-
Most viewed posts & pages
-
Recent Posts
- Passage St-Pierre
- Saving Mary
- Madame Mozart dies in Paris
- The writing on the wall, part two
- The writing on the wall
- Rondo Parisien
- A Penny for a Dancer’s Son
- Red children and foundling wheels
- The strange case of the disappearing hotel
- Asylum
- A taste of France
- How blind people learned to write: the truth can be told
- Islands
- My mother’s adventure in Paris
- Finding Café Momus
- The Zone
- Zinc
- Twenty questions
- Cloches et clochers
- Péniche
- Entresol
- Chambre de bonne
- Rooftops
- A view of the pandemic (so far) in five masks
- Far from the Madding Crowd
What our readers think
Patrick Erwin on Passage St-Pierre Parisian Fields on Passage St-Pierre Linda Prinsthal on Passage St-Pierre Parisian Fields on Passage St-Pierre Christian on Passage St-Pierre Blogroll
- Armchair Parisian
- Bldg Blog
- Bonjour Paris
- Decoding Paris
- Eat and Two Veg
- French Girl in Seattle
- French News Online
- French Today
- Girls' Guide to Paris
- Invisible Paris
- Magic Lantern Show
- Notes on the visual arts and popular culture
- One quality, the finest
- Paris (Im)perfect
- Paris and I / Paris Set Me Free
- parisinsidersguide.com
- ParisPerdu
- Part-time Parisian
- Rue Rude
- Sound Landscapes Paris
- Spotted by Locals
- Taste of France
- The Paris Blog
Tags
- Champs Elysees
- Charles Marville
- Eiffel Tower
- Eugene Atget
- French Revolution
- Georges-Eugène Haussmann
- Gustave Eiffel
- Gustave Rives
- Jardin du Luxembourg
- Les Grands Magasins Dufayel
- les Halles
- Louis XIV
- Montmartre
- Montparnasse
- Napoleon
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Napoleon III
- Parc des Buttes Chaumont
- Parc Monceau
- Paris flood
- Paris postcards
- Petite Ceinture
- postcards
- Stanley Loomis
- Val de Grace
Categories
Most liked posts & pages
Archives
Tag Archives: Val de Grace
Rooftops
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
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
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
Hiding in plain sight
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
Life in a quiet Paris quartier
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
Parisian Fields 