Paris Boutique - Les Mégères

Les Mégères


A girly boutique on Rue de Cotte
with accessories, wearables,and gifts...


Hummm, think I will
go shopping this weekend.


bon weekend

Les Mégères

16, rue de Cotte

75012, Paris

 

Pâtisserie Thevenin - des gâteaux

The window at Thevenin

will surely tempt you.

For me, 

I will have the pistache et framboise

miam-miam

Pâtisserie Thevenin

5, rue Notre-Dame des Champs

75006, Paris

Promenade Plantée

Promenade Plantée

ou Coulée Verte

This elevated green walkway was created from an obsolete railway structure 

and runs for almost three miles above the Viaduct des Arts.  

It provides a scenic walk above the busy sidewalks.

Seen in the background are "chimney tracks" 

and I will tell you more about these later.

Promenade Plantée

75012, Paris

l'architecture de Paris

The architecture of Paris

How can you be in a particular spot more than 20 times 

and miss this spectacular frieze?

Don't miss the details

Palais Royal

75001, Paris

Palais Royal - la trottinette

Les Colonnes de Buren

Amid the 280 truncated black and white columns 

of Palais Royal's Les Colonnes de Buren 

one often sees children of all ages (adults included).  

They pose on top of the columns, 

hide behind the rows, 

and even ride in on a trottinette from time to time.

Les Colonnes de Buren

Palais Royal

75001, Paris

Église Sainte Étienne du Mont

Église Sainte Étienne du Mont


This church with its storied history is exquisitely detailed
and filled with stained glass windows, the only rood screen in France,
and an abundance of light.


bon dimanche

Église Sainte Étienne du Mont

75005, Paris

 

 

Jardin du Palais Royal - la fountaine

Jardin du Palais Royal

the fountain

This cloistered garden with its mesmerizing fountain

provides a place of solitude and quiet

...one of my favorite quiet places in Paris

joyeux anniversaire, Maman

Jardin du Palais Royal

75001, Paris

Palais Royal - ça me manque

The Fountains of Pol Bury

This captivating sculpture with motion, water, and reflection 

has been missing since at least 2011.

The area has been under renovation, 

but will this be reinstalled or will it go the way 

of many of the city's modern art installations...

disappearing forever.

Fountains of Pol Bury

Gallery d'Orléans, Palais Royal

75001, Paris

La Tour Eiffel en automne

 

 

 

La Tour Eiffel

 

 

 

In the winter,

in the spring,

in the summer,

 

Can it be that the best season is autumn?

 

 

Poor M. Eiffel.  He did not live long enough to know

just how beloved his 'temporary structure' has become.

 

 

 

 

La Tour Eiffel

75007, Paris

 

 

 

 





Marais - la porte

 

 

le Marais

 

 

 

A door,

old and weathered,

patched and painted and patched again,

massive and imposing.

 

 

It has seen the turning of centuries,

the passing of time,

revolution and rebirth.

 

 

Its name is history...

 

 

 

Une porte

le Marais

75004, Paris



 

 

 



Le Nemours

Le Nemours

Briskly walking hand in hand to meet friends 

at Nemours for a morning café...

Wish we were there right now

(joyeux anniversaire, Michelle)

Le Nemours

2, galerie de Nemours

75001, Paris

Shakespeare and Company

Shakespeare and Company

This charming, storied bookstore serves as a regular bookstore, 

as second-hand bookstore, and as a reading library. 

It is so much more than a tourist destination 

and the interior looks much like it must have 60 years ago 

when it was opened by George Whitman.  

Today, his daughter runs it as her father did, 

opening the space for young writers to work and live.

With the full color of autumn, 

the leaves provide a coordinated color-match with the storefront.

Shakespeare and Company

37, rue de la Boûcherie

75005, Paris

Église Saint-Antoine-des-Quinze-Vingts - l'orgue

Église Saint-Antoine-des-Quinze-Vingts

the primary organ

This great organ comes from the instrument built 

by the renown Aristide Cavaille-Coll in 1894 for the mansion of Baron Espée.  

