Tag Archives: Val de Grace

Paris Camino

Posted on July 3, 2022 by Parisian Fields

Paris is a city for walking – for tourists, for flâneurs, and also for pilgrims. For some, it is the conclusion of a pilgrimage. On the rue du Bac, you will see pilgrims from many countries entering the courtyard of … Continue reading →

Posted in Charles Barbier, Paris churches, Paris history, Paris hospitals, Paris streets | Tagged Abbé de l’Epée, anchoresses, anchorites, Camino de Santiago, Caroline Armington, Collège de France, Institut National des Jeunes Sourds, Librairie des Editeurs Indépendants, Lycée Louis Le Grand, Maison de l’Océan, Panthéon, Pippa, recluses, reclusoirs, rue du Petit Pont, rue Gay-Lussac, rue St-Jacques, Schola Cantorum, St-Jacques des Haut Pas, St-Severin, Tour St-Jacques, Val de Grace, Vespasienne, Via Superior, Via Turonensis | 18 Comments

Saving Mary

Posted on March 27, 2022 by Parisian Fields

Amid the oceans of heart-breaking news that surrounded us in March 2022, there was some good news from a French village called, appropriately, Island, in the department of the Yonne in Burgundy–Franche-Comté. About 180 people live in the village, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Burgundy | Tagged Allianz, Anne of Austria, Assumption of Mary, Avallon, Charles Trinquart d’Etampes, Island, La Voilotte, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Musee de Baron Martin, Noëlle Roy, Patrice Roy, Paule Buffy, Plancher de Jeannot, Sauvegarde de l’Art Français, St-Bénigne, St-Firmin, Val de Grace, Vézelay, Vivre Island | 10 Comments

Rooftops

Posted on August 9, 2020 by Parisian Fields

One of our favourite TV programs, Dix Pour Cent/Call My Agent,* opens with the following image, taken either from the roof of the Louvre or from a drone. It is never on screen for more than a few seconds, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Paris architecture, Paris history, Paris hospitals, Paris shops, Paris streets | Tagged Alexis-Hubert Jaillot, Call My Agent, Couvent des Feuillants, Dix Pour Cent, DTACC, Grands Magasins du Louvre, Hall des Tapis, Le Bon Coin, Maje, Matthaüs Merian, Oratoire du Louvre, Renaissance Paris République, rue de Marengo, rue de Rivoli, rue St-Honoré, Val de Grace | 42 Comments

Places of healing

Posted on May 17, 2020 by Parisian Fields

As businesses and institutions in France begin to open up, cautiously, I find myself trying to imagine life in the city right now. Those thoughts start with the quartier we know best – the Observatoire. It’s a neighbourhood that I … Continue reading →

Posted in Paris history, Paris hospitals | Tagged American Hospital in Neuilly, Cochin Hospital, Hôpital Laënnec, Hôpital Lariboisière, Hôpital St-Louis, Hôpital St-Vincent-de-Paul, Hôtel-Dieu, Hertford British Hospital, Jean-Martin Charcot, La Pitié–Salpetrière, Necker children's hospital, Port Royal maternity hospital, Sigmund Freud, Stanley Loomis, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue hospital, Val de Grace | 6 Comments

Hark the Herald

Posted on December 22, 2013 by Parisian Fields

In casting about for a Christmassy theme for this week’s blog, I thought about angels. Angels have prominent roles in the Christmas story, and I had photographed lots of them in Paris, hadn’t I? Or had I? Well, yes and … Continue reading →

Posted in Paris architecture, Paris churches, Paris streets | Tagged Antonin Mercié, Avenue de la Grande Armée, Cluny Museum, Gustave Rives, Hotel Carnavalet, Hotel Roblin, Paris angels, Petit Palais, Rosemary Flannery, rue de l'Annonciation, Tuileries Palace, Val de Grace | 6 Comments

Hiding in plain sight

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Parisian Fields

When we rented an apartment near the Val-de-Grâce, the lady who owned the flat told us that the church and buildings there were very beautiful, but the only way to see inside was to go for mass on Sunday morning. … Continue reading →

Posted in Paris art, Paris churches, Paris gardens, Paris history, Paris hospitals | Tagged Anne of Austria, Francois Mansart, French army, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Musée du Service de Santé des Armées, Paris libraries, St. Anne, Val de Grace | 8 Comments

Life in a quiet Paris quartier

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Parisian Fields

We are back in Canada, but still enjoying our memories of Paris. We stayed in a comfortable apartment in an area of the city we had never before explored, not far from the intersection of the Boulevard Port-Royal and the … Continue reading →