ParisTalks.com, offering customized Talks and Tours in Paris, dynamic content and professional Speaker services for your group or event, is a small group of “in-the-know” bi-lingual journalists, art historians, photographers, fashion and tourism experts passionate about Paris... who want to share that passion with you!

OUR VISITORS
Discerning international travelers, primarily from the U.S./U.K./Canada, in France for leisure or business. University, scholastic and corporate groups, wine societies, culinary institutes, couples, solo travelers, girlfriends, families, Travel Clubs, business executives, small private groups and organizations...

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ParisTalks.com is the creation of lifestyle editor and professional Speaker specializing in Paris, the French, and luxury travel Barbara Pasquet James.

With a background in university teaching and consulting to Fortune 500 and multi-national corporations, Barbara is the author of USAToday.com’s first Paris City Guide, expertly honing the guide through quarterly updates as Pop Culture Editor then Editor-at-Large for an award-winning AOL Franco-American e-zine for four years. A contributing editor for luxury lifestyle magazine Boulevard France and creator of acclaimed weekly travel column “Border Lines” (The American LLC - appeared in over 60 countries), Barbara wrote/co-produced “Coming To France!", a cross-cultural training film geared to foreign executives settling in France and later, created The Concept Lunch Paris, a series of lunchtime seminars. She has worked with the French Ministry of Tourism, the prestigious Relais & Châteaux group and, more recently, high-end tour packagers, designing distinctive tours and itineraries. Multi-lingual (M.A. in Applied Linguistics), she is an avid international traveler from the U.S. who has lived in Barcelona, London and, since 1991, Paris. Her writing and comments – on fine dining, travel, fashion and lifestyle - have appeared in numerous publications including The Robb Report, Boulevard France, The Georgetowner, The American LLC, National Review Online, New York Arts Magazine, Paris Notes and USA Today.

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My heartfelt gratitude for the outpouring of support from so many sectors, and for the many (unexpected) invitations! BPJ

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