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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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    Paris to the Pyrenees book on my library shelf with Paris, Paris Journey to the City of Lights in the background by David Downie

    Book Review: Paris to the Pyrenées, A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James

    December 26, 2013
    Patrouille de France (Alpha Jet)

    Visiting the Paris Air Show – Le Bourget

    June 23, 2015

    A Parisian’s Closet-A Saleswoman’s Story at Carnavalet

    January 3, 2014
  • 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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    Musée des Arts Forains poster for Le Festival du Merveilleux 2013

    Arts Forains Another Marvelous Festival for Christmas 2013

    December 31, 2013
    Looking at the Champs-Elysees garden in Paris- Gad Weil and Laurence Medioni

    Champs-Elysées-One Big Garden

    May 21, 2010
    Theatre in Paris_Logo

    French Theatre in Paris & English Surtitles

    July 12, 2016
  • 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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    Bataclan Café

    Bataclan Revisted

    November 24, 2015
    Les Deux Magots side view with lady in long red scarf

    A Guide to Paris for Lovers of Literature

    December 10, 2013
    Musée d'art et histoire du Judaïsme-Capa, Taro & Chim, Paris La Valise Mexicaine, The Mexican Suitcase

    Treasures in a Mexican Suitcase-Capa, Taro, Chim

    April 16, 2013
  • 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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    Children on Amusement Rides with Sponge Bob

    More Things to do with Children in Paris

    July 5, 2011
    Grand Palais interior Staircase

    Revival of the Grand Palais

    October 5, 2011
    Logo for the Paris Jazz Festival

    Jazz Festivals Around Paris

    July 1, 2015
  • 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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    Orient des femmes - Women in the Near East - Musee du quai Branly, Paris until May 15, 2011

    When Bethlehem Was The “Paris” Of Fashion

    February 15, 2011
    Girl selling flowers at her stand in a pavilion 1968

    Doisneau Photos Show Old Les Halles

    February 22, 2012
    Vendor outside Place des Vosges selling muguet in a stand

    May 1 and the Muguet

    April 30, 2014
  • 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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    How did le Croque-Monsieur get its name?

    February 19, 2014
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    Looking For A Pay Phone At Gare de Lyon?

    December 12, 2010
    Interior Courtyard of Petit Palais, Paris, France, dining on the terrace

    Free Things in Paris – A Partial List

    June 24, 2017
  • 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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    Paris Plages 2020 Includes Covid Testing

    August 13, 2020
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    Paris WiFi Hotspots

    June 30, 2010
    Roms waiting for the next ATM victim

    For the Paris Police Dial 17

    July 17, 2017
  • 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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    Frank Gehry Fondation Louis Vuitton conversation with Jean-Louis Cohen

    A Rare Moment in Paris with Frank Gehry

    October 3, 2019
    Cherry flowers in the Trocadero Gardens Eiffel Tower in early April

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

    April 25, 2011
    Shooting a movie in Paris - Place Monge

    New York Film Academy Paris April 24, 2011 – Open House

    April 21, 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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    A Paris Indian Summer

    November 8, 2010
    Grand Palais interior Staircase

    Revival of the Grand Palais

    October 5, 2011
    Pâtisserie Viennoise 8 Rue de l'École de Médecine, 75006 Paris

    Paris Hot Chocolate Tastings

    January 2, 2013
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