Indicateur d’Itineraires
Here’s a Blast from the Past for you: an electric “Indicator of Itineraries” such as used to be found in about half of the Paris Métro stations. I came across Read More …
Category: Paris
The Loft of the Goncourts
In France there is a prestigious literary prize called the Le prix Goncourt, which is awarded each December to the author of “the best and most imaginative prose work of Read More …
Verdi’s Troubadour at the Opéra Bastille
This audience at the Opéra Bastille in Paris turned out to be highly enthusiastic, rewarding all four of the lead singers in Verdi’s Troubadour with bravos and prolonged applause after Read More …
Guided walking tour from Palais Royal
In May 2013 I took a guided walking tour of the Palais Royal area in the 1st and 2nd arrondissements of Paris. The guide turned out to be a man Read More …
Louvre: Hall Napoléon
When the Pyramid at the Louvre was being built in the 1980s, they also built a large underground exposition space called the Hall Napoléon, which is now used for temporary Read More …
How to Become Parisian in One Hour?
The Théâtre des Nouveautés (Theater of Novelties or News or Innovations) is one of the many theaters along the Grands Boulevards in Paris. Most of these theaters specialize in contemporary Read More …
Guided walking tour of Montparnasse
The meeting point for this guided walking tour (in French) was the Métro station Notre-Dame des Champs. This is a small station with only one entrance, so there was no Read More …
Willy Ronis photography exhibition
This was one of those rare exhibitions that changed my whole way of looking at the world. When I came out onto the street (Rue de Ménilmontant) I had the Read More …
The three Dumas
This square in the ‘Quarter of the Monceau Plain’ in Paris is now officially called Place du Général-Catroux after the French five-star General Georges Catroux (1877-1969), who was one of Read More …
Jean-Jacques who?
In the ‘Quarter of the Monceau Plain’, one of the four quarters of the 17th arrondissement in Paris, there is an entire ‘national’ museum devoted to the painter Jean-Jacques Henner Read More …