quirky, yes the Belgians are similar about food. If anyone ever visits Antwerp and wants and amazing meal go to 'Het Gebaar', it's only open for lunch and it's beyond delicious. The chef is originally a pastry chef (and the desserts are beyond amazing, do not skip, skip dinner instead as you'll be stuffed) and his approach to savoury food is like that of a pastry chef. Best to reserve ahead as it's in a tiny little Swiss cottage that was part of the medicinal garden of a (still functioning) hospital, it's a lovely little oasis in the middle of the city. Like most Belgian restaurants they're child-friendly, they just only have a choice of pancakes or pancakes.
mrshod, I should probably point out I break rank with the French when it comes to bags. It's where the architect in me comes out more pronounced, I like minimal, contemporary, well crafted bags. Pic 1 is my most recent purchase and am heavily dithering over getting Pic 2 but can't figure out in which colour (it's currently between navy, burgundy and boring black, the pic is in brick which I also sort of like but don't think I'll like in RL) but it's on BF offer so can only dither until tomorrow night. Pic 3 is the bag I wore out today (but I have a limited edition version that I can't find pics for, it's somewhat different but the same model).
I used to buy one nice bag every few years or so (usually in celebration, achievement or similar, connected to something special or worth remembering) but I feel the prices have gone crazy in recent years. The RRP have been increasing at such high rates it's become a little insane and the flip side is that so many discount their bags to 70% or they all end up in outlets. It used to be impossible to wait out the sales and hope for a 30% discount, these days you easily can, even in popular colours like black. I think it's tainted the 'value' of these bags twice over and a lot of brands have gone down the drain quality wise along with it. I much preferred the more accessible RRP with minimal discounts than what we have now so I've been gravitating much more towards new talent recently (provided it's manufactured in Europe, preferably Italy or France, though there's a bit of allowance for South Korea) than the established old guard and I'm really enjoying what I'm discovering.
So in conclusion, for the true French/Parisian look you're best off not following my style (although pic 3 is quite a popular style there) but happy to talk benches any time 
I have a lead on some great Italian bags at more accesible prices (I usually maintain a high minimum threshold to avoid just buying lots of throwaway bags and put it all towards one or two good bags, not saying it's impossible to get a good bag with great design at lower price point but it's far harder a chore and I may very well break my own rules over these bags).
Enid, similar to LE is Monika Blunder. There's also Harry does Makeup (but haven't really watched that in a really long time). There's also a French model Pardon My French but she's co-opted a bit by lots of sponsors (think she uses Revlon or similar exclusively per a modeling campaign contract) and a lot of it is youtube nonsense. Don't think she's been active for a good while either.
jane, I absolutely loved that exhibition, suddenly it all became so clear to me that the original CD worked in such close relation with B&W photography, it was made for the lens, not life, that's why the silhouettes are that striking. It's funny since we're seeing a bit of a resurgence of that in recent times with Instagram and why there are so many bonkers items out there specifically made to catch the eye of the viewer on Instagram, more colour and texture based but an interesting parallel. Of course, CD did it much much better.
Uploading pics depends on what platform you're on, on mobile it's the little attachment paperclip button, I don't use the app so not sure how to do that one, desktop is pretty easy to spot and self-explanatory. If you're a new user I think they were changing the rules that didn't allow them to upload pictures for a certain time period or number of posts.
Oh, and because I'm free to rant about it here, I will. I found a magical scarf... seriously it's magical and therefore stupidly expensive. A 100% cashmere one did I not mention never seeing the point of those and from Isabel Marant, the stupid expensive main line. Argh... it made me look so good and as if I was looking in one of those deceiving mirrors, there was waifish tall me. The thing is bloody more expensive than the bag I'm dithering over and it's a light cream almost pinkish beige colour, ever so practical. I'm insane. If I can blur my face I shall show you all a pic and you can all confirm my insanity.