Elaine Sciolino

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Parisians love the outdoors. Not the communing-with-nature kind of outdoors, but the never-ending exploration of the living museum that is the city they call home.

Like an elusive lover who clings to mystery, Paris never completely reveals herself. It is a process of perpetual seduction. Even 13 years after moving here, there is always beauty waiting to be discovered. As I walk around a corner, I still anticipate that something pleasurable might happen.

There are also new relationships to forge. In my neighborhood, not far from the scene of last Friday’s deadly terror attacks on the concert hall and restaurants, there is a half-mile long street called the Rue des Martyrs, or Market Street, crammed with 200 shops, ateliers and bistros.…  Seguir leyendo »

A 19th-century painting of St. Denis, carrying his head after decapitation. Credit The Art Archive/Kharbine-Tapabor/Art Resource, NY

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After his blockbuster trips to the United States and Cuba, there’s a strong case to be made that Pope Francis’ next visit should be closer to home: to France, known as the “eldest daughter of the church”, because of its religious union with Rome since early Christianity.

Yet the pope has yet to make a state visit here, and relations between France and the Vatican these days are tense.

In January 2014, President François Hollande met Francis in the Vatican and told him he would be welcomed in France. Ten months later the pope set foot on French soil, but not to minister to France’s Roman Catholics or to visit the Élysée Palace; it was a four-hour stop in Strasbourg to address the European Parliament.…  Seguir leyendo »