![]() ![]() It’s a useful reminder that, while stereotypes are easy to sell - the French have described the series as a ragout of ridiculous clichés - the more complicated reality is often better. Leroy-Beaulieu has some very definite feelings about the myth of what she calls “the French bitch”: what is fact, what is fiction and what is worth considering. Sylvie Grateau in the love-to-hate-it Netflix series “Emily in Paris.” As the head of a luxury marketing agency who overdresses, smokes, mocks political correctness and oozes meanness, she is the extreme version of the “Parisienne,” disseminating style and scorn in equal measure.Īnd though she inhabits the role so completely that it has made her into a star at 57, Ms. ![]() PARIS - France may have gone back into lockdown last month, but it still has an international ambassador on small screens everywhere thanks to the actress Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, a.k.a.
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