The people of Paris have responded in a show of peaceful defiance this evening (Paris time) to the barbaric terrorist attack that has sent shock waves around the world.

Astonishingly it was only last week that France finally repealed a law dating from 1799 which banned women from wearing pants in public. The original law, introduced just after the Revolution by Paris’s then police chief, was intended to prevent women from dressing like men, lest they be mistaken for revolutionaries. The law was later […]

Shay Stafford went from tapping down the aisle at Woolies to twirling in a banana costume in BrisVegas. Yet when she became a showgirl at Paris’ famed Moulin Rouge, she found love. David Leser tells her story. “I will need see your breasts,” the ballet mistress declared matter-of-factly. “Now?” the young woman replied. “Here?” “Yes,” […]

Visiting Paris? Then read our Paris hot list from the little black books of those in the know and insure you’re armed with the best addresses when in the French capital, writes Mike Dolan.