LISA DAVIDSON is a writer living in Paris, having published in Village France, France par Excellence, and World Media Network, and authored Baboushka and Dedoushka, a memoir of the Russian Revolution. She works at Beaux-Arts Magazine and Gallimard.

ELIZABETH AYRE is the author of They Don't Take No for an Answer and editor of the journal Variations in Paris. She has written for the International Herald Tribune, The Independent, Village France and France par Excellence guidebooks.