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25 juillet 2009

Little Tour of Paris Art Nouveau

Dear Everyone, I was woken up in the early hours of the morning by an idea for a walk. A flash of inspiration indeed. So, off I set around 9h, armed with bottle of water, notebook and guidebook of Paris on a mission. A mission to find the best examples...

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3 septembre 2009

Tuesday night au Limonaire

Dear Everyone, Tuesday evening with Marie Jo and Fa au Limonaire, a marvellous bistro near Grands Boulevards where one can listen to fabulous cabaret chanson after a good meal cooked by "Grande Lolo du Fourneau" in a great ambiance. Music-lovers flock...

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1 février 2013

The unspeakable tragedy of 'les soeurs Papin'

(Photo source) You're probably wondering why these last two posts are all about such grizzly stuff... Well, because one of my classes this morning was on famous murder cases in France. My student came up with a handful I had never heard of and thought...

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29 septembre 2009

Fernandel et Félicie aussi

I had this as a ring tone once... Félicie Aussi C'est dans un coin du bois d'Boulogne Que j'ai rencontré Félicie Elle arrivait de la Bourgogne Et moi j'arrivai en Taxi Je trouvai vite une occasion D'engager la conversation Il faisait un temps superbe...

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28 février 2009

Happy Martisor!

Dear Everyone, I just wrote a whole great long post about Martisor and what a lovely festival it is in Roumania, followed by the story of it, another few myths and legends and then something happened and I lost the lot. Daaaaamn computer! Here I go all...

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21 septembre 2008

Picpus

Dear Everyone, Sitting on the metro the other day, my eyes fell upon the station name Picpus , and I thought, 'what a great name for a cat'. Then, another thought - 'and how strange it is. I wonder where it comes from'. And thus, this evening, I did a...

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19 juillet 2009

From the Spiegel - now that's what I call brilliant!

A MINOR MIRACLE? Chocolate Company Promises Melt-Free Revolution By Alice Chalupny Chocolate is just as much a part of Switzerland as the Alps. Now, global market leader Barry Callebaut has developed the product that competitors have been hopelessly puzzling...

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25 septembre 2008

Biserica Ingropata din Causeni

What a lovely story - thanks, Dan. Biserica ingropata din Causeni Cea mai pretioasa biserica din Basarabia In Basarabia exista o biserica monument, care a fost facuta in secret si ingropata sub pamant, pentru a fi ferita de ochii paganilor. O comoara...

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7 décembre 2008

Saul Steinberg

Saul and the city Saul Steinberg, the New Yorker's legendary cartoonist, perfectly captured the city's great changes - and the mindset of its citizens. Adam Gopnik remembers his colleague and friend Adam Gopnik The Guardian, Thursday November 27 2008...

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23 juin 2009

Kiki de Montparnasse

I was reading a fabulous site called the Minotaur, a kind of encyclopedia of the arts, and fell upon this piece about Kiki of Montparnasse. I'd never heard of her and the name grabbed me - it conjured up images of an artists model, garratts and everything...

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2 septembre 2009

This from the Telegraph: Russia and Poland trade

This from the Telegraph: Russia and Poland trade insults on 70th anniversary of World War Two The dignity of ceremonies to mark the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War in Poland is being marred by furious spats between Russia and...

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18 décembre 2009

God was a hard act to follow...

Semi-nude Mary and Joseph spark outrage in New Zealand Anglican church defends Christmas billboard campaign showing couple in bed together Toni O'Loughlin , Guardian A billboard showing Mary and Jospeh under the bedsheets has outraged some New Zealanders....

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29 novembre 2008

Hmmm...!

A modest proposal O give me a home... Nov 13th 2008 From The Economist print edition The Maldives’ president has come up with a solution to the world’s problems Rex Features LOSING one’s home is a sadly common experience in these dark economic days, but...

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27 juin 2010

hair-dye queen's been on the fiddle

Naughty Mme Bettencourt! Below from the Telegraph via Bucharest Herald Liliane Bettencourt sets France agog over links between money and power E-mail Print PDF Liliane Bettencourt, heiress to the L'Oréal fortune and France's richest woman, is at the centre...

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18 septembre 2010

Hommage to Claude Chabrol

Que la joie de Chabrol demeure Télérama Le 13 septembre 2010 à 18h30 LE FIL CINéMA - Les monstrueux secrets de la bourgeoisie de province, la bête qui dort en chacun de nous...Le malicieux Claude Chabrol aimait plus que tout les “petits sujets”. Qu'il...

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10 octobre 2010

To pee or not to pee, that is the question...

Paris celebrates the call of nature By Alison Hird for RFI Throne, loo, WC, bathroom, latrine, bog, the good old toilet goes by many a name, its function remains the same. And in a world where some 38 per cent of the world’s population has no access to...

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4 septembre 2010

Friday prayers in Paris

(Photo left: Francaisdefrance )Valérie told me the other day that there are streets in paris that get blocked on a Friday night for Friday Prayers. Huh? Where? I asked. Oh, she told me, not in your area, I don't think - the XVIIIè maybe. Whilst on holiday...

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19 novembre 2010

The lessons of the cholera outbreak in 1832 shaped the Paris we know today

1832 - The deadly epidemic that helped shape today's Paris RFI Hidden Paris - Article published the Thursday 18 November 2010 The cholera epidemic as seen by Le Petit Journal illustrated paper Public domain By Molly Guinness At the end of March 1832,...

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8 septembre 2014

Merci pour ce moment, and breaking taboo

(Image source) Things can't really get much worse for French president, François Hollande: the economy is limping, his new government is already in the firing line, Nicolas Sarkozy may be launching a political comeback at any time, unemployment is over...

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10 octobre 2011

Paris's 'Dr Satan' of rue Le Sueur

(Photo: Marcel Petiot in court: Source: Libération de Paris) On March 11th, 1944 when Commissaire Massu went to investigate a putrid smell and thick, acrid smoke emanating from the basement of 21, rue Le Sueur in the 16è arrondissement in Paris, he had...

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1 février 2013

La Cérémonie - Claude Chabrol

(Photo source) La Cérémonie (1995) by the great Claude Chabrol, known as the 'French Hitchcock', and Caroline Eliacheff was based on and adapted from Ruth Rendell’s Judgment in Stone. Chabrol's interest in thrillers was not particularly in the source...

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1 avril 2011

Who (and what) was Jean Paul Sartre?

“A human person is what he is not, not what he is.” The first impact made by Sartre on his French audience came from his play “Mosaic” on what it is to tell a story. It was the tale of a man sitting in a library writing documents. It is cleverly constructed,...

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29 mars 2010

Plums are in season

Dear Everybody I wasn't in the mood for going far today, didn't feel sociable but knew I couldn't stay indoors - cabin fever and after all, it wasn't raining! So, guidebook of info in hand, hat in case the heavens opened and a bottle of water in my bag,...

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1 janvier 2010

Police suspect inside job as Degas pastel

Police suspect inside job as Degas pastel disappears from museum Lizzy Davies in Paris guardian.co.uk , Thursday 31 December 2009 23.05 GMT Les Choristes (The Chorus) by Edgar Degas was on loan from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Photograph: Photo RMN/Herv...

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17 avril 2010

Abelard and Heloise: Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

Today, I wandered off in the direction of the IVè, metro Hôtel de Ville. My mission: the house of Abelard and Héloïse . The story of their tragic, thwarted love has always touched me, and I realised I had never visited their residence on Quai aux Fleurs...

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