The Parisians LOVE Christmas! They start working on it even before Americans do and there is evidence of La Fête Noël everywhere you look. The streets, stores and monuments don their decorations insisting you get in the spirit. Even with the massive crowds of shoppers competing for les cadeaux parfaits and a place to [...]
Posted on December 17th, 2008 by dianagene
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The patron saint of Paris is Saint Genevieve, who in life was queen to King Clovis. In 507 A.D. they were the first to build a basilica on the site of what would become Montagne (Mount) St. Genevieve in what is now the Latin Quarter of Paris.
Then in 1744, Louis XV who attributed recovery of [...]
Posted on December 13th, 2008 by dianagene
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OR Musée Fragonard: Believe it or Not!
When last saw our happy travelers, they were surrounded by the opulence and whimsy of Versailles and Koons (see segment: Ver - Sigh)
This segment is nothing like that.
Let us leave the historians to their history and you can read what they have to say about Honare Fragonard. But [...]
Posted on December 7th, 2008 by dianagene
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