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    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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    Video of the Paris City Hall

    Paris Hôtel de Ville Guided Visit

    August 2, 2014
    Similng Spider (Araigée souriante), 1881, Musée d'Orsay (conserved at the Louvre)

    Paris Museums using “Apps” for Audio Guides

    May 12, 2011
    Mont Saint Michel PAS #3 photo from the air - also found on Tourist Office Web site for Mont Saint Michel www.ot-montsaintmichel.com

    Mont Saint-Michel

    May 25, 2011
  • Image of Nathalie from Bring France Home in her shop rue de Birague
    Practical Info,  Specialty shops

    Bring France Home and Support Small Businesses

    August 21, 2020 /

    “We’re still here,” said Nathalie as she dusted the Paris dust off the shelves and products. Bring France Home is your Made in France shop on rue de Birague and online. Click on the categories at the bottom of their webpage to fill your shopping basket! The Eiffel Tower jewelry (category “jewels”) is unique to Bring France Home from their neighbor jeweler: Galerie UBU. Nathalie is optimistic for this year, but her shop and others need the international tourists back to survive. Chamber of Commerce (CCI) research in October 2019 showed that 80% of a shop’s revenue came from international tourists...... Click on the title to read more and watch…

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    Maternal Tenderness (1786) Salon 1787 one of three paintings shown at the salon exulting the joys of motherhood, reflecting the new spirit of the time, fashionable to express sentimentalism.

    Vigée Le Brun Retrospective at Grand Palais

    November 3, 2015
    Grand Palais interior Staircase

    Revival of the Grand Palais

    October 5, 2011
    Poster for Aiguille en fete the needlework trade show with studios

    Needlework Fair (Aiguille en Fête) February

    January 27, 2016
  • Going Out

    Foire de Paris-shopping for home fashion

    May 5, 2018 /

    Making the annual pilgrimage to the Paris Home Show (Foire de Paris) is now mission accomplished. However, we are going back for more.
Last year we made contact with the interior architects and chose the style for the new, smaller sofa bed (canapé lit) and chair.
After numerous vacations and conferences we are about to squeeze in and firm up our renovation plans to upgrade the nearly hundred year old electricity to accommodate the......

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    Interactive game Shambles at Versailles "Help Louis XIV to build his Palace

    Experience Versailles in 3D from Home

    June 17, 2012
    Benjamin Franklin House London his front room for "air bathing"

    Hidden Houses and Pubs – Long Weekend in London

    March 22, 2011
    Partial book cover "Intoxicating Paris" by PJ Adams with Metro, Hotel de Ville plaza and Notre-Dame in the background

    Book Review: “Intoxicating Paris, Uncorking the Parisian Within”

    January 14, 2014
  • postcard with croissant head Bring France Home
    Specific Info

    Quirky Paris Souvenir Ideas

    April 17, 2018 /

    While wandering around BHV/Marais I noticed bits and pieces of hardware, wall paper and cleaning products made in France. Across the street at City Hall's Paris Rendez-Vous boutique concept shop I found unusual souvenirs made in France. A while ago, I found Bring France Home near Place des Vosges that only sells souvenirs made in France. Are you looking for quirky Paris souvenir ideas and inexpensive?

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    Galette des Rois with crown

    Scoop!!! The Best Parisian “Galette des rois” In My Backyard!

    January 6, 2011
    Les Pestacles-Festival for kids June to September

    June in Paris – Events, Festivals, Music, Sports

    May 28, 2010
    Museum of Natural History Mastodons Paris Gallery with skeletons Musee d'Histoire Natural Paris

    A Weekend with Children in Paris

    July 5, 2011
  • Chair with stack of books about Paris and Champagne, Hemingway, Angels
    Specific Info

    Prepare Your Visit to Paris, France

    April 3, 2018 /

    Suitcase? Check! Camera? Check! Walking shoes? Check! Reading material? Prepare in advance with some book ideas! Language? Brush up on that French grammar! Frantastique is my Wednesday exercise. Then when I go shopping or chat on the street, those proper verbs just slide right out ... still studying though! Some of the books in my library are Paris walking tours. They provide enough material to stroll through Paris and explore. Another prepares you with a story and history for your Champagne tasting. David Downie's books are walking tours of history. Each chapter of each book weaves a tale of discovery. Tilar J. Mazzeo's book whisks you into Champagne history with…

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    Poster for Carambolages, Carambolages RMN Grand Palais, Paris

