Je m’appelle Stephen Clarke
By Stephen Clarke Bonjour, I’m Stephen Clarke, I’ve lived in Paris for about 15 years now and I’ve just accepted an invitation from the nice people at MyTelegraph to write a blog, which I intend to be...
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“J’adore English food,” the Frenchman told me. And he made a list, his mouth watering so much that it sounded as though he was gargling. Baked beans, puddings, cakes, triangular sandwiches, green peas,...
View ArticleBoar-n Free in the south of France
A friend on holiday in Gigaro, near Toulon in the south of France, sent me a link which made me even more envious that I am not where he is. It is a news item from Var Matin, the local paper in the...
View ArticleA life of luxury, all thanks to French trains
One of the great things about France (about which there are many great things, even if the French don’t always admit it) is that it sits on two climate zones. You can be sitting up north in Paris...
View ArticleWhy Parisan cyclists are all existentialists
Paris is home to existentialism, the complex philosophical doctrine about the ultimate meaningless of the universe that is in fact just a long-winded way of making France’s favourite gesture: the...
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