Behind a glass case of colorful macaroons stands trés chic Charlotte Reymond. Her striped French sailor’s shirt shows from beneath her apron as she selects pastries for a customer. Victor Navarre, a true Parisian, serves coffees and crèpes to those seated at the espresso bar. He points to a map of Paris posted on a brick wall and says that this French pâtisserie, La Maison Navarre, is not meant to be a replica of something that already exists. It is neither a copycat of a Parisian counterpart nor an Americanized version of French culture. It is a place unto itself.
Reymond and Navarre, both French-born, came to Ne
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