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Letters From Paris

TMN editor Rosecrans Baldwin’s ongoing column about life in France, where Velibs and baguettes mix with language gaffes, pet turtles, and the right to disagree with everyone you meet.

When It Sizzles

The weather is heating up in Paris, and our editor and correspondent ROSECRANS BALDWIN is besieged by turtles, gastroenterologists, gay bars, and bureaucratic customer service. Another adventure from the land of France. (Letters From Paris | June 19, 2008)

Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down

Locals agree: The city of clouds is a bust. Between family illness, Fashion Week, and homeless people throwing picnics, ROSECRANS BALDWIN continues his series of letters from France. (Letters From Paris | March 19, 2008)

Bonne Année

If a package enters Purgatory, will it still be delivered? ROSECRANS BALDWIN recounts the holiday season from France, with notes on the postal system, sexy elves, and Christmas trees hung with giant stilettos. (Letters From Paris | January 10, 2008)

Le Coq Sportif

The third letter in ROSECRANS BALDWIN’s series from France, in which Parisian attitudes toward the sporting life turn up in politics, philosophy, and what fashionable joggers choose to wear for “le running.” (Letters From Paris | October 17, 2007)

Language Arts

A second letter in the batch from ROSECRANS BALDWIN about moving to France, where he discovers, much to his co-workers’ amusement, how to make faux pas in another tongue. (Letters From Paris | July 25, 2007)

The City of Clouds

The first letter in a series from TMN co-editor-in-chief ROSECRANS BALDWIN after moving with his wife to the French capital, where colds are defeated by eating the local pollen and stoves are repaired with cream. (Letters From Paris | June 15, 2007)


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