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FABULOUS TIMES, PLACES AND PEOPLE

GAY PARIS IN THE 20s and 30s: Background, People, Places, Personalities, Hospitality, Restaurants, Food, Wine, Pleasure, Style, Fashion, Arts, Poetry, Music and Adventure. According to Maximillien de Lafayette.

Mon Dieu! To be and live in Paris during "Les annees folles", between the end of  1917 and 1934, especially if you were an eccentric artist, an intellectual adventurer, a frou-frou femme fatale, a genius or an independently wealthy American, willing to spend a lot of money on arts, dating and women. Ask Madonna, Paulette Attie, Penelope de Vassy and Louise de Chambertin. Really "real" America's la crème de la crème was there. The "real" American high society, the privileged class, the snobs (Although it was too early for the Americans to know how to be a snob), les bourgeois,  wealth filthy characters, the hustlers with a style, the scandalous adventurous women, the schmoozer and the cruisers, the handsome gigolos, the champagne, the caviar, the kisses and the misses, sex, the drama and all the "chic" pleasures of the era. Hemingway was here. Paramour Stein too. Why Paris - what made everybody want to come here and create, and drink, and dance, and paint, and write stories or invent them? Women? obnoxious, over-cultured and over-sophisticated Frenchmen? Bubbly champagne? Sinfully good wine? Nice plat de fromage? A nostalgia? A fantasy? A new social, political and artistic era? A modern Parisian revolution? Yes! Yes! All of the above!

19. NEW YORK'S BEST PHOTOS AND  BEST PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE MONTH, BY SHOSHANNA ROZEN.

21.WORLD HOSPITALITY CELEBRITIES OF THE MONTH, BY ARLETTE LAGRANGE.

Mireille Guiliano (Meer-ray Julie-ano) is president and CEO of Clicquot, Inc., the firm she helped found in 1984 and was its first employee. Today she is recognized as the driving force in building the company's highly regarded national organization, developing its portfolio of ultra-premium wines, and igniting the remarkable growth and brand recognition of its flagship Champagne Veuve Clicquot. Educated in Paris, where she studied French and English literature at the Sorbonne and languages at the Institut Supérieur...

22.THE VERY BEST OF NEW YORK: ENTERTAINERS, SINGERS, ARTISTS, ART EVENTS, SHOWS.

23.AMERICANS VERSUS FOREIGNERS.    What foreigners like and dislike most about Americans?! 

24.THE LEGENDARY HOTELS. THE VERY ELITE, LA CRÈME DE LA CRÈME, BY MAXIMILLIEN de LAFAYETTE.

Not because, they offer their guests, the state of the art computers gadgets, communications facilities, fitness and training centers, Tantric massages,  Yoga lessons, and all the silly stuff and mimics "nouveaux riches" are impressed by. Non, cher monsieur. The classy aristocratic hotels in Paris  are not crafted for those who made a fast buck on Wall Street or traded online while joking around Central Park. These hotels are the jewels of Paris. They are the world's very elite, because they have class, aristocratic flair, a real blue blood signature...because they did not change their Louis XIV chandelier for  high tech light spots and buzzing neon...

They are the real thing! Furnitures  are of "de l'epoque", the culinary flair is Cordon Bleu de rigeur with "un soupcon" de Babette...Because every single detail, from the curve of an antique Louis Treize chair, to the  Style Empire linen broderies, and from the signed Gobelin's friendship with an unspoiled historic hanging wall...and from the choice of art objects to their discreet marriage to the colors whispering in the fire place and the fatale scent of Parisian coquettes

 

THE WORLD'S BEST HOTELS. WHAT IS THEIR SECRET? By Maximillien de Lafayette An in-depth article about the successful operations of the world's best hospitality establishments, including their guest services, food, beverage, accommodations and "what make them" la crème de la crème.