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When the alarm clock rang this Saturday morning at 6 a.m. I regretted having decided to spend the day in Amiens, but once I was on the train from Gare du Nord with direction Amiens I started to get excited about discovering a new town. You arrive at the...
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What happens when a Danish film is watched by a group of Frenchmen? Last night in our local CinéClub I watched the Danish film Festen (in English: The Celebration) link , and after the film followed a discussion with the local cinéphiles.... I had already...
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I am not sure that Parisians would like Seine Rive Gauche to be compared to the Docklands in London, but I think that the area east of Gare d'Austerlitz towards the Périférique at Ivry has something of the Docklands to it. There is the proximity of water...
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Do you remember the film with Glenn Close, Uma Thurman, Keenu Reeves, Michelle Pfeiffer and John Malkovich? For a refresher please read: link What happens when John Malkovich directs the play instead of playing a role in the play? Well, I saw the result...
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Once a week after work I go to a talk about a chosen subject. Last week I went to the talk about historical prisons in Paris An evening in prison . Tonight the venue was the Institut Catholique in rue d'Assas where the Centre des Etudes de la Mer had...
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I wouldn't have thought that it would be possible to put those two personalities in the same sentence, but, alas, on Sunday afternoon I managed to squeeze in both of them! Out of curiosity I had decided to go to a public meeting held by the presidential...
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Can a building from 1927 be modern still today? On this morning's guided walk I got my answer, which was a big confirmative YES! The walk started at Trocadero from where you have a breathtaking view across the Seine to the Eiffel Tower. Just down the...
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It is impossible not to like Berthe Morisot, the "only" well known French female impressionist painter. Musée Marmottan Monet has recently opened an exhibition entirely dedicated to her, and I could not resist the opportunity to see the paintings of the...
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Last weekend I visited a medicalised institution for people who need care after an operation. Do you remember the old woman in A mobile phone for an old lady ? Well, her 86 year old husband recently had to undergo a serious operation and is now spending...
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rue de l'Hirondelle, 6th arr. on a Monday evening In the voulted cave of the bar La Vénus Noire, where people like Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Oscar Wilde would have a drink at a time when the bar was known as the Caveau de Bolée,...
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