Café afternoons

A sidewalk terrace in Montmartre on a sunny afternoon.

Sitting chef

Chef takes a break after a grueling lunchtime service.

Pulpit

Detail of pulpit inside l'Église Saint-Eustache at Les Halles.

Cages

Stacked cages for sale at the Sunday flower and bird market on Île de la Cité.

The moth

A giant moth is the door handle to a Left Bank gallery.

Day trip: At home with Monet #2

Interior of Impressionist icon Claude Monet's Giverny home with partial view of gardens from a window.

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Un Jour avec Claude Monet à Giverny by Adrien Goetz (Flammarion)

 

Day trip: At home with Monet #1

On the occasion of the publication of Un Jour avec Claude Monet à Giverny by Adrien Goetz (Flammarion), I was invited on a press trip to what was once Claude Monet's home in Giverny, complete with a private lunch arranged for us in the Impressionist painter's former atelier.

Above: photos don't do justice to the gardens at Giverny, a pleasant hour and a half drive from Paris