THE FACT THAT I wanted to stay at the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris because of the French TV show Dix Pour Cent tells you a lot about me as a lesbian.
In the penultimate episode of the series, aired as on Netflix, Sigourney Weaver travels to Paris to meet with producers for a film role and stays at the Hôtel de Crillon—in the best suite with the best view, of course—and proceeds to flounce around the city in gorgeous clothes eating gorgeous food. This is the Paris vacation of my dreams. However, there’s a different main character who really allures me, intrigues me, and makes me want to embrace the various facets of myself, but in more glamorous lighting: the talent agent played by Camille Cottin. You see, for most of her life, Cottin’s character was a confident, hard-partying, fast-loving seductress in the Paris lesbian nightlife scene. By the end of the series, she’s a tired, overstretched, often disheveled working
