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  • facade view of Hôtel de Mayenne Rue de Rivoli and a Philippe Starck history marker
    History,  Let's Explore

    Paris History One Translate App Away

    September 3, 2019 /

    The upside down paddles on the sidewalks around Paris are history markers of the city. The Philippe Starck-designed paddles are in French. When walking and not speaking French you can read them. Shocking? No. Simply install the Google Translate application on your smartphone. How to do it follows this short story. Background story The paddles first appeared in 1992, the year I moved to Paris. The city of Paris contracted with JCDecaux to install the “pelles Starck” to inform the strolling passer-by about a monument, an event, an historical moment, a theater, a passage, etc. Jacques Chirac, then mayor of Paris, initiated the project. For me the shape of the…

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    The Paris “Honeymoon” to Daily Routine Transition

    January 2, 2014
    Printemps Christmas Window Prada Child looking at window and the bears

    Paris Christmas Activities for 2013-2014

    November 13, 2013
    Paris Christmas Ferris Wheel

    Paris Christmas Events

    November 19, 2010
  • Details from the 25 bis Av. Benjamin Franklin, Work of the ceramist Alexandre Bigot at (Architects: Freres Perret / Alexandre Bigot, 1903) - revolutionary because it is one of the first to mark the beginning of modern architecture
    Events and Trade Shows,  Guided Walks,  History

    Paris Art Déco with Walk My Steps

    April 3, 2016 /

    The design style of Art Déco is a hobby for some Paris visitors. This modern style was a focus for a Chicago couple one Saturday afternoon on a tour with Walk My Steps. Our guide, Andrea, introduced us to one neighborhood of Paris in the sixteenth arrondissement that traces the eclectic, ....

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    Access in Paris app for iPhone and Adroid jaccedemobile

    Find Accessibility Obstacles in Paris with Phone Apps

    November 4, 2013
    French speaking talking bears in a Paris toy store

    Toys That Speak French and Toy Stores in Paris

    July 5, 2011
    Colleen from Colleen's Paris

    About Colleen’s Paris And How It All Started

    February 24, 2010
  • Two angels and a pigeon - all have wings - Angel holding a caduceus, Mercury's emblem for commerce and negotiation; palm leaves behind the cherubs symbolize victory Hôtel de Soubise, Paris
    Guided Walks,  History

    Angels of Paris Tour Marais

    March 24, 2016 /

    Scattered around the third and fourth arrondissements of Paris are sculpted angels on buildings. The buildings range in century ages from 1400s to 1600s to 1700s to 1800s to the early 1900s. After 1914, the angels become living relics of the past yet still enjoyable...

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    Images exquises-Musee de la Poupee-Paris

    Paris Activities For 11 And 8 Year Old Girls

    December 27, 2011
    Le Meurice Restaurant scene looking at fireplace, Paris, Yannick Alléno, Chef des Cuisines

    Le Meurice Is A Paris Dining Pleasure

    May 23, 2010
    Galeries Lafayette Christmas decorations customers on the plank

    Noël Voyage in Paris

    December 17, 2020
  • Grefflhe Galliera image
    History,  Museum exhibitions

    Inspiring Comtesse Greffulhe at Galliera

    February 4, 2016 /

    The Comtesse Greffulhe did not follow fashion, she dictated fashion for all in Paris society to follow. She inspired Marcel Proust and fashion designers. Until March 20, 2016, Palais Galliera, Musée de la Mode, is displaying Comtesse Greffulhe's wardrobe collection "La Mode retrouvée" (Finding lost fashion). The collection moves to New York's Museum at FIT in September 2016 under the title "Proust's Muse". As with most women who are "clothes horses" ....

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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
    image of Alaïa poster Galliera exhibition

    Galliera Reopens with Alaïa Retrospective

    November 30, 2013
    image of 2 restaurateurs at Chez Piippo

    New Real Estate for Paris Sidewalk Cafés

    June 2, 2020
  • Beauford Delaney exhibition in Paris - groupings of some of his works. Exhibit in 2016 Wells International Foundation
    History,  Museum exhibitions

    Artist, Beauford Delaney Exhibit in Paris

    January 27, 2016 /

    The works of Beauford Delaney, a figurative, abstract expressionist, i.e., modernist painter, are being shown in the first solo exhibition since 1992. The exhibit, Beauford Delaney: Resonance of Form and Vibration of Color, opens February 3 with a Vernissage in Paris in the Grande Salle at Columbia Global Centers Europe at Reid Hall (Columbia University’s Paris facility), 4 Rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris, Metro: Vavin line 4. Any questions or want an invitation to the vernissage......

