When Toma’s husband was transferred to Paris in 2000, she left a career in advertising to move to France. The first weekend in her newly adopted country, she boarded the Metro, disembarked at the end of Line 4, and discovered the wonderful world of Parisienne markets—and a whole new career, too. Above: A colorful nineteenth-century Murano glass chandelier evinces the work of a skilled craftsman.
