Thirza vallois biography

Thirza Vallois is an expert on all things Parisian.
She has lived in Paris most of her life and holds several degrees from the Sorbonne, including the most prestigious Agrégation.
I worked like an archeologist, patiently uncovering the layers of history lying under the city's cobblestones, before putting together the.

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Thirza Vallois is an expert on all things Parisian. She has lived in Paris most of her life and holds the most prestigious doctoral-level Agrégation degree from the Sorbonne. Her "Around and About Paris" books have been universally acclaimed as the best travel books ever written on Paris, her "Romantic Paris" as the most exquisite. Her latest book, about the last hidden corner of France, "Aveyron, A Bridge to French Arcadia" was hailed as a revelation. She is also the author of the Paris entry to the Encarta Encyclopaedia. Thirza Vallois lectures on Paris and France worldwide. Her audience includes museums, arts clubs, universities, libraries and various cultural institutions.She contributes regularly to television, radio and the international press. She has appeared on BBC, PBS, the Travel Channel, CNN, Discovery, the French Cultural Channel, has been aired on scores of radio stations in the US and Britain and has contributed articles to The Financial Times, United Airlines’ Hemispheres, Condé Nast Traveller, among others. Her “Three Perfect Days in

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by: Thirza Vallois

My first encounter with Paris, in the 1950s and as a very young teenager, came as a great disappointment. Landing at the Gare du Nord, the first Paris I saw was shabby and unappetising, light years away from the “City of Light”. “Where ARE the Dior models from Vogue Magazine?” I asked my mother in frustration. A cab driver soon whisked us off to a more flattering Paris, but even aboard a “Paris by Night” coach and horse-drawn carriages (long since gone), the city failed to live up to the mystique I had anticipated. No way could it live up to London. Based on that first visit and the few that followed, I have no idea what prompted me to pick up Paris for my student years. It would be interesting to psycho-analyse why I chose to settle here for good. There was more to it than just meeting and marrying a Parisian. It was more like the slow process of falling in love with someone one at first actively dislikes. It is one of those perfidious tricks that fate plays insidiously on our hearts.

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Complementing my daily blog interviews, today’s Author Spotlight, the ninety-sixth, is of travel writer Thirza Vallois.

Thirza Vallois is an expert on all things Parisian and lectures worldwide on Paris and France. She has lived in Paris most of her life and holds several post-graduate degrees from the Sorbonne, including the most prestigious agrégation. She is the author of the internationally acclaimed Around and About Paris series, Romantic Paris Aveyron, and A Bridge to French Arcadia, as well as the Paris entry of the Encarta Encyclopaedia. Thirza Vallois has appeared on PBS, BBC, the Travel Channel, the French Cultural Channel, Discovery and CNN, has spoken on radio in the UK, the US and France, and has worked as a consultant for the BBC. She contributes stories regularly to the international press. Her award-winning Three Perfect Days in Paris story was published in United Airlines’ Hemispheres and aired on their international flights. (Photo of Thirza by Theodore D Robinson)

And now from the author herself:

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