BONJOUR
Once seen as the egotistical move of a billionaire, Francois Pinault’s museum has turned out to be a fantastic addition, and a welcome one after lockdown.
Erin Zaleski is a Paris-based reporter for The Daily Beast. She has written for Newsweek, Agence France-Presse, Link TV, Bustle, and other outlets.
Send her tips: tips@thedailybeast.com. You can also use our anonymous document submission system, SecureDrop. Click here to find out how.
MON DIEU
It wouldn’t be an understatement to say that the famously lively French capital is shivering through one of its darkest winters in history.
MALAISE
As a new lockdown begins, a shaken France is facing what may be another side effect of the coronavirus: a heightened risk of terrorist attacks.
TANGLED WEB
The Daily Beast has learned Epstein bankrolled a French organization whose executives have ties to Jack Lang, who decades ago defended pedophiles and who is pals with Woody Allen.
LIBRARY PORN
Many of the its riches were seized in the Revolution and then ferreted into the library which, astonishingly, stayed open even as the guillotine continued to fall across the river.
WRITING ON THE WALL
Wilfrid A. used to write “Love roams the streets” all over Montmartre. Thousands of strangers were charmed. But not dozens of women who say he assaulted or raped them.
C’EST LA VIE
As the city slowly reopens, I tried to experience a typical tourist’s weekend.
LE CONFINEMENT
Diaries of privileged literati inflamed smoldering class resentments that always lie near the surface here, and are only likely to get worse as the COVID-19 crisis drags on.
FRENCH WEINER
Paris’ would-be mayor bids his election campaign adieu after all-too-revealing Anthony Weiner-esque messages hit social media. He has neither confirmed nor denied they’re of him.
CREEPY
For decades, Gabriel Matzneff got a pass from French culture mavens as he extolled the pleasures of sex with underage boys and girls. No longer.