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    Kangourou Publicité pour le slip Kangourou, 1948 Collection particulière _ © DR

    Discover the Underworld Under Garments

    September 16, 2013
    Medallion image of Louis Braille for the museum - Braille designed the raised point writing system

    Louis Braille’s Home Is A Museum

    October 12, 2011
    Poster for Carambolages, Carambolages RMN Grand Palais, Paris

    Last Days of Carambolages-Grand Palais

    June 29, 2016
  • cover of Rosemary Flannery's Angels of Paris Architectural Tour through the history of Paris
    Book Reviews,  History,  Seeing Paris,  Videos

    Rosemary Flannery’s Angels of Paris

    January 25, 2016 /

    How do you view Paris? With an angel on her shoulder, Rosemary Flannery views Paris through angel eyes. Rosemary is the author of the book, "Angels of Paris, an Architectural Tour through the History of Paris". Rosemary wrote the text and took the photos, even if it included carrying a ladder around to get the best angle of an angel. I only recently discovered this book, a little slow on my part, but that shows the timelessness of a subject that dates back....

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    Foire de Paris-shopping for home fashion

    May 5, 2018
    To read this QR code, place your smartphone with a QR code app open

    Handy QR Codes for Paris Buses and Museums

    September 26, 2013
    Chair with stack of books about Paris and Champagne, Hemingway, Angels

    Prepare Your Visit to Paris, France

    April 3, 2018
  • Photo of lecturer Edith during Coco Chanel lecture
    History,  Seeing Paris

    Roaring Twenties Paris with Edith

    January 7, 2016 /

    Often it is the Expats who write Paris blogs. Now you can get the true French stories directly from a Parisienne's pen. Her pen name "Edith" comes from Edith Piaf. Both women were born on the same rue de Belleville street, although as Edith says on her Edith's Paris blog, they are not of the same vintage....

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

    RER C Renovating – Reroute Your Journey

    August 11, 2016
    Scene de Carnaval, place de la Concorde, Lami

    Romantic Paris (1815-1848) The Lull Between Upheavals

    June 2, 2019
    Tour Jeans sans Peur details of ceiling in stairwell

    Paris Spring and Shopping in January

    May 22, 2012
  • The gardien ending his day at Square Louis XIII - Place des Vosges in the 4th arrondissement of Paris walking toward the statue.
    History,  Neighborhoods

    Paris Parks begin Winter Hours

    October 28, 2015 /

    Walking through Square Louis XIII (also known as Place des Vosges), my short cut route was cut short. The route became the long way around! The corner where I usually exit was already locked! And then I heard a hint of why."Le square ferme. Mesdames, Messieurs et Mesdemoiselles*, le square ferme," he called out. To my surprise the 7:30 pm closing time was no longer; it was now 5:45 pm! The majority of Paris park changed to winter time when the clocks fell back an hour. ...

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    The Gold Scab 1879, James McNeill Whistler

    Beauty, Morals and Voluptuousness

    January 11, 2012
    Along the promenade of Lake Enghien

    Paris Day Trip to Enghien-les-Bains

    October 2, 2015
    l'Oeil, comme un ballon bizarre se dirige vers L'INFINI, 1882, BNF

    Odilon Redon at the Grand Palais

    May 12, 2011
  • Lady walking in front of the poster for Viollet le Duc exhibit at Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine
    History,  Museum exhibitions

    Exhibit: Viollet-le-Duc, Visions of an Architect

    January 20, 2015 /

    Viollet-le-Duc renovated the crumbling walls and put his imprint on about one hundred French monuments, including Vézelay, Pierrefonds, Notre-Dame de Paris, Carcassonne, Saint-Sernin. At la Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine until March 9, 2015, all of the signage and labels are in French and English. An opportunity for the public to see for the first time a considerable quantity of newly acquired graphic drawings and writing and relate to the public the various facets of this temperamental artist. This retrospective exhibit celebrates the two hundredth anniversary of his birth.

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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

    Brassaï Photography Exhibit

    January 16, 2014
    Facade Courtyard Boulevard Friedlander Doctor's Office

    Apartment Crackdown In Paris

    October 4, 2010
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