title: Lessons from Madame Chic: 20 Stylish Secrets I Learned While Living in Paris
author:  Jennifer L. Scott 
description: Scott spent six months in Paris in 2001 as part of a foreign-exchange program. What she observed and learned fills this book. Many of these style secretsfor instance, how to eat and what to wearcan be found elsewhere, but Scotts 20 tips cover much more than the traditional diet-and-exercise and style-and-beauty. Extremely readable short chapters include recaps of the major points discussed in them, and those points include always looking presentable, realizing that clutter is not chic, cultivating your mind, and living life as a formal affair. Each of those lessons features tidbits Scott picked up from her two Parisian families, here called the Chics and the Bohemians. Throughout, two words appear most oftenquality and passion. --Barbara Jacobs
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  MAID IN PARIS
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter 1
  
  
  The apartment on Boulevard Saint-Germain was within easy walking distance of
  the Deux Magots. It was small, dim and hot.
  
  
  A man sat sprawled in a well-worn leather armchair, his feet extended full
  length in front of him, staring at the tips of his unpolished shoes. He was
  heavyset and sported a full beard. The corduroy jacket had once been green,
  but had faded to a bluish gray. His worn jeans, looking as if they had been
  painted on him, had a few picturesque rents in the sides of the legs. He
  reached up and raked half-clenched fingers through the thick mane of his hair.
  
  
  Finally, he pulled himself out of the chair, walked to the window, stared out
  over the roofs and chimney pots of the adjoining houses