How to Set a Table à la Française: The French Art of the Table
There are dinners à la bonne franquette, often last minute, where good friends are happy to gather around the kitchen table, or even the coffee table, in great simplicity. And there are dinners, ju...
AOP Butter Croissant - Parisian history, French savoir‑vivre, recipe
Viennese origins - Marie‑Antoinette The croissant arrived in France with Marie‑Antoinette, daughter of the Emperor of Austria who became Queen of France. Nostalgic for Viennese treats, she is said...
A Certain Art of Living According to Queen Marie-Antoinette
Marie-Antoinette, the last queen of the Ancien Régime, embodies far more than a tragic fate: she symbolizes an art of living that is refined, playful, intelligent, free, and profoundly modern. Far ...
