Travel Desk / France
Paris, Provence, and Lyon
France
Blanche is in her spiritual homeland and knows it. Paris is the entry point, and Provence is the destination that undoes her, with the afternoon light she has been trying to recreate with candles since 1978. Hazel finds the French pharmacy the most compatible beauty institution in Europe and insists, with the authority of a woman who has read the evidence, that Lyon is the real food capital of France.
Coming soon
- Le Bristol Paris, the flagship stay
- La Bastide de Gordes, in Provence
- Cour des Loges, in Lyon
- La Maison Coutin, the small hotel in the Dordogne that is exactly right
- Annette Fontaine’s Paris, the fourth arrondissement and the ramekins she carried home in 1989, and Chocolat, the film she curates with a headnote she will not translate
- The French pharmacy, the most valuable beauty piece of the European season
- The Provence light, and the candle revelation
- The Caudalie Vinotherapie spa in Bordeaux
- The Paris beauty counter
- Lyon, the food capital Hazel insists on
- Bordeaux wine, from specific chateaux
- French cheese, taken seriously
- Air France, direct from several US cities
This hub opens lightly and fills over time.