It was moved from the Baron's residence on 

Avenue Bois de Boulogne to Saint-Antoine in 1909.

You can click here to listen to a short piece on this organ.

Like many churches, there is a second organ, 

a practice organ for the choir, which I will show you another time.

bon dimanche

Église Saint-Antoine-des Quinze-Vingts

57, rue Traversière

75012, Paris

Mona Bismarck American Center - l'escalier

Mona Bismarck American Center

This hôtel particulier was built at the end of the 19th century and remodeled by Stéphane Boudin in the 1950s for Mona Bismarck.  The windows, woodwork, and structural details retain the elegance of its origins.  

Mona Bismarck was a philanthropist, a beautiful, wealthy woman who divided her time among residences in New York, Paris, Palm Beach, and Capri.  Her legacy lives on in this museum just across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower with its art exhibitions.  You can even have a party in the ornate premier étage salons with an unobstructed view of the Tower.

Mona Bismarck American Center

34, avenue de New York

75016, Paris 

Le soleil! Ceci mérite des applaudissements!

The Sun!

This merits a round of applause!

It was a bright sunny day and the staging of this window 

made it appear that the gloves were applauding.

There were at least four more colors that did not make it into this photo, 

and I would have loved to have them all!

bon weekend

JB Guanti boutique
59, rue de Rennes

75006, Paris

If you want to see some clever reflections through photography 
have a look here at James' Weekend Reflections.  
There is a different collection of reflections every Friday.

Vingt-Cinq

Number Twenty-Five

I think that if I lived here I would not give an address for visitors 

but would say instead, "Sous la bouche ouverte du lion!"

"Under the open mouth of the lion!"

25, rue Charlemagne

75004, Paris

Dans ma chambre!

No, these racoons were not in my bedroom, 

but they made an eye-catching window display on Rue du Bac.

I have certainly never seen 

un raton laveur in Paris!

Rue du Bac

75007, Paris

Un petit repas

After a full day in Paris

this is my preferred evening meal along with fresh fruit. 

And, yes, that is a very large slab of amazing French butter.

After a recount of the day's adventures

over this simple but delicious repas,

it is back out to capture the night scenes with our cameras.

When you are walking over 20,000 steps a day,

the French butter and baguettes do not "stick on you" for long.

miam-miam! 

l'apartement

75006, Paris



Belleville - Rue Dénoyez

Rue Dénoyez - graffiti street

This street of abandoned buildings and closed shops 

has been transformed as a palette for graffiti artists, 

welcomed by the Belleville community 

and supported by nearby stores, cafés, and markets.

Each time you visit this street, the canvas will have changed,

 and you might find one of these artists at work.

Rue Dénoyez

(between Rue de Belleville and Rue Ramponeau)

75020, Paris

Métro Belleville

Église Saint-Joseph-des-Nations et la Basilique du Sacré Coeur de Montmartre

This view from Le Perchoir in the 11ième, 

looking northwest,

shows at least two churches on the horizon:  

Église Saint-Joseph-des-Nations

which is about four blocks away 

and the recognizable Sacré Coeur in the distance.

bon dimanche

a view of churches from Le Perchoir

14, rue Crespin du Gast

75011, Paris

 

Rue du Cherche-Midi

Between the windows on the premier étage (first floor above the street)

 is this charming piece of architectural detail.  

The plaque says simply "au cherche-midi"

19, rue du Cherche-Midi is a few steps away 

from Poilane the reknown bakery.  

The street traces the route of an old Roman road 

and is situated in one of Paris' most sought-after residential neighborhoods 

with its 18th and 19th century homes.

19, rue du Cherche-Midi

75006, Paris

Paris Métro - Ligne 4, Station Cité

Station Cité

Line 4

This Métro station is an impressive 62 feet under ground, 

and the stairs, lift, rails, and platform are all contained in two metal caissons.  

