfants Terribles
-Bread & Roses: the perfect shopping break
-Paris’s Ecole Ferrandi cooking school
-The Ritz & the Crillon: renovations coming soon (some have already started)
-The Provinces Museum Calendar Summer 2012 (don’t go to France this summer without our cultural calendar on-hand!)
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The French had a hard time “getting into” Sofia Coppola’s rock’n’roll Marie Antoinette movie with Kirsten Dunst… but it’s true love with Les Adieux à la Reine, the new film based on French author Chantal Thomas’s (not to be confused with lingerie designer Chantal Thomass) award-winning novel that focuses on the Queen’s reader on the eve of the Revolution. (This time round, the ill fated Austrian is portrayed by German actress/model Diane Kruger.) French theaters are filled this spring.
While France abounds with prettier, more romantic castles, Versailles is the one that continually tugs at the heartstrings. For years, the prettiest hotel in Versailles has been the Trianon Palace, abutting the palace gardens, with its kitchen currently supervised by British bad boy Gordon Ramsay. Unfortunately, the Trianon Palace has been bought, re-sold and re-vamped so many times over the last 25 years that its original Belle Époque charm has been lost in the shuffle.
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Something old and something new. That’s what’s going on – on many levels – at the corner of the rue Saint Victor and the rue Monge in the Latin Quarter.
First of all, it’s architectural. The 1930s Maison de la Mutualité – a site reserved mostly for conferences – has just re-opened with an updated Art Deco decor by Jean-Michel Wilmotte (Guy Savoy; Musée d’Orsay; Paris Mandarin Oriental.)
The other ‘new/old’ duality is All About Food. Yannick Alléno, three-starred chef at the Meurice, took over the Mutualité’s 74-seat dining concession and opened a brand-new (Wilmotte-decorated) bistro on March 2nd.
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We’ve got our new April 2012 issue online now! See inside for great articles on:
Yannick Alléno’s new Paris restaurant: Terroir Parisien
Versailles – Not just for Royals Anymore: Angélique & Hôtel de France
Paris Restaurants: Villa Corse, Alain Milliat, & Boco
Paris Hôtels: Chic and Trendy: Le Pradey & Hotel Seven
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From April 25 to October 1st, the Gothic Renaissance Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire hosts the 21st annual International Garden Festival. Located 200 kilometers south of Paris (between Tours and Blois), it’s worth a detour on your castle tour. This year, there’s even a (slight) cuisine connection: Chef Alain Passard chairs the horticultural jury. www.domaine-chaumont.fr Corinne LaBalme
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