Floral Friday

 

CAFÉ PARISIEN

Fresh products - homemade - at all hours

 

A summer garden

 

The gardens of the Palais-Royal bursting with summer.

 

 

Tower Tuesday

 

A suspended Eiffel Tower twinkles in a right bank bookstore.

 

 

Sandwich Sunday

 Generous sandwiches and freshly-made street crêpes at a stall set up outside a boulangerie in the Marais district, but only on Sunday.

 

 

Starck difference

Exhibition:

Philippe Starck: Paris est pataphysique

 

Pataphysics described as "the science of imaginary solutions," is a philosophical invention of French symbolist and writer Alfred Jarry that preceded surrealism.

 

 Musée Carnavalet

 

Ends August 27, 2023

 

Spice is nice

 

 

A shop in Fez or Jerusalem or Istanbul?

No, these exotic spices and wonderful things from all over the world are in Paris in the heart of the old Marais.

 

IZRAËL

30 rue François Miron 75004

 

Beaux pieds

 

"You have beautiful feet, you know!"

A cordonnerie plays off the famous line from old French film, "Le Quai des Brumes" (1938) when Jean Gabin tells Michèle Morgan, "T'as d'beaux yeux, tu sais!"

Translation: "You have beautiful eyes, you know!"