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Review : France

A slice of Parisian luxury
From the Daily Mail
What's it to be, then?' asked the woman in Place Vendome of her friend. Like us, they had their noses pressed to the window of a leading Parisian jeweller. 'Nope,' replied her companion, dismissing a diamond-studded display, worth several small sheikhdoms. 'If I tell my husband I fancy anything, he'll just say: "Go ahead and get it."'
As I prepared a look of mingled disbelief, scorn and pity, calculated to root her to one of the most exclusive stretches of pavement in the world, I realised we could be playing the same game. Make-believe is in the very air of Paris. Ten minutes earlier, we had been lunching on the Place de la Madeleine, at the restaurant in Hediard, one of the most sumptuously stocked groceries in the world.
What, I wondered, would it be like to shop at Hediard every day, among towers of golden tea caddies and the seductive aromas of roasting coffee, pepper from Sarawak and chocolate of sinful blackness? Would I go for the wild mushrooms or chestnuts, the figs so temptingly presented in baskets of fresh leaves? In short, how would it feel to live here, however temporarily?
This wishful thinking had been brought on by a weekend sampling the Paris Residence, the French capital's first city centre time-ownership property. The Paris Residence looks like a small luxury hotel or a discreet London club. You can stay here on that basis, but there is no dining room and no self-catering either, unless you count lifting a phone to order 24-hour room service.
A gilded birdcage of a lift creaked me to the mini-suite, its view over the chic Rue de Berri framed in yellow silk curtains to match the canopied bed. I found a CD and mini-disc player in one cupboard, fresh grapes in the fridge. Sunk in the whirlpool bath, glass of bubbly in hand, I convinced myself with ease that Paris was where we belonged.
The friendly, young staff, mainly Scots, were eager to share ideas about local shopping, sightseeing or eateries where they had taken their mums.
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