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A convent education
As I was leaving for the hospital, I grabbed a book from the bookshelf near the bedroom door. I chose it because it was a small paperback I could slip into my little bag of belongings. Just as well. There … Continue reading
Astérix and the lost streets of Montparnasse
I am a latecomer to the adventures of Astérix, the hero of more than 30 bandes dessinés – comics, or perhaps “comix” à la René Goscinny, the creator of Astérix and all those other “x” characters. There’s Obélix, the pigtailed … Continue reading
Posted in Paris churches, Paris popular culture, Paris streets
Tagged Albert Uderzo, Astérix, Galettes bretonnes, Hotel de l'Industrie, Martin Sorrell, Nicholas Breach, Notre Dame du Travail, René Goscinny, Richard Cobb, rue d’Alésia, Rue de Gergovie, rue Vercingétorix, Slightly Foxed, Suffren
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The boating party
For Marnie, with thanks for many happy memories, and for your long-standing support of this blog. Sail on, silver girl. I am thinking about boats today, for several reasons. One is the fact that a good friend of ours who … Continue reading
Posted in Family history, Seine, Toronto
Tagged Edouard Manet, Georges Seurat, Gustave Caillebotte, mary cassatt, Paris flood, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Sevres, Turgot map
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Up Stairs. Down Stairs.
One of our favourite walks starts close to the apartment we often rent that overlooks the Boulevard de Port Royal. It begins when you go through a hole in the sidewalk and down a set of stairs. Just west of … Continue reading
Posted in Paris history, Paris parks, Paris streets
Tagged Bièvre River, Boulevard de Port Royal, Butte Bergeyre, Buttes Chaumont, Combat Quartier, Folles Buttes, Le Verre à Pied, Mont Ste-Geneviève, Pierre Berton, Pierre Gripari, Robert Bergeyre, rue Broca, rue Michel Tagrine, Secret World of Og
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Beer and sandwiches from the Brasserie Dauphine
If the title of this blog rings a bell for you, you must be a fan of the mystery novels of Georges Simenon. When Inspector Maigret holds an interrogation at the Quai des Orfèvres, more often than not he orders … Continue reading
Posted in Paris books, Paris crime, Paris nostalgia
Tagged Canal St-Martin, Georges Simenon, Jules Maigret, Maigret, Place Dauphine, Quai des Orfèvres
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A museum of images in a garden of peace
With such an abundance of museums and galleries in Paris, should it be a surprise that on occasion, the one you had your heart set on visiting happens to be closed? But then there is the flip side of the … Continue reading
Posted in Paris gardens, Paris history
Tagged Albert Kahn, Alfred Duterte, Archives de la Planète, Auguste Léon, Édouard André, Boulogne-Billancourt, Bourses de Voyage autour du Monde, Charles et Edmond Goudchoux, Fumiaki Takano, Gérard Planes, Kengo Kuma, Léon Busy, Lumière Brothers, Musée Départemental Albert Kahn, Stéphane Passet
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Napoleon slept here
I don’t remember where I bought the postcard, although the price on the back shows that I lashed out a whopping 5 euros on it. It shows an undistinguished shopfront covered in advertising. It must have been the caption that … Continue reading
Lorette
“What is the significance of the name Loretto?” asked Norman, looking at a picture of the former Loretto Academy in Niagara Falls. “It reminds me of that church in Paris.” Notre-Dame-de-Lorette in Paris is an imposing Neoclassical edifice in the … Continue reading
Posted in Paris churches, Paris history, Paris quartiers
Tagged courtesans, filles publiques, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, grandes horizontales, grisettes, La Nouvelle Athènes, Lorette, maisons closes, Maurice Alhoy, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Paul Gavarni, prostitutes, rue Bréda, rue Henry Monnier
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Edward Hopper in Paris
Norman and I were browsing in a second-hand bookshop recently, when I came across a book about the American artist Edward Hopper that included this illustration: The caption read, “Stairway at 48, rue de Lille, Paris, 1906.” I shouldn’t have … Continue reading
Paris Camino, part two
Here we are at the intersection of the rue St-Jacques and the boulevard Port-Royal (aka Carrefour de la Mort – our name for it; you won’t see it on the walls!), heading south. Once you have crossed the tricky intersection, … Continue reading
Posted in Paris civic functions, Paris hospitals, Paris streets
Tagged Ecole Normale Supérieur, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Hopital Cochin, Hotel de Massa, Jacques Hillairet, Port Royal maternity hospital, Porte d’Orléans, Protestant Institute of Theology Paris, Reservoir Montsouris, rue de la Tombe-d’Issoire, Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, Société de Gens de Lettres
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