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RETHINKING PARIS

he Parisian woman has been mythologized for generations, flattened to a cigarette-smoking, black-clad figure riding a bicycle with a baguette in the basket. She’s also invariably French-born and white. In The New Parisienne (Abrams, 2020), AFAR contributor recasts the archetype. She highlights a diverse group of more than

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