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Caroline de Maigret, the model and music producer, is an expert on all things chic. And, as one of the authors of "How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits," she's penned the definitive guide to mastering French cool. But, to get the inside scoop on whether these tips can truly transform us into the devil-may-care femmes we long to be, Harper's Bazaar executive editor Laura Brown test drove them first.

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00:00Oh god, I'm so thirsty.
00:02No, it's better not to use a straw, darling. It's not very chic.
00:05You're not twelve years old anymore.
00:23So I'm here with, this is Caroline de Maigret. How do I say it properly?
00:26Caroline de Maigret.
00:28Oh shit, try again.
00:29Caroline.
00:29Caroline de Maigret.
00:31De Maigret.
00:31I think you're really stylish and French.
00:35And I got this book, you wrote some of it.
00:38This is my favorite page, okay?
00:40Which is, it says, always look as if you are gazing at the sunset,
00:44even during rush hour on the metro,
00:47even when picking up frozen pizza from the supermarket.
00:51How do I do that?
00:52You're inspired, you're thinking about something more important
00:55than where you are right now.
00:57Something deep.
01:00You're smiling, that's not good.
01:02Did I get sexier?
01:03Here's the other one I've got to learn.
01:04Okay.
01:05The pout.
01:07Over it equals sexy.
01:09You know, you're a little bored.
01:11Okay.
01:11A little bored.
01:13Because you have to pretend that you would be happier somewhere else reading a book,
01:18which you don't have to read.
01:19I can't read.
01:22Yeah.
01:23Yeah.
01:24Yeah?
01:24Yeah, that's quite good.
01:25Do it again.
01:30God.
01:31Okay, tell me, give me your heart, your like,
01:33like if you had to like tell a simple Australian girl, such as myself,
01:38a hit list of how to be Brissian.
01:39Yeah.
01:40Well, it would be not to care about it.
01:45The idea would be to stop having complex about what you can do and not do
01:50and to stop running after perfection.
01:53Because it does not exist.
01:54Perfection does not exist.
01:55So just give it up.
01:57You know?
01:58I swear to God I got it this morning.
02:00I was perfect at like 10am.
02:02And it's over now.
02:04Who told you that?
02:05Me in the mirror.
02:06I'll go eat some French pastries.
02:08Because we're at a French bakery and you're French.
02:10That's very sweet.
02:12What the hell is that?
02:14A cronet?
02:16Do you think cronets are French?
02:18Cronet.
02:19They're like a thing.
02:19Nut.
02:20Cronet.
02:21Cronut.
02:21It's not...
02:23I'm hungry.
02:24I could totally eat all of this.
02:26Well, no you can't because French women don't get fat.
02:30So I'll just eat it by myself.
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