Geraldine Provost

June arrives in Paris with the city at its most vibrant. From contemporary art inside Les Invalides and all-night cultural celebrations during Nuit Blanche to world-class tennis at Roland-Garros, candlelit château evenings, garden festivals, and fashion events, the French capital offers an extraordinary calendar of experiences for visitors and residents alike. Here is our curated selection of the most compelling events of the month. The Changing of the Republican Guard One of Paris’s most...

Most visitors arrive at the Richelieu site of the Bibliothèque nationale de France with a destination in mind. Some come for the magnificent Oval Reading Room, whose soaring dome has become one of Paris's most photographed interiors. Others are drawn by the institution's extraordinary collections: manuscripts, maps, prints, coins, photographs, and centuries of accumulated knowledge preserved at the heart of the capital. Few expect to discover a garden, and fewer still realize that this garden...

Beyond Hotels: The Search for Atmosphere There is a particular intimacy to arriving somewhere unfamiliar and immediately noticing the home behind the destination. Not the hotel lobby carefully curated for transient admiration, nor the polished terraces designed for postcards, but the quieter language of how people actually live: the patina of antique parquet floors in Paris, the layered textures of a Normandy farmhouse, or the restrained elegance of a New Orleans salon opening onto a shaded...