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Hidden rivers, white queens, and squaring the triangle
On a blustery January day, two friends and I set out to walk the route of the Bièvre river across the Left Bank. Jill, who lives in Paris, had done most of the walk before and suggested the route. Elizabeth, … Continue reading
Look up
It’s January 19. Do you know where your New Year’s resolutions are? This year, I decided to go minimalist and easy: look up. You can interpret those words any way you want. Chin up, perhaps, if you’re feeling blue. Or, … Continue reading
Posted in Paris architecture, Paris streets
Tagged chien assis, chien couché, dormer, lucarne, lucarne à croupe, lucarne à fronton, lucarne à l’oeil-de-boeuf, lucarne bombée, lucarne capucine, lucarne cintrée, lucarne en batière, lucarne engagée, lucarne gerbière, lucarne jacobine, lucarne meunière, lucarne pendante, lucarne rampante, lucarne rentrante, lucarne retroussée, skylight, tabatière, vasistas, Velux
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Double vision
The other night I couldn’t sleep, and to pass the time I got out Norman’s collection of Paris stereocards and looked at the images. After a while, I realized that one thing was missing from nearly every image: the Eiffel … Continue reading
Posted in Paris history, Paris photography, Paris streets
Tagged Alfred Brack, Cafe de la Paix, Debitte & Hervé, Eiffel Tower, Grand Hotel, Henri Guerard, Hippolyte Jouvin, Hotel de Ville, Jean Andrieu, Keystone View Company, Maison Francois 1er, Place de la Republique, Place du Chateau d'Eau, Place Vendôme, Pygmalion, rue de Fleurus, stereocards, Tour St. Jacques, Tuileries Palace, Underwood & Underwood
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Silent witnesses
Early one morning, Norman and I dropped off our car for servicing at a local garage. We had breakfast at the Goat Café and then took a walk for an hour or so until it was time to retrieve the … Continue reading
Posted in Paris parks, Paris streets, Toronto
Tagged Adolphe Alphand, dawn redwood, espaliering, foxglove tree, Jane Hunter, Judas tree, Musée de Montmartre, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Place de Vosges, Place St-Gervais, plane trees, pollarding, Robinia pseudoacacia, rue Furstemberg, Square de la Villa Sainte Croix, Susan Walter, Thomas Brail
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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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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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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
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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Parisian Fields 