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'I felt that the only thing I was on earth to do was to write' A couple of months ago Mavis Gallant had a dream. A messenger came to the door carrying a cardboard box with a lid on it. On top was written "Mavis Gallant" in big...
PARIS (Reuters) - A French murder suspect who caused a media sensation after escaping from prison in a cardboard box and evading a huge manhunt during weeks on the run, has been recaptured, the interior ministry said Friday.
First holiday memory? It was a different kind of holiday to the ones I'm used to, but it was great to see my children's faces when they got to have lunch with Princess Belle. It was the first time we had been to Cornwall and it...
Jeanne-Claude met Christo in Paris after he had fled, via Austria, from the intolerable restrictions of the communist bloc in Bulgaria. The year was 1958. From then on these two brave, determined and resourceful artists worked...
Thierry Tilly looks like a geography teacher or a chartered accountant, or a French version of Bill Gates. He claims, variously, to be a Nato "master-spy", a confidant of presidents and prime ministers, a financial genius, a...
PARIS, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Supermodel Daul Kim left messages on her Web site saying she was "depressed" and "lonely" before her body was found hanging in her Paris apartment, police said. Police said the 20-year-old South Korean...
His shocking crime? Michelin's latest Tokyo edition went on sale in Japan on Friday, and Naret has been in town this week promoting what many consider to be the bible of restaurant guides. This time, Michelin's undercover team...
A man with an automatic rifle has opened fire on a car near a Paris train station, killing one man and wounding two others, police said. The shooting took place near the Gare du Nord train station, hub for trains to London and...
PARIS, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris said this week Norway would be the first European state to return to economic health. The Norway Post reported Friday that Norway was...
Andrew Testa for The New York Times Au Rocher de Cancale, at its present location on Rue Montorgueil since 1846. A marvelous painting of a gourmand at his table hangs in the Musée Carnavalet in Paris — a portly, pink-faced...
