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But at its heart, Nouvelle Vague is still a Linklater hangout film through and through; his flaneurs this time are just the likes of Godard (Guillaume Marbeck), François Truffaut (Adrien Rouyard), Jean-Paul Belmondo (Aubry Dullin), and Suzanne Schiffman (Jodie Ruth-Forest).
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Tomris Laffly, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
San Juan, Puerto Rico With its blue cobblestoned streets and homes splashed with cheery pastel colors, Old San Juan is a flaneur’s paradise.
—Amanda Eyre Ward, Bon Appétit, 19 Mar. 2025
These best-selling books display the trenchant wit of a flaneur strolling through Babylon.
—Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
Being a flaneur suggests also a freedom—to roam, to go in whichever direction one chooses, unencumbered by the authorities.
—Anandi Mishra, The Atlantic, 30 July 2022
But the hotel offers plenty of alternatives to dropping your euros, including a Dior spa, a calming pool, and a ground-floor terrace bar for prime flaneur-watching, all designed by LVMH favorite Peter Marino and realized by his squad of about 600 French artisans.
—Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Dec. 2021
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Tomris Laffly, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
San Juan, Puerto Rico With its blue cobblestoned streets and homes splashed with cheery pastel colors, Old San Juan is a flaneur’s paradise.
—Amanda Eyre Ward, Bon Appétit, 19 Mar. 2025
These best-selling books display the trenchant wit of a flaneur strolling through Babylon.
—Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
Being a flaneur suggests also a freedom—to roam, to go in whichever direction one chooses, unencumbered by the authorities.
—Anandi Mishra, The Atlantic, 30 July 2022
But the hotel offers plenty of alternatives to dropping your euros, including a Dior spa, a calming pool, and a ground-floor terrace bar for prime flaneur-watching, all designed by LVMH favorite Peter Marino and realized by his squad of about 600 French artisans.
—Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Dec. 2021
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“Flaneur.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flaneur. Accessed 27 Dec. 2025.
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