Built in 1911, it took a full year to complete. 

This entire platform area is under the Seine! 

bon weekend

Paris Métro, Ligne 4, Station Cité

75004, Paris

Brume, brouillard et pluie - Jardin des Tuileries

Jardin des Tuileries

The mist, fog and rain generally appear with a vengeance in November, 

but October can have a damp week or two also.

Remember, "a misty, foggy, rainy day in Paris

beats a great day at home"* 

Enjoy the moment

Jardin des Tuileries

75001, Paris

*according to Holly,

French-girl wanna-be

Square René-Viviani

Square René-Viviani

In the midst of this square is this odd sculpture 

known as the Saint Julien fountain.  

It was constructed by Frenchman Georges Jeanclos in 1995 

and based on a tale of a curse by witches (with many characters), 

a tale told and retold since the Middle Ages.

It is an interesting square near the Seine and Notre Dame.  

I can hear the crunch of the "Paris gravel."

Square René-Viviani

75005, Paris

Merci! - une petite fille avec un manteau jaune

Merci

For concept shopping in the Marais, this is the place.

Clothing, designs for the home, a used book café, 

and more features all artfully displayed.

In the courtyard of Merci, 

this little girl with the yellow coat

has been shopping...

Must be a French girl

Merci

111, boulevard Beaumarchais

75003, Paris

Place des Vosges - les ombres

Place des Vosges

Designed and built in a perfect square over 400 years ago, 

the arcades frame the inner courtyard/park.  

The inauguration of this open air square in 1612 

was witness to the celebration of royals in a double wedding: 

King Louis XIII to Anne of Austria and of his sister Elizabeth to Philip IV of Spain.

The brick and stone design is typically seventeenth century French 

and has been attributed to Louis or Clement Métezauh 

or Jacques Androuet de Cerceau.  

It is amazing that these buildings survived turbulent times relatively intact.  

However, the bronze statue of Louis XIII was melted down by the Revolutionaries 

and replaced two centuries later.

Place des Vosges

75004, Paris

Église Saint-Étienne du Mont

Églies Saint-Étienne du Mont

This side entrance of Saint-Étienne 

are closed but the ornate doorway is stunning.  

Many will recognize it from the movie "Midnight in Paris"

Built between 1492 and 1626, the light interior is filled with cherubs and angels.  

I would put it high on your list.

bon dimanche

Église Saint-Étienne du Mont

1, place Ste-Geniviève

75005, Paris

Une boîte de bruyère

A box of heather

This rustic display of heather in full bloom 

was seen at Sylvine fleurs on Rue Beaubourg in the Marais.

There is never a shortage of flowers 

in the shops of Paris.

bon weekend

Sylvine fleurs

98, rue Beaubourg

75003, Paris

Boulevard Raspail - une femme et son vélo

A woman and her bicycle

It was more than just a light rain, 

but she was dressed for the ride.

Her basket contained a briefcase and a black pinwheel, 

and there was another wicker basket to the side of the back wheel.  

This was no pleasure ride,

 but a well-orchestrated, 

any-kind-of-weather daily commute.

Chic, stylish, adventurous...

must be a French Girl.

Boulevard Raspail et Rue de Sèvres

75006, Paris

 

Bistrot Paul Bert - la terrasse

Bistrot Paul Bert

Only one table was vacant 

but it was well after the serving hours for déjeuner.  

Parisians have a tendency to linger over a meal, 

engaging in conversation.  On a mild, sunny autumn day, 

there is no reason to hurry the afternoon.

When in Rome Paris.....

Bistrot Paul Bert

18, rue Paul Bert

75011, Paris

"Movement" - City Daily Photo Theme Day

Square Trousseau

This young boy of three or four was moving at an amazing speed,

dodging the other "wheeled-children."  He was almost a blur as he passed in front of my camera.

The children of Paris learn to ride quickly in the parks and gardens.

zoom-zoom!

Le Square Trousseau

75012, Paris

Métro Ledru Rolin

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