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...Nobuko Matsumiya, a koto player, says her performances in the Metro have helped her book dates above ground, at concert halls in France and across Europe. "It's a good way to meet people," she says. Adds L?onor Lepr?tre, a Parisian soprano trying to make a name for herself: "It's a great public: if they like your music they stay; if they don't, they just walk away." Last year the RATP released Correspondances, an album featuring the Metro's best performers. Like any good showbiz impresario, Naso makes space in his otherwise cramped office for a couple...
...Paris to Berlin. "It's a French icon like the beret or the baguette," he says. Dargnies offers three options: the Essential Tour, a review of the city's must-see monuments (1 hr. 30 min., $90); the three-hour Magic Tour ($155), which covers a wider selection of Parisian attractions; and the Unique Tour, an ? la carte option allowing daylong excursions in and around Paris ($178 for the first three hours and $47 for every additional hour). Each car comes with a chauffeur and accommodates three tightly packed passengers. www.4roues-sous-1parapluie.com
Jean-Louis Borloo has made a career of tackling lost causes. As a Parisian lawyer he rescued failing businesses. In 1988 he revived a bankrupt soccer team. And as mayor of Valenciennes from 1989 to 2002, he resurrected the moribund former steel town by revamping neighborhoods, attracting a Toyota factory, building a theater, and planning a regional tram whose first rail will be laid this week. Can this miracle worker save France's embattled conservative government after the party's rout in last month's regional elections? It was evidently with that hope in mind that President Jacques Chirac plucked...
DIED. GENEVIEVE, 83, Parisian chanteuse best known as the Tonight show regular who would bat her eyes at host Jack Paar while struggling with the English language; in Los Angeles. Before making her Tonight debut in 1957, on its second show, she ran a tiny nightclub in Paris where she cooked, served, sang and was spotted by an agent who invited her to America...
...appeared as if my experience was for naught. I thought the girls and I had shared a “moment”; instead, like Carrie and Petrovsky in their Parisian hotel suite, we were only sharing a room...