Welcome to Franchement, a subjective and unreliable account of living in France. Nice to meet you, I’m Shelby. I moved to France in 2019 because my marketing career in LA was having an adverse effect on my mental health and I wanted to travel more and eat better cheese. Now I write about living in Paris to make people laugh, and to explore big ideas through small things that happen in everyday life, also just to get attention, probably.

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