Man in café

A lone coffee drinker savors a read at a corner café in the Marais district.

Courtyard lunch

Waiting to be seated in courtyard at Hôtel Costes' restaurant, where Yves Saint Laurent ate lunch every day.

Hôtel Costes

239-241 rue Saint Honoré 75001

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Exhibition: 
On the occasion of the opening of the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris
October 2017 

Forbidden fruit

  This fresco attributes Adam and Eve's fall to figs, not apples.

Amber

A church, buildings en face and a paris métro sign glow amber in the early evening.

Harvest parade

Montmartre's mad annual vendanges parade celebrates the fall wine harvest, with regions from all over France represented.

Below: one of several drum bands winding through streets

And here they come... Best results w/earphones

 

Wine crawl

No shortage of cozy wine bars on the backside of the Palais-Royal.

Cheese please

To every season its cheese, and right now Paris fromageries are stocking up on Vacherin-Mont d'Or, so luscious and creamy that each is sold with its own wooden spoon for scooping.

Below: two exquisite goat's milk cheeses, one honey-coated then rolled in toasted crushed pistachios, the other teamed with avocado oil, pine nuts and whole pistachios