The Paris Traveler

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 number of years. It was the only time I had lived outside of the 6th arrondissement in Paris.
The Cour Saint-Pierre was like living in a tiny village in France. Everyone moved into this little street around the same time that I did (early 80’s) and …read more

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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 was a kid playing outside my apartment window in the Cour Saint-Pierre that she would one day be performing on stage and screen and giving rock concerts?! I did!
Why not! Afterall, her father was a world famous magician from Argentina, and considered one of the best; …read more

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“Make Music” is a music celebration on June 21st that began in 1982 by Jack Lang who was the Minister of Culture in France at the time. The idea behind this day, which falls on the first day of summer, and the longest day of the year, was for anyone and everyone to make music.
The goal was to get amateurs and professionals alike to take to the streets in a free for all festival of music. The first year that it began, I was living in the 17th arrond. in a little passageway that seemed more like living in a …read more

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