Paris for Business and Pleasure

Seeing Paris is experiencing the old and the new, and having a relaxing time.

The wall of Cedric et la Chocolaterie features cascading liquid chocolate. Alan Behr/TNS

By Alan Behr Tribune News Service

Christmas decorations were still brightening the Place Vendôme in January as I went shirt shopping at Charvet, the premium men’s furnishings company located just north of the square. The last white blankets from a once-in-a-decade snowfall were receding, allowing the Paris that the world loves to reassert itself.