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Author: Jérôme Kagan

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Style

Art Deco: Two Decades of Transatlantic Collaboration

If you think that French-American architectural ties boil down to swapping a series of variously sized Statues of Liberty, then you should delve into […]
Beyond the Sea

Condé Nast, the Man Behind the Transatlantic Empire

Everyone knows Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Glamour magazines. However, very few remember that Condé Nast, the press group that has become synonymous with elegance […]
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Beyond the Sea

Florence Gould: The Secrets of a Billionaire

Her name will forever be associated with the extravagance of the Roaring Twenties, with the French Riviera and the Juan-les-Pins beach resort she helped […]
Beyond the Sea

Alma de Bretteville Spreckels: The Art of Extravagance

Affectionately nicknamed “the great-grandmother of San Francisco” and “Big Alma,” the six-foot philanthropist put her energy and her fortune into promoting art and enriching […]
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Beyond the Sea

Alice Guy, Cinema’s Forgotten Pioneer

History sometimes suffers from terrible amnesia. Between 1896 and 1916, film-industry pioneer Alice Guy directed almost 700 movies, each one adored by increasingly large […]
Culture

A Mecca for Anglophone Readers in Paris

Set under the elegant arches along the Rue de Rivoli, the Galignani bookstore – “the first English bookshop established on the continent,” as written […]
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Portrait

Jacqueline Chambord: Manhattan Rendezvous

Most people who have heard of Jacqueline Chambord know that she was the heart and soul of the French Institute Alliance Française in New […]
Beyond the Sea

Rosamond Bernier, a Life Lived for Art

In The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson’s latest movie, Tilda Swinton plays J.K.L. Berensen, an eccentric, erudite writer openly inspired by Rosamond Bernier (1916-2016). The […]
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Beyond the Sea

Natalie Barney: The Enchantress on Rue Jacob

Impossibly beautiful, endlessly alluring, a revered host of literary salons and an accomplished writer, the American heiress Natalie Clifford Barney reigned for almost 75 […]
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