Paris

Paris – Two former Hermes employees went on trial near Paris on Thursday for making crocodile handbags copied from the French luxury leader's designs and selling them to Japan...The girlfriend of one of the employees and three Japanese nationals are also accused in the case in which between 100 and 200 handbags along with belts were sold to Japan for a total of EUR 17,000, lawyers said.

Mitsuko Zahar is a Japanese/..well Japarisian Journalist who lives in the Marais…etc,etc

A Frenchman has set new standards in the art of origami. Eric Josiel, who began to develop his skills when he lost his job as a printing company manager during the last recession, spends up to two weeks to create each figure and his work can sell for as much as €5,000 (£4,400).

A Taiwanese woman's ambition to kiss 100 men in Paris has become an overnight web sensation after she provided details of the quest on her much-visited blog.

These men and women belong to an army of environmentalists who have made it their job to rid Paris' legendary monuments and streets of cigarette butts, food scraps, dog droppings, and a host of other indignities. But most of the volunteers are not in fact French – they're Japanese.