Archive for January, 2008
Delving into Musee d’Orsay
After the Louvre Museum, the Musee d’Orsay, is perhaps one of Paris’s most popular museums with visitors. Representing French artists and sculptors’ works produced between 1848 to 1914, this unique collection includes many of the Impressionist masters such as Monet and Renoir, but also the Romantic and Realists, the Nabists, the Symbolists and the Fauvists. The innovators of the day are placed in direct contrast to the ‘official’ artists such as Ingres, Bouguereau and Delacroix to give you a good idea how the painting styles differ, and to judge for yourself the merits of such varied perspectives.
Date: January 4th, 2008 |
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Parisians cope with Smoking Ban
Check out Delphine Perez’s video today about how Parisians are dealing with the smoking ban in Paris’s cafes.
Date: January 3rd, 2008 |
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New Year’s Resolution: Learning to Speak French
So you’ve decided to take French lessons. Maybe you just like the sound of the language or maybe you’ve visited France in the past and been frustrated by not being able to understand what’s being said. Maybe you just want to be able to pronounce ‘bouillabaisse’ when you see it on a menu in a French restaurant. Whatever the motivation, I can only tell you this, watch out! Taking French lessons can take you to all sorts of places you may never have imagined. It may even change your life.
Date: January 1st, 2008 |
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New Parisian Winter Sport: Shopping
It’s January in Paris. Let the sales begin. The word for sale in French is ’solde’. If there’s one reason to come to Paris in January, it has to be wintersales which officially begin January 10th. January 10th to the 20th are the sale dates promoted by the City of Paris, the Chamber of Commerce and the Visitors Bureau. You’ll want to be sure to visit the site www.soldesbyparistouch.com which maps out five distinct ’shopping itineraries’: Chic, Trendy, Romantic, Original, and Creative circuits. I’ve checked out …
Date: January 3rd, 2008 |
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New Year’s Resolution: Visit Paris’s Smaller Museums
If you only have a few days in Paris, you might only have the opportunity to visit one or two museums at the most. If it’s your first trip to Paris, the ‘can’t miss’ museums like the Louvre, the Musee d’Orsay or the Rodin Museum may be at the top of your list, but if you have the luxury of a few extra days in Paris, there are dozens of smaller museums well worth the detour.
My New Year’s resolution is to visit some of those museums I’ve been ‘meaning to visit’, the ones I intend to visited when the leaky ceiling was finally fixed.
The variety of museums is boundless ranging from The ‘Musee de Contrefacon’ the ‘Counterfeit Museum’ to the Smoker’s Museum, the Wine Museum and the Erotic Museum.
Date: January 2nd, 2008 |
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