Over 400 works by jeweler Rene Lalique are on display right now at the Musee du Luxembourg, showcasing a wide range of art nouveau pieces made between 1890-1912 by this master. Using tradional materials such as gold, diamonds, etc., alongside ivory, opal, and glass, Lalique worked with themes of nature and the female form. A true master of his craft, the house of Lalique is still strong today, using crystal as its main material.
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The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will pefform during the second annual festival at the Hotel de Rohen's outdoor stage. A different program will be presented each week at this lovely hotel particulier in the Marais. See the website for more info. or call 01.42.68.22.14.
]]>Who are you?
I'm Caroline, a woman with a "fiancé" and our child (a girl, 11 years old). I work at home. I don't like my work because it is very dull (I manage universitary books for a big publishing firm), so when I'm fed up with my work, I try to get some pleasure by cooking new things : for instance, a "croque-madame" (toasted cheese and ham sandwich topped with fried egg), with... 16 small quail eggs instead of only one hen egg. Why 16 quail eggs ? Well, to get more pleasure : one mouthful = one yolk explosion inