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  • Exterior of photo agency Roger-Viollet Galerie 6 rue de Seine Paris
    Let's Explore,  Seeing Paris

    Paris Churches and Art Galleries–New Museums?

    March 5, 2021 /

    Starving for art and culture in Paris? Churches and art galleries are filling the culture gap left by temporary museum closings in Paris....Eglise Saint-Merry as a Gallery...Walking near the Centre Georges Pompidou, I felt an urge to walk into the Eglise (church) Saint-Merry. As I entered, the interior of Saint-Merry mixes scaffolding with temporary art.

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    Charles Pigeon, Montparnasse Cemetery, inventor non-exploding gas lamp

    Find A Famous Grave In Paris Cemeteries

    September 27, 2010
    Place des Vosges lawn with art work on COP21 theme from Ateliers Beaux Arts, Ville de Paris art courses

    Place des Vosges as an Art Gallery

    May 14, 2016
    Leaves changing inside the Hotel Sully garden

    A Paris Indian Summer

    November 8, 2010
  • Let's Explore,  Monuments

    Notre-Dame de Paris: Oaks and Stone – the Latest News

    February 17, 2021 /

    The day after the fire, President Emmanuel Macron said that Notre-Dame de Paris would be repaired by 2024. That was the easy part. Where do you find trees at least 100-years old to replace Eugène Viollet-le-Duc's spire? Where do you find the stones to replace those from 760 year ago that were damaged by water and fire? Finding trees and stone is the easy part. The race against time is the hard part. The President and the committee in charge of the reconstruction have decided to restore the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral to its 1865 renovation. The oak trees for the spire (flêche) are located west of Paris in the…

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    Pont Louis Philippe looking back at Ile de la Cité

    A February Saturday in Paris

    February 28, 2011
    Cat in construction area at night

    Paris Evening, Walking in Black and White

    October 3, 2020
    poster for December 31 Jean-Michel Jarre virtual reality at Notre-Dame de paris

    Notre-Dame de Paris and Jean-Michel Jarre

    December 31, 2020
  • image for Titon et l'Aurore Opéra Comique
    Going Out,  Theater-Cinema-Music

    Life-Size Marionettes at Paris’s Opéra Comique

    January 23, 2021 /

    Watching Opéra Baroque was the most entertaining virtual event that I have seen lately. Basil Twist has modernized a 1753 opera-ballet using life-size puppets. In the New York Times article: “Basil Twist in Paris: When Puppets Meet Baroque Opera” you read about two Americans who worked on this production in New York for the presentation in Paris at the Opéra Comique. The opera-ballet is full of special effects, including about 60 sheep, Mr. Twist, the stage director said in an interview. What you will see-The life-size marionettes/puppets and live artists perform Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville's "Titon et l'Aurore".

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    image of the Boucherie Bruno Marché Bastille

    Paris Markets Wrapped in Plastic

    May 15, 2020
    The sign that impressioned Louboutin to work with heels

    Christian Louboutin Exhibition(iste)

    September 13, 2020

    Walk and Roll Event-100 Trains for Ataxia

    March 23, 2016
  • A Snow day in Paris Snowman at the Louvre Carrousel
    Photography-Art,  Specific Info

    A Day in Paris When It Snowed

    January 19, 2021 /

    One day last week the blackbirds (merles in French) were chirping away in a choral cacophony of song at at 5:30 am. I wondered if springtime was around the corner -- in mid-January! That springtime moment was short-lived. Thirty-two departments, including Paris and Ile-de-France, were placed under snow warnings. Saturday was going to be a snow day in Paris. Météo-France and our Echo-dot, Alexa, confirmed that the snow would begin by 11 am Saturday.

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    Manege Enfantin, Pavillon de Bercy, Museum of Fairground Arts, Musée des Arts Forains, Paris, Open Christmas Holidays Dec 26-Jan 6

    The Fair That Stays In Town-Musée des Arts Forains

    July 1, 2016
    Place des Abbesses, Montmartre, Paris

    Catch The Montmartre Electric Bus (Montmartrobus)

    December 3, 2010
    Cherry flowers in the Trocadero Gardens Eiffel Tower in early April

    April Spring Easter Monday — Or Is It June in Paris?

    April 25, 2011
  • Image of Man taking selfie at Louvre Pyramid
    Let's Explore,  Neighborhoods

    Springtime Silence in Paris for 55 Days

    December 31, 2020 /

    It is time to turn the page on Chapter 2020. Who would have guessed that one would feel a bit nostalgic for the Paris Springtime in 2020!? All of the ups and downs and changes during the Springtime in Paris lockdown from total confinement to mostly open for summer and back to partially open; having to differentiate between what is essential (food) and non-essential (books) and back to semi-partial of partial and curfews. Aiiieee!! A Nostalgic Period? One Parisian confinement period stands out among all the rest of 2020. Between March 15 and May 11, 2020 Paris went silent.

