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May 2020
Featured Articles
ECONOMY
LA SAMARITAINE
A Department Store Rises from the Ashes
A new temple to fashion, luxury, and gastronomy has arrived. The former Parisian department store has had a major revamp and will be revealing its full Art Deco splendor this fall.
FASHION
SAINT LAURENT
The Impossible Collection
Twenty pounds of unseen documents and photos, three years of work, and two accomplices. An impossible gamble, but one that has paid off. Laurence Benaïm is a fashion journalist and the biographer of Yves Saint Laurent. Martine Assouline is the “eye” for the ultra-chic publishing house bearing her name, and the publisher of this definitive monument to the work of the grand couturier.
CULTURE
OCCUPIED PARIS
Janet Flanner in France
Janet Flanner spent fifty years brilliantly portraying Parisian life in her “Letters from Paris” for the New Yorker. Swept up in the politics of the 1930s, she abandoned her neutral stance and invented a new form of journalism. She was forced to return to the United States at the start of World War II, and wrote remotely about the lives of French people under the Occupation. Her columns have recently been published in French under the title Paris est une guerre.
CULTURE
HOPPER À PARIS
The Birth of a Master
Edward Hopper, 24, realized one of his dreams when he moved to Paris in October 1906. An array of works from his French years, which have had little public exposure, were set to be exhibited at the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. at the end of May.
Table of contents
NEWS
Coronavirus Media Coverage: A Make-or-Break Moment. By Anthony Bulger
STAY IN
French Culture for Cooped-Up Francophiles. By Tracy Kendrick
IDEAS
Editorial: Our Money and Our Lives. By Guy Sorman
Robert Sebbag: “France and the United States Are Equally Flawed in Their Approach to the Coronavirus.” By Guy Sorman
ECONOMY
La Samaritaine Rises from the Ashes. By Jean-Gabriel Fredet
American Friends: A Friendship Worth Millions. By Benoît Georges
FASHION
The Gentleman’s Style: Cottoning to America’s Favorite Fabric! By Julien Scavini
Yves Saint Laurent: The Impossible Collection. By Marie-Dominique Deniau
BON APPETIT
Recipe of the Month: Ratatouille My Way. By Gérald Passedat
Wine Pairing. By Nicolas Blanc
CULTURE
Occupied France by Janet Flanner. By Sophie Joubert
Mirror-Images from France to the United States. By Clément Thiery
Hopper in Paris: The Birth of a Master. By Clément Thiery
The Eddy: Life Lived in Jazz. By Clément Thiery
Three Questions for Christine Ockrent. By Guénola Pellen
Maryse Condé: Writing the World’s Chaos. By Sophie Joubert
LANGUAGE
The Observer: The Plague Diaries, a Flight to Fantasy. By Anthony Bulger
The Wordsmith: « Je m’en lave les mains ». By Dominique Mataillet
UNKNOWN FRANCE
The LaM Museum: Thinking Outside the Box. By Gabriel Bertrand
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