Articles tagged ‘History’
La Poste, Culturally Speaking
By Parisgirl | August 27th, 2007 |
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In France, La Poste or The Post Office is much more than just a place to buy stamps. You can also do your banking at the post office, and before the days of mobile phones and phone cards, foreign students used to go to the post office to make their long distance phone calls.
But today, [...]
Liberation of Paris
By Parisgirl | August 24th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The last week of August is a great time to be in Paris - to remember the liberation of the city at the end of World War II (August 25, 1944). Today’s Le Parisien treats us to a video of the liberation.
It’s impossible, unless you had been living in Paris at the time of [...]
Paris Sculpture & Architecture: Free to View 24/24
By Parisgirl | August 17th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Photo by Chris Card Fuller ©2007
You don’t have to go to a single museum when you’re in Paris. The street is your museum. Walk in Paris’s old neighborhoods like the Marais on Paris’s Right Bank, Metro: St. Paul or the Ile de la Cite and Ile St. Louis in the middle of the Seine [...]
Hotels with a History
By Parisgirl | August 8th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The first time I heard about the Hotel Lutetia was when Eva and Werner Bernstein came to Paris. Werner and Eva met in Rochester, New York. She was a dentist and he showed up in her office just as she was getting ready to finish up for the day. As he [...]
Confessions of a Montparnasse Model: Or How I Spent My Summer Vacation
By Parisgirl | July 26th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Cite Fleurie
Photo by Chris Card Fuller ©2007
Armand LaCroix in his atelier at Cite Fleurie, 1977
Photo by Chris Card Fuller ©2007
I’d like to say I did it for art. Or quite simply, to become part of Montparnasse history.The truth is, for students in Paris,finding a summer job is no easy task. That was true in [...]
Paris’s Piaf: Slice of Post World War I Paris
By Parisgirl | July 5th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
There are plenty of good reasons to see Olivier Dahan’s film “La Vie en Rose” a biography of singer Edith Piaf. She was born in Paris in 1915. She lived in the Belleville district of Paris (in the northeast which remains to this day a working class neighborhood). If director Martin Scorsese still plans [...]
A Plea from Ben Franklin
By Parisgirl | June 10th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Is it possible that the French government has greater esteem for the venerable ole Ben Franklin than our very own US of A? I just received a note from ‘Ben’ even though it was not written with a quill pen. Apparently the French embassy is flying Ben to Paris for a special [...]
Second Chance - Hotel de Duc de Lauzun
By Parisgirl | May 30th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Duc de Lauzun makes a surprise appearance
Photo by Mme Soleranski ©2007
Those of you who were out of town for the May 10th visit to the Hotel de Lauzun now have another opportunity to visit the ‘Petit Versailles’ which is normally closed to the public.
This visit will be organized on June 14th. Reservations must be [...]
Isis in Paris, The Black Madonna
By Parisgirl | May 29th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Image from www.pantheon.org
Most guidebooks will tell you that the early settlers along the Seine River were called Parisii. The Paris Blue Guides suggest that the Parisii or Quarisii were part of the Celtic population of the Second Iron Age, coming from Germany.
Today I read another theory: “By certain archeologists, the word Paris is [...]
Theatrical Tour of the Hotel de Lauzun
By Parisgirl | May 15th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
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History, for so many people seems a to be a dull litany of dates and trends until suddenly some place, event or personnage from the past literally collides into your own past. That’s how I felt last Thursday May 10, 2007 when we sat in the Salle des Guardes at the [...]
