Primary Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • About me
  • Operas
  • Cycling
  • Frankfurt OperaTalk
  • Opern-Gespräche
  • Paris
    • Auteuil
    • Faubourg Saint-Antoine
    • Île de la Cité
    • Latin Quarter
    • Le Marais
    • Montmartre
    • Montparnasse
    • Passy
    • Saint-Germain-des-Prés
  • Vietnam
    • 1964
    • 1965
    • 1995
Search
Menu
Menu

Operas and cycling, and other travels

Get on your bike … and ride to the opera house.

Secondary Menu

Skip to content
  • Austria
    • Bregenz
    • Innsbruck
    • Salzburg
    • Vienna
  • Belgium
    • Antwerp
    • Brugge
    • Brussels
    • Gent
    • Liège
  • CZ
    • Prague
  • Denmark
    • Copenhagen
    • Rødbyhavn
  • France
    • Avignon
    • Belfort
    • Besançon
    • Bordeaux
    • Boulogne-Billancourt
    • Fontainebleau
    • Le Bourget
    • Lille
    • Lyon
    • Maintenon
    • Marseille
    • Massy
    • Metz
    • Montmorency
    • Nancy
    • Nogent-sur-Seine
    • Paris
      • _1st arrondissement
      • _2nd arrondissement
      • _3rd arrondissement
      • _4th arrondissement
      • _5th arrondissement
      • _6th arrondissement
      • _7th arrondissement
      • _8th arrondissement
      • _9th arrondissement
      • 10th arrondissement
      • 11th arrondissement
      • 12th arrondissement
      • 13th arrondissement
      • 14th arrondissement
      • 15th arrondissement
      • 16th arrondissement
      • 17th arrondissement
      • 18th arrondissement
      • 19th arrondissement
      • 20th arrondissement
    • Reims
    • Saint-Cyr-l’École
    • Saint-Denis
    • Saint-Germain-en-Laye
    • Strasbourg
    • Toulon
    • Toulouse
    • Versailles
    • Villeneuve lez Avignon
    • Vincennes
  • Germany
    • Aachen
    • Altenburg
    • Annaberg-Buchholz
    • Augsburg
    • Bacharach
    • Baden-Baden
    • Bad Hersfeld
    • Bad Homburg
    • Bad Wildbad
    • Bamberg
    • Berlin
    • Bielefeld
    • Bonn
    • Braunschweig
    • Bremerhaven
    • Bruchsal
    • Chemnitz
    • Coburg
    • Cologne (= Köln)
    • Darmstadt
    • Dessau
    • Detmold
    • Dortmund
    • Dresden
    • Düsseldorf
    • Eisenach
    • Erfurt
    • Essen
    • Frankfurt am Main
      • Frankfurt OperaTalk
      • Opern-Gespräche
    • Freiberg
    • Freiburg im Breisgau
    • Friedrichsdorf
    • Gelnhausen
    • Gelsenkirchen
    • Gießen
    • Greiz
    • Hagen
    • Halle
    • Hamburg
    • Hannover
    • Heidelberg
    • Hof
    • Kaiserslautern
    • Karlsruhe
    • Kassel
    • Kiel
    • Koblenz
    • Krefeld
    • Künzelsau
    • Leipzig
    • Lübeck
    • Magdeburg
    • Mainz
    • Mannheim
    • Meiningen
    • Mönchengladbach
    • Munich
    • Münster
    • Nürnberg
    • Oldenburg
    • Osnabrück
    • Pforzheim
    • Renchen
    • Rostock
    • Saarbrücken
    • Steigerwald
    • Stuttgart
    • Ulm
    • Weikersheim
    • Weimar
    • Wiesbaden
    • Wuppertal
    • Würzburg
  • Italy
    • Busseto
    • Cremona
    • Milan
    • Verona
  • Netherlands
    • Amsterdam
    • Groningen
    • Maastricht
  • Switzerland
    • Basel
    • Bern
    • Geneva
    • Lausanne
    • Zürich
  • U.K.
    • Edinburgh
    • London
  • Vietnam
    • Phuoc Vinh
    • Saigon
    • Tân Ba
    • Xuan Loc
Home »Posts tagged  Mitterrand

Tag: Mitterrand

Mitterrand and the Panthéon

Posted onApril 28, 2020December 18, 20196 Comments

Every time I ride past the Panthéon in Paris I am reminded of a man I met in Berkeley, California when I was living there in 1967. I was working at that time as News Director of a non-commercial radio station. In the mornings I always walked to work, and one Read More …

