I have saved my new favorite, Le Vin des Rues, for last.
In the first tableau, in the Tessé Room, a mannequin poses as Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Marie Antoinette's favorite portraitist.
It may be that the best recipe I ever got came from M. Picot, the patron of Le Voltaire, my favorite Paris restaurant.
To top it off, I don't go anywhere without a spritz of my favorite Le Labo fragrance- usually Neroli 36.
Under the name Frédéric Lansac, Mr. Mulot would later direct some of France's most famous pornographic features, including the cult favorite "Le Sexe Qui Parle" (1975).
For lunch on election day, "Monsieur Normal" scoffed down duck terrine with asparagus, beef filet with potatoes and a strawberry tart at Le Central, a favorite brasserie for local politicians in Tulle, the small, working-class town in central France that Hollande represented in parliament.
The washed-denim jackets, which are available for men and women, bear three different lines: "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" (the title of Carson McCullers's debut novel and one of Ms. Le-Tan's favorite books); "Art Is for Mobsters" (a personal belief of Jean Touitou, A.P.C.'s congenitally droll designer); and "People Never Notice Anything," courtesy of Holden Caulfield.
Signs drawn in air-brushed paints announced rides and games that went by the very un-French names of Cash, Jungle, Rainbow, Las Vegas, Magic Duck and my favorite, Le Top, a game that has you throwing a ball into the open mouth of either Richard Nixon or Jimmy Carter.
The caricature of him as a solitary eccentric, chain-smoking at the back of a cafe on the rue Didot or in Le Sphinx, his favorite brothel, belies all accounts of him as amusing, cultivated, ironic, deeply loyal to his friends and a good talker.
Mozart wrote the sonata in 1783, the same year that Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Marie Antoinette's favorite, painted the queen in nothing but a mousseline chemise dress, scandalizing the French academy with its lusty casualness.