    Last Days of Carambolages-Grand Palais

    June 29, 2016
    Poster for Aiguille en fete the needlework trade show with studios

    Needlework Fair (Aiguille en Fête) February

    January 27, 2016
    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

    Paris Art Déco with Walk My Steps

    April 3, 2016
  • Image from Foire de Paris 2018 website with dates
    Events and Trade Shows,  Going Out

    Jounaliste, Influenceur or Pigiste for Foire de Paris

    March 30, 2018 /

    It is time to prepare for another gigantic Paris home show. While applying for my 2018 Foire de Paris press accreditation, I found a new category. Joining the list of journaliste (journalist) and pigiste (free-lancer) is the influenceur*. Usually I think of the marketing influencers for Fashion Week. But if you love to cook, design, check out the future through inventions, are curious about appliances and world cultures you probably follow an influencer on social media. The first Foire de Paris, was held in 1904 at Carreau du Temple in the third arrondissement. The annual event moved to its present location at Porte de Versailles in 1924. You can read more about…

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    Croissant from La Baguette Tardif-Figaroscope article on Best Croissants in Paris

    Best Croissants in Paris-Figaroscope’s Ranking

    January 21, 2013
    Images exquises-Musee de la Poupee-Paris

    Paris Activities For 11 And 8 Year Old Girls

    December 27, 2011
    La Colomberie Christmas decorations and ornaments

    Christmas Decorations With A Paris Theme

    December 4, 2010
  • painting of à la Petite Fabrique
    Chocolate, Sweets & Bakeries,  Life in Paris & France

    Saying Goodbye to Icons in the Bastille Neighborhood

    January 12, 2018 /

    Living in a small neighborhood of the Bastille, the hardest phrases to hear over the last year have been: "We're closing and retiring" and "They have sold the shop for their retirement": Holmes, the stationery store, and now à la Petite Fabrique, the chocolate factory. Holmes was transformed into an upscale Italian restaurant and word is that Alain Ducasse is buying the Petite Fabrique.... The neighborhood in the area of Hugo's Les Miserables and the French Revolution has gone upscale.

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    Palais-Royal The Little Canon & Tulips in the sunshine

    The Little Canon in Paris

    April 2, 2014
    Image shows the Eiffel Tower Green project "OnEI"

    Eiffel Tower-One Big Green Space and Garden

    May 24, 2019
    A popular movie location at Cafés de l'Indusrie

    Statistics About Paris, Parisians and Tourists

    June 17, 2012
  • Chalets along Champs-Elysées for Christmas Market and Santa Claus Pere Noel
    Christmas,  Specific Info

    Champs Elysées Christmas Market No More

    November 7, 2017 /

    Two events will effect somebody this latter part of 2017. Planning on the Champs-Elysées Christmas market? Stuck in traffic? It's like a soap opera or a custody fight in a divorce. Whose side will you be on? Every year Christmas markets attract 30 million people visitors in France. Fifteen million of those visit one or more of the 250 chalets along the Champs-Elysées for the Paris Christmas market. If you are stuck in traffic this week, the carnival operators are conducting an "escargot" (snail) slowing down and blocking traffic with their semi trucks on the expressways. They want to set up their chalets on the Champs-Elysées.

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    Natali’s Bohemian Style!

    August 2, 2017
    Leaves changing inside the Hotel Sully garden

    A Paris Indian Summer

    November 8, 2010
    Lost & Found - Objets trouvées - 36, rue des Morillons Paris 75015

    Did You Lose An Object In Paris?

    December 17, 2012
  • Let's Explore,  Specialty shops

    Bring France Home with Designer Souvenirs

    August 31, 2017 /

    Bring Home France on rue de Birague in the Marais offers unique Paris and French souvenirs designed by a street artist, graphic designers, fashion and home designers. Some products are made by long-standing French firms in Gien, Limoges, by Duralex and Laulhère-France. In the store and for shopping online they have a wide selection of products ranging from gastronomy and jewels to fashion, decoration and toys. Nathalie Crouzet tells you some stories and legends behind some of the souvenirs in my first video story.

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    Paris Christmas Ferris Wheel

    Paris Christmas Events

    November 19, 2010
    Ice skating until beginning of March at Hotel de Ville plaza, Notre Dame in the background

    Living in Paris on a January Saturday Morning

    January 15, 2014
    Image of Parisian sunset and Pont Notre-Dame

    Paris: 5 Bridges and the Sun Set

    May 18, 2020
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