Jacquemart et André

Inside the opulent mansion of art collector couple par excellence Nélie Jacquemart and Édouard André, now a museum.

 

Musée Jacquemart-André

158 Boulevard Haussmann 75008

 

Right now:

 

Turner, paintings and watercolors

The Tate Collection

 

Ends January 11, 2021

 

- By reservation only -

Blue morning

Paris woke up today wondering if a decision to close its restaurants and cafés yet again for a Phase II confinement had been made. And the virus continues....

Bleu Matin

74 rue Lamarck 75018

 

Update: restaurants and cafés will be allowed to stay open with strict health protocols in place; bars serving alcohol (without food) won't be allowed to serve

 

Cuisine cuisine

In French, cuisine is a type of cooking, as in English, but it also translates literally to, "kitchen."

Above: cuisine de grandmère; a Paris cuisine

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 Merci A&JM for an unforgettable evening

 

If winter comes

 

Leaves have started to fall in Père Lachaise Cemetery.

 

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Yesterday was National Poetry Day in the U.K.

 

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From "Ode To The West Wind" by Percy Bysshe Shelley

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed ...

The trumpet of a prophecy!

O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

 

 

Turner: Tate Collection

"Each of his paintings is a living world which is enough in itself." R.J., "Turner à l'Orangerie", Le Monde 2/16/1948

 

Turner, paintings and watercolors

The Tate Collection

 

Ends January 11, 2021

 

Musée Jacquemart-André

158 Boulevard Haussmann 75009

 

- By reservation only - 

 

Street meet

 

 

Saturday at the rue Caulaincourt vide-grenier, a sort of swap meet-flea market that means, "empty attic."

Picket fence

 A Montmartre café with a leafy picket fence evokes the feel of a French village.