Categories_5th arrondissement, Latin QuarterTags1967, Mitterrand

Le Paris de Mitterrand

Posted onApril 27, 2020November 25, 20207 Comments

In the spring of 2019 I was invited to a book-signing in a Paris bookshop, because I had once ordered a book online from the publishing house Editions Alexandrines, so I was on their mailing list. The book in question was Le Paris de Mitterrand by Michèle Cotta, the 30th Read More …

Categories_6th arrondissement, Saint-Germain-des-PrésTagsBookshops, Mitterrand, Simone de Beauvoir, Victor Hugo

François-Mitterrand Library

Posted onApril 26, 2020September 27, 20205 Comments

This is the newest and largest of the five public sites of the French National Library. It was one of the “great projects” — which included the Great Arch, the Opéra Bastille and the Pyramid of the Louvre — that were undertaken during the presidency of François Mitterrand, who was Read More …

Categories13th arrondissementTagsMitterrand

Guided walking tour of Île Saint-Louis

Posted onApril 30, 2019February 7, 20213 Comments

In August 2013 I went on another guided walking tour (in French) that I found listed in the back pages of the now-defunct weekly magazine Pariscope. This was mainly a tour of the Île Saint-Louis, but since that island has no Métro stations, we met at the kiosk by the Read More …

Categories_4th arrondissement, _5th arrondissementTagsCamille Claudel, Cars, Guided walking tours, Mitterrand

A walking tour of Montmartre

Posted onOctober 27, 2018January 26, 20196 Comments

At 9:30 on a Sunday morning a group of VirtualTourist members met here at the Café des 2 Moulins at the suggestion of Paul Smith, who used this as the starting point for a walking tour of Montmartre. Anyone who has seen the film Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain, starring Read More …

Categories18th arrondissement, MontmartreTagsCycling, Guided walking tours, Mitterrand, VirtualTourist

Trocadéro

Posted onSeptember 2, 2018November 17, 20184 Comments

There always seems to be a festive atmosphere up on the roof of the Chaillot Theater, where people from all over the world come to look at the Eiffel Tower. This roof is often referred to as the Esplanade du Trocadéro, but its official name is le Parvis des Libertés Read More …

Categories16th arrondissementTagsMitterrand, Sculpture

Guided walking tour of Montparnasse

Posted onSeptember 1, 2018September 13, 20183 Comments

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 danger of waiting at the wrong one. When I arrived, people asked me if I was the guide, which of Read More …

CategoriesMontparnasseTagsGuided walking tours, Mitterrand, Victor Hugo

Château de la Reine Blanche

Posted onApril 12, 2018February 14, 20202 Comments

Blanche, meaning White, was a popular name for aristocratic ladies in the Middle Ages. There were several queens and princesses named Blanche in various centuries. No one is quite sure which of them this castle was named after, but some think it might have been Blanche de France, a daughter Read More …

Categories13th arrondissementTagsMitterrand

Léopold-Sédar-Senghor footbridge

Posted onDecember 30, 2017May 13, 20182 Comments

This footbridge across the Seine in Paris connects the Garden of the Tuileries on the Right Bank (1st arrondissement) with the Faubourg Saint-Germain on the Left Bank (7th arrondissement), near the Orsay Museum. When I was in Paris in the 1960s there was a nondescript temporary steel footbridge at this Read More …

Categories_1st arrondissement, _7th arrondissementTagsMitterrand, Paris bridges

Hello, I'm Don. Welcome to my blog.

Search this blog…

I appreciate your feedback …

You’ll find a comment box at the end of each post. Your first comment won’t appear until I approve, but after that there should be no delay. Your E-Mail address will not be published.

Follow by E-Mail

Enter your E-Mail address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts. Your E-Mail address will not be published.

