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Parisien Salon
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ParisienSalon.com is an online Paris destination magazine and travel planner. Written by Parisians and American expats living in Paris, ParisienSalon.com offers exclusive insider information through articles, listings, photographs and more.
Recent Posts
Striking Out in Paris
Anyone who has ever lived in or visited Paris has likely encountered la grève—what we Americans call a “strike.” Now, in the U.S., strikes are fairly rare. There may be one strike every few years in places like New York City. But in Paris, st...
Lost in Paris
Story by Linda Donahue Emma Lindsay lost it in Paris. So did Michael Fitzgerald. But both were let in on a little-known secret that allowed them to keep their wits about them and, in at least one case, reunite them with that which was lost. “I lef...
How I Fell in Love With Wine
Story by Susan J. Barbour Wine people have a million dollar question. It goes, “What was the bottle that did it for you?” I don’t have a proper answer. For me, there was no bottle. For me it was an actual grape. A moldy, rotten, wri...
You’ve Got Voicemail
My voicemail is stalking me. In Paris (and I assume the rest of France), they really want to be sure that you know you have a voicemail message. It doesn’t matter who the call is from—your mother or Nicolas Sarkozy—cellular providers clearly f...
Paris By Appointment Only: Meet Zeva Bellel
Text by Tory Hoen, Interview by Erica Berman Like so many Americans in this city, Zeva Bellel came to Paris by way of a dream—and an impractical one, at that. Raised in Brooklyn, New York, she spent her youth indulging her Francophile fantasies, de...
Thanksgiving in Paris
I love Thanksgiving in Paris. To the French, it’s business as usual, a typical Thursday—and that’s just the way I like it. It’s not that I’m anti-Thanksgiving. I’m not. But my childhood Thanksgivings were, at least in memory, idyllic. It...

