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Keeping warm in a wintry Paris
Last week snow was falling, snow on snow, in Paris. The international press (when it hits the Toronto papers you know it is Major News) even reported that the Eiffel Tower was temporarily closed because of it. Unimaginable! Well, actually, … Continue reading
Memento mori
The past is ever-present in Paris, and so are the dead. I don’t know of another city in which so many of the top tourist sites are in some way memorials to those who have gone before. There is the … Continue reading
Posted in Paris history, Paris popular culture
Tagged Charles Meryon, CPR Annie, Haussmann, Institut médico-légal, L'Inconnue de la Seine, La Morgue, Le Journal Illustre, Les Invalides, Man Ray, Paris Catacombs, Paris cemeteries, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Quai de l'Archevêché, Rescue Annie, Thomas Cook
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Englishwomen abroad
I recently came across two oddly similar stories about Englishwomen in Paris. Both women came to the city to work, both became pregnant with men they met in Paris, both had baby girls while living with these men. But the … Continue reading
Paris, City of Reflections
The words Paris, reflections, and mirrors conjure up images of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. But Paris holds many more mirrors and reflections. The streets and shops of Paris are a City of Reflections best revealed to the unhurried … Continue reading
Posted in City of Reflections, Paris art, Paris shops
Tagged Boulevard Henri IV, flaneur, Hall of Mirrors, KYMCO, Miroir Brot, mirrors, plate glass, shop windows
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How to Make a Surprisingly Enduring Film
It’s not the best movie ever made in Paris. Nor is it the best movie made by either of its stars or its director. And yet, with its stylishness and wit, it remains watchable when so many other movies from … Continue reading
A Flâneur’s Advice on Parking in Paris
Baudelaire’s nineteenth-century flâneur explored the city by strolling. A flâneur walked, observed, listened, and had no destinations, appointments or deadlines. With due respect to Monsieur Charles Baudelaire, I have proclaimed myself un flâneur de la circulation et du parking when … Continue reading
“A vile business clumsily done”
In 1847, the year that Charlotte Brontë published Jane Eyre, Paris society was riveted by a similar triangle –a wealthy and prominent man, his unbalanced wife, and a young governess. Their story, however, had a very different ending. In August … Continue reading
Posted in Paris crime, Paris history
Tagged All This and Heaven Too, Bette Davis, Crime of Passion, Duc de Praslin, Duchesse de Praslin, Elysee Palace, Henriette Deluzy, Hotel Sebastiani, Jane Eyre, Marjorie Bowen, Pierre Claude Francois Delorme, Rachel Field, rue de l'Elysee, rue du Faubourg St-Honore, Stanley Loomis, Vaux-le-Vicomte
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Parisian cats
Le Chat Noir is undoubtedly Paris’s most famous cat, or at least its most commercially reproduced cat. But it is only one of many cats who are part of the city’s story. Countless millions have seen Le Chat Noir on … Continue reading
Paris piquant
I’m going to swim against the current here (the Salon du Chocolat is, after all, coming up at the end of October) and state that if you are the sort of person who goes to Paris merely for the boulangeries, … Continue reading
Posted in Paris food
Tagged Amora, Banyuls vinegar, cornichons, Delouis, Dijon mustard, Ducros, Edmond Fallot, Goumanyat, Grande Epicerie de Paris, Izrael, Maille, Meaux mustard, Pommery, Saveur magazine, shallots, Thiercelin
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