O Chateau Blog | Stuff Parisians Like. A blog by Olivier Magny

In Paris, academic performance is the main – if not the only – determinant of intelligence. Consequently, people who did graduate from a Grande Ecole are considered superior beings.
‘Faire de bonnes études’ in France means only two things: ‘faire médecine’ or ‘faire une grande école’. All the rest is crap.
Les Grandes Ecoles are a highly [...]

Some may think that Parisians live in Paris. They don’t.
They live in doubt.
Parisians doubt.
They doubt everything. All the time.
Truthfully, the Parisian mostly doubts good things. Bad things are rarely questioned for the Parisian knows that bad is part of life.
Doubt is a structuring element of Parisian thinking. Doubt offers one of these double win situation [...]