The New Paris Dispatch

The New Paris Dispatch

Why I love August in Paris

+ A few reading and listening recs

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Lindsey Tramuta
Aug 19, 2025
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August in Paris, the most elastic of times. With so many residents gone, having fled all the concrete and responsibility for European beaches or exotic adventures much further afield, the days go slack. There is no urgency. The city unclenches, as do I.

A very sleepy Buttes Chaumont

This once-a-year palpable slowdown is a lazy trance I forget I desperat…

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