On our last full day in Paris in early June we decided to hop a bus down to la rive gauche (“the left bank”) to visit the relatively new Musee du quai Branly. Located in a modernistic building on the Seine hard by la Tour Eiffel, the museum was inaugurated in 2006 by former President [...]
We’re not morbid people; really, we aren’t. Visiting a Parisian cemetery is like walking around in a beautiful park, only with tombstones. The main inner-city graveyards are all lined with trees and flowers and have substantial collections of art works by famous sculptors. When we took a tour of le cimetière de l’Est, better known [...]
After just twenty-four hours in Paris, I couldn’t wait to report on what went on. Last fall I’d ready an interesting book written by an Australian journalist who married a Frenchman and eventually moved to le premier arrondissement in Paris. In Almost French, Sarah Turnbull lovingly describes la rue Montorgueil, a pedestrian walkway [...]
