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The 2nd Giveaway: Sisley Nutritive Lip Balm – 2 winners

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Take a Tour of the Louvre Couture Exhibit: Join TSLL in photos and videos of this special exhibit

For the first time in its history, and it sounds odd to even write this, le Musée de Louvre had a fashion exhibit. Louvre Couture opened up to the public on January 24th with a grand Met Gala-like red carpet event during the first week of March. On display until August 24th, find 99 pieces […]

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Walking on the Côte de Granit Rose in Perros-Guirec

En Bretagne, il ne pleut pas. C’est le soleil qui transpire.(In Brittany, it doesn’t rain. It’s the sun that sweats.” Finding home away from home. For some of us, we fortuitously find it early in life, for others, it takes seeing and living in oodles of places that just don’t feel quite right for us […]

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Why I Love Driving in France + Discover Cars is my go-to for my Rental Car

To drive in France is to be reminded how peaceful driving can be. While I always take a train to take me out of Paris, arriving in a destination of the region I will be staying, during my visits in 2018 and my current visit, as I stayed for multiple weeks previously and one week […]

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Visiting Foire de Chatou: Antiquités, Brocante & Galerie d’Art in March (and how to take the train from Paris, photos included!)

A treasure hunter’s paradise. Foire de Chatou, a semi-annual event that takes place in early March and late September stretching into October, one full week every six months, is an event to plan your trip to Paris, or anywhere in France, for that matter, around. I must confess, it was by happenstance that my trip […]

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The 1st Giveaway! Angelina’s Chocolat Chaud — 3 winners

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Visiting Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, March 2025

The home of the original Claude Monet painting that prompted the creation of the term Impressionism – Impression, Sunrise, 1872: Musée Marmottan Monet. The review that is given credit for creating the term is art critic Louis Leroy who wrote in the publication Le Charivari on April 25th in 1874 the article “Exhibition des Impressionnistes”, […]

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Bienvenue à la 10e Édition Annuelle de la Semaine Française à la TSLL !

The baguette has been picked up at the market, a French cheese is ready to be enjoyed, and French music may or may not be playing here at Le Papillon while I type 😉🇫🇷. Welcome to TSLL’s 10th Annual French Week! I am so tickled that you are here to join in the festivities of […]

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This & That: August 8, 2025

Cookbooks full of delicious, approachable, seasonal fare, a new novel that takes us back to 18th century London with a mystery to solve and a strong female protagonist determined to break from society’s limitations for women, a new book that speaks to the heart of what it means to live a life of contentment – […]

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407: The Joys of Living Alone —By Choice or Circumstance

“’I think that’s just how life panned out. I had children and it was difficult to have a relationship with a man who was not the father. And I started thinking, OK, I’ll take care of the children and then when they’re grown up, I’ll be available for a partner. But then I found, I […]

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