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Awhile back I wrote about Luc Grateau, an artist who creates portraits of fellow commuters on his metro ticket as he makes his way to work. I was fascinated by his work and just by accident found this video of him in action. It’s in French but you’ll get […]
Here is someone a bit more passionate about the City of Lights than me!
Gerard Brion, creator of this “mini-me” model of Paris, has spent the last 15 years putting together this masterpiece with discarded items–soup cans, baby food jars and old cinder blocks. Amongst the rubbish are well tended flower beds and perfectly shaped boxwoods. […]
This would be a Paris métro ticket–it has been serving the purpose of a bookmark for me these last couple of weeks which accounts for the bit of coffee stain. So not only will it get you anywhere you might want to go in Paris for about $1.50, it serves other utilitarian purposes once the […]
This is my big lumbering black Lab, Libby, who has been with our family for 12 years and life would be incomplete without her. She is pretty simple in her needs and wants–give her love, a dog biscuit and the opportunity to sniff yellow snow and life is good. Pets in Paris don’t usually come […]
I can easily go overboard on Valentine’s Day; in our house it is second only to Christmas as our favorite holiday. When my girls were little, I would take a pan of brownies and cut them into heart shapes or bake heart muffins and gingerbread or sugar cookies. Since the month of February is […]
A few people have written to me asking about the Cour Saint-Pierre since I’ve mentioned it in a few of my posts. Well to be honest with you, I could have written about this little passageway a lot more than I actually have. As I wrote in Fête de la Musique, I was living in the 17e for a […]
When you think about the recent divorce between French President Sarkozy and the former First Lady, things were definitely far from cosy, to say the least! What’s interesting, however, is the way the French perceive this marital seperation and the way the American public would react if an American president were to divorce his wife after […]
What’s nice about having your own blog is being able to write what you want and I want to say that I am so proud of Geraldine! She has an amazing voice and her take on the hit song The Show Must Go On by the English rock band Queen is fantastic! Who would have thought that when she […]
I went to see a good friend of mine at her workplace who was retiring after years at a job she loved. I can still remember when JJ first started working there and how happy she was. It was a dream job right off the Champs-Elysées. Not because she met celebrities all the time; she […]
A great festival every year since 1934 is the annual Fête des Vendanges de Montmartre (the Grape Harvest Festival of Montmartre). The festival takes place next week-end from the 12th to the 14th of October which celebrates the wine from the local vineyards. Each year the festival honors a celebrity with the previous year’s vintage; […]
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