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy

Tags

  • 1964
  • 1965
  • 1967
  • 1989
  • 1995
  • Adult education
  • Backstage tours
  • Bastille
  • Beethoven
  • Berlioz
  • Bizet
  • Bookshops
  • Camille Claudel
  • Cars
  • Concert venues
  • Cycling
  • Donizetti
  • Einstein
  • Family history
  • Françoise d’Aubigné
  • Frankfurt Skyline Countdown
  • Gluck
  • Goethe
  • Grétry
  • Grimmelshausen
  • Guided walking tours
  • Händel
  • Heinrich Heine
  • Jacques Offenbach
  • Jewish Museums
  • Konrad Zuse
  • Korngold
  • Krenek
  • Lully
  • Marguerite Duras
  • Massenet
  • Mitterrand
  • Molière
  • Monteverdi
  • Mozart
  • Museums
  • Museums in Paris
  • Music Museums
  • Opera lists by composer
  • Operas
  • Operas in Austria
  • Operas in Belgium
  • Operas in France (outside of Paris)
  • Operas in Paris
  • Operas in Switzerland
  • Operettas
  • Paris bridges
  • Puccini
  • Racine
  • Rhine River
  • River and canal tours
  • Rossini
  • Schiller
  • Sculpture
  • Shakespeare
  • Simone de Beauvoir
  • Strauss
  • Street art
  • Theatre
  • Theatres in Paris
  • Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648)
  • Train travel
  • Universities
  • Urban transport
  • Vauban
  • Vélib'
  • Verdi
  • Verdi's Don Carlo
  • Victor Hugo
  • VirtualTourist
  • Wagner
  • Zemlinsky