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    The Gold Scab 1879, James McNeill Whistler

    Beauty, Morals and Voluptuousness

    January 11, 2012
    Image shows the Eiffel Tower Green project "OnEI"

    Eiffel Tower-One Big Green Space and Garden

    May 24, 2019
    Visitors have the chance to choose the next color of the stairwell walls #l'Institute Suédois

    Hôtel de Marle’s Hidden Rooms at l’Institute Suédois

    September 27, 2019
  • poster for December 31 Jean-Michel Jarre virtual reality at Notre-Dame de paris
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    Notre-Dame de Paris and Jean-Michel Jarre

    December 31, 2020 /

    A virtual, free concert at Notre-Dame de Paris is taking place on December 31. The electronic music artist, Jean-Michel Jarre, has prepared an out-of-the ordinary concert. The 45-minute concert is direct from his Paris studio while at the same time an avatar plays from the interior of the virtually reconstituted cathedral. The concert takes place December 31 between 11:25 pm and 12:15 a.m. (CET/Paris time). You can listen online, television, or radio. How to listen to the concert Anyone equipped with a Virtual Reality (VR) helmet or in 2D on your computer, tablet or smartphone. Connect with Réalité Virtuelle on its VR social platform VRchat. Direct online at Paris.fr and…

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    Eiffel Tower, Batobus and Metamorphosis

    October 8, 2011

    Un Picasso – Play at Theatre de Nesle

    October 22, 2015
    Poster for Berenice Abbott exhibit, Jeu de Paume 2012

    Berenice Abbott, Photographer Of A Century

    April 6, 2012
  • Image of carrousel and Hôtel de Ville in the background for Christmas
    Let's Explore,  Seeing Paris

    Blue Velvet Christmas in Paris

    December 25, 2020 /

    Three Paris monuments are wearing Blue Velvet this year. La Ville de Paris theme this year is “Paris Scintille” (Paris sparkles). Until January 3, Paris sparkles with white drops of light dripping down the façade of the Hôtel de Ville (City hall) and the Luxor Obelisk on Place de la Concorde. The Bastille Colonne de Juillet (July column) has no white drops but was my first dramatic glimpse of the blue velvet. What You Will See The Hôtel de Ville plaza is an illuminated, enchanted, fairy-tale forest with two free merry-go-rounds, including a double-decker. There are wood chalet kiosks with various treats. One kiosk is selling spiced wine, pretzels, waffles,…

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    Lost & Found - Objets trouvées - 36, rue des Morillons Paris 75015

    Did You Lose An Object In Paris?

    December 17, 2012
    "car rapide" Bonne Mère located now in the Musée de l'Homme

    Le Car Rapide at Musée de l’Homme

    November 24, 2015
    Paris Cemetery Pere Lachaise Cloaked Figure

    Cemeteries in Paris and Maps

    October 4, 2011
  • Galeries Lafayette Christmas decorations customers on the plank
    Christmas,  Going Out

    Noël Voyage in Paris

    December 17, 2020 /

    Paris Sparkles during the Holidays. Take a Paris Voyage with Colleen's Paris on small street of the Bastille, the department store decorations and rooftops, watch the lights come up on the Champs-Elysées and see Avenue Montaigne lit up, a carrousel in the Tuileries Garden and be mystified at the blue velvet column of the Bastille. 

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    Poster for La Chaise et l'Ecran, du cinéma dans nos rues

    Paris Cinema Festival from Lost in Frenchlation

    August 10, 2016
    Poster with stations closed during RER C summer renovation in Paris until August 27, 2016

    RER C Renovating – Reroute Your Journey

    August 11, 2016
    La Belle chocolatiere

    Gourmet Chocolate Museum in Paris is Choco-Story

    May 19, 2010
  • Image of Le Figaro newspaper small business owners
    Let's Explore,  Seeing Paris

    Paris: Shopping for Essentials – Who decides?

    November 17, 2020 /

    Thinking about the holiday shopping ahead? France is working through a vocabulary issue: what is considered essential shopping and what is non-essential? On the morning breakfast show, Télématin, Gabriel Atal, a government spokesperson, said it was unfortunate the government chose the legal form of the word, essential. In other words, deciding what is or is not essential is very controversial. Small businesses are hurting in November Monoprix, a mini-department store (grocery, household, parapharmacy, clothing, toiletries, etc.) was fully open during the first 55-day lockdown. This time, to be in solidarity with the small business, certain departments are cordoned off: books for example. However, magazines are sold because the magazine kiosks and…

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    Eiffel Art-Just before the police arrive and chase away the vendors on Trocadero

    Frequent Eiffel Tower Questions

    June 14, 2011
    Exterior of photo agency Roger-Viollet Galerie 6 rue de Seine Paris

    Paris Churches and Art Galleries–New Museums?

    March 5, 2021
    Image of the Amelot entrance Repaire de Cartouche

    Le Doggy Bag Concept Expands in Paris

    May 13, 2020
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