The Paris Deception Tour!

Paris in the Second World War is one of those subjects that can seem familiar until you begin to look closely. You know the broad outlines of occupation, resistance and complicity, and liberation. This tour offers something rarer: a way into that history through art, literature, and the lived environment of the city itself. Inspired by Bryn Turnbull’s The Paris Deception, it follows the routes of stolen art, the people who tried to save it, and the neighbourhoods where acts of courage, compromise, fear, and defiance played out day by day.

Then the story widens. A short train ride brings you to Champagne, where a region known around the world for celebration reveals another identity: a place shaped by resistance and surrender. In Reims, Épernay, and the surrounding countryside, our sommelier guide will take you through the millennia-old story of how this land came to bear such rich fruit. And…