Places

  • Austria
    • Bregenz
    • Innsbruck
    • Salzburg
    • Vienna
  • Belgium
    • Antwerp
    • Brugge
    • Brussels
    • Gent
    • Liège
  • CZ
    • Prague
  • Denmark
    • Copenhagen
    • Rødbyhavn
  • France
    • Avignon
    • Belfort
    • Besançon
    • Bordeaux
    • Boulogne-Billancourt
    • Fontainebleau
    • Le Bourget
    • Lille
    • Lyon
    • Maintenon
    • Marseille
    • Massy
    • Metz
    • Montmorency
    • Nancy
    • Nogent-sur-Seine
    • Paris
      • _1st arrondissement
      • _2nd arrondissement
      • _3rd arrondissement
      • _4th arrondissement
      • _5th arrondissement
      • _6th arrondissement
      • _7th arrondissement
      • _8th arrondissement
      • _9th arrondissement
      • 10th arrondissement
      • 11th arrondissement
      • 12th arrondissement
      • 13th arrondissement
      • 14th arrondissement
      • 15th arrondissement
      • 16th arrondissement
      • 17th arrondissement
      • 18th arrondissement
      • 19th arrondissement
      • 20th arrondissement
      • Auteuil
      • Faubourg Saint-Antoine
      • Île de la Cité
      • Latin Quarter
      • Le Marais
      • Montmartre
      • Montparnasse
      • Passy
      • Saint-Germain-des-Prés
    • Reims
    • Saint-Cyr-l’École
    • Saint-Denis
    • Saint-Germain-en-Laye
    • Strasbourg
    • Toulon
    • Toulouse
    • Versailles
    • Villeneuve lez Avignon
    • Vincennes
  • Germany
    • Aachen
    • Altenburg
    • Annaberg-Buchholz
    • Augsburg
    • Bacharach
    • Bad Hersfeld
    • Bad Homburg
    • Bad Wildbad
    • Baden-Baden
    • Bamberg
    • Berlin
    • Bielefeld
    • Bonn
    • Braunschweig
    • Bremerhaven
    • Bruchsal
    • Chemnitz
    • Coburg
    • Cologne (= Köln)
    • Darmstadt
    • Dessau
    • Detmold
    • Dortmund
    • Dresden
    • Düsseldorf
    • Eisenach
    • Erfurt
    • Essen
    • Frankfurt am Main
    • Freiberg
    • Freiburg im Breisgau
    • Friedrichsdorf
    • Gelnhausen
    • Gelsenkirchen
    • Gießen
    • Greiz
    • Hagen
    • Halle
    • Hamburg
    • Hannover
    • Heidelberg
    • Hof
    • Kaiserslautern
    • Karlsruhe
    • Kassel
    • Kiel
    • Koblenz
    • Krefeld
    • Künzelsau
    • Leipzig
    • Lübeck
    • Magdeburg
    • Mainz
    • Mannheim
    • Meiningen
    • Mönchengladbach
    • Munich
    • Münster
    • Nürnberg
    • Oldenburg
    • Osnabrück
    • Pforzheim
    • Renchen
    • Rostock
    • Saarbrücken
    • Steigerwald
    • Stuttgart
    • Ulm
    • Weikersheim
    • Weimar
    • Wiesbaden
    • Wuppertal
    • Würzburg
  • Hong Kong
  • Italy
    • Busseto
    • Cremona
    • Milan
    • Verona
  • Netherlands
    • Amsterdam
    • Groningen
    • Maastricht
  • Switzerland
    • Basel
    • Bern
    • Geneva
    • Lausanne
    • Zürich
  • U.K.
    • Edinburgh
    • London
  • Vietnam
    • Hué
    • Phuoc Vinh
    • Saigon
    • Tân Ba
    • Xuan Loc
Copyright © 2021 Operas and cycling, and other travels. All Rights Reserved.
Theme: Gridalicious Pro Child
Scroll Up
  • Home
  • About me
  • Operas
  • Cycling
  • Frankfurt OperaTalk
  • Opern-Gespräche
  • Paris
    • Auteuil
    • Faubourg Saint-Antoine
    • Île de la Cité
    • Latin Quarter
    • Le Marais
    • Montmartre
    • Montparnasse
    • Passy
    • Saint-Germain-des-Prés
  • Vietnam
    • 1964
    • 1965
    • 1995
  • Austria
    • Bregenz
    • Innsbruck
    • Salzburg
    • Vienna
  • Belgium
    • Antwerp
    • Brugge
    • Brussels
    • Gent
    • Liège
  • CZ
    • Prague
  • Denmark
    • Copenhagen
    • Rødbyhavn
  • France
    • Avignon
    • Belfort
    • Besançon
    • Bordeaux
    • Boulogne-Billancourt
    • Fontainebleau
    • Le Bourget
    • Lille
    • Lyon
    • Maintenon
    • Marseille
    • Massy
    • Metz
    • Montmorency
    • Nancy
    • Nogent-sur-Seine
    • Paris
      • _1st arrondissement
      • _2nd arrondissement
      • _3rd arrondissement
      • _4th arrondissement
      • _5th arrondissement
      • _6th arrondissement
      • _7th arrondissement
      • _8th arrondissement
      • _9th arrondissement
      • 10th arrondissement
      • 11th arrondissement
      • 12th arrondissement
      • 13th arrondissement
      • 14th arrondissement
      • 15th arrondissement
      • 16th arrondissement
      • 17th arrondissement
      • 18th arrondissement
      • 19th arrondissement
      • 20th arrondissement
    • Reims
    • Saint-Cyr-l’École
    • Saint-Denis
    • Saint-Germain-en-Laye
    • Strasbourg
    • Toulon
    • Toulouse
    • Versailles
    • Villeneuve lez Avignon
    • Vincennes
  • Germany
    • Aachen
    • Altenburg
    • Annaberg-Buchholz
    • Augsburg
    • Bacharach
    • Baden-Baden
    • Bad Hersfeld
    • Bad Homburg
    • Bad Wildbad
    • Bamberg
    • Berlin
    • Bielefeld
    • Bonn
    • Braunschweig
    • Bremerhaven
    • Bruchsal
    • Chemnitz
    • Coburg
    • Cologne (= Köln)
    • Darmstadt
    • Dessau
    • Detmold
    • Dortmund
    • Dresden
    • Düsseldorf
    • Eisenach
    • Erfurt
    • Essen
    • Frankfurt am Main
      • Frankfurt OperaTalk
      • Opern-Gespräche
    • Freiberg
    • Freiburg im Breisgau
    • Friedrichsdorf
    • Gelnhausen
    • Gelsenkirchen
    • Gießen
    • Greiz
    • Hagen
    • Halle
    • Hamburg
    • Hannover
    • Heidelberg
    • Hof
    • Kaiserslautern
    • Karlsruhe
    • Kassel
    • Kiel
    • Koblenz
    • Krefeld
    • Künzelsau
    • Leipzig
    • Lübeck
    • Magdeburg
    • Mainz
    • Mannheim
    • Meiningen
    • Mönchengladbach
    • Munich
    • Münster
    • Nürnberg
    • Oldenburg
    • Osnabrück
    • Pforzheim
    • Renchen
    • Rostock
    • Saarbrücken
    • Steigerwald
    • Stuttgart
    • Ulm
    • Weikersheim
    • Weimar
    • Wiesbaden
    • Wuppertal
    • Würzburg
  • Italy
    • Busseto
    • Cremona
    • Milan
    • Verona
  • Netherlands
    • Amsterdam
    • Groningen
    • Maastricht
  • Switzerland
    • Basel
    • Bern
    • Geneva
    • Lausanne
    • Zürich
  • U.K.
    • Edinburgh
    • London
  • Vietnam
    • Phuoc Vinh
    • Saigon
    • Tân Ba
    • Xuan Loc