Admiral Cod

I acquired my first pipe in 1997. An Austrian friend from boarding school bought it for me from a tobacconist in Covent Garden. The model w...

© 2009 Monsieur

Nicky Haslam has found himself at the centre of the most interesting circles wherever he is--at parties, opening nights, royal weddings. In ...

Manhattan, München, & Martini Für den Fall, daß du einmal in die Situation gerätst, einem Barkeeper oder einer Aushilfsbedienung erkläre...

I thought it would last my time - The sense that, beyond the town, There would always be fields and farms, Where the village louts could cli...

If you were to add the name Dafydd Jones to the list of illustrious society photographers including Cecil Beaton, Lord Litchfield, and Slim ...

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Den Kramern lasst ihr Gold, Den Ruhm den Schlächtern, Bekkent Euch zu den Verächtern, Die schwertlos ringen um den Hohen Preis.

We attended a Bocelli concert tonight. It was an occasion I will not soon forget.

Every man dedicates his life to an ideal, a cause. A strong, well-balanced body is essential for dealing with the hazards and variable proce...

One of the drawbacks of living in Southern California is the dearth of occasions on which I can deploy my heavy outerwear. I am referring to...

Do you work under a female boss? I am not referring only to the bedroom, but to the office. Women managers, I have found over the years, are...

Jean Raspail (1925-): Frenchman, writer, traveller, explorer, thinker, King of Patagonia, prophet of demographic disaster. This (above) is h...

The Three-Day Blow (1925) "Nick stopped and picked up a Wagner apple from beside the road, shiny in the brown grass from the rain. He ...