Versailles

Sofia's Marie: A Royal Pain

Marie Antoinette was loudly booed in Cannes. Well, why not?  read more »

The Mores, the Merrier! Primer for a New Politesse


Old-fashioned etiquette is alive and well and living in Palm Beach.  read more »

Grand Hotel Dining: Can Plaza Athénée Keep a Secret?

"Actually, it's rather nice that it's so quiet," said my companion one afternoon after the only othe  read more »

Test Ban Treaty Was No Versailles

Did you ever think that in this last quarter of the lastyear of the last century of the second mille  read more »

Phyllis Stine Copes With the Paris Heat Wave

July 17. Dear Diary: C'est moi , Phyllis Stine. C'est moi . Where was I?  read more »

Phyllis Stine's Diary: Story Proposals for Harper's Bazaar

J une 28. Flight 199 to Los Angeles, American Airlines. Dear Diary: C'est moi , Phyllis Stine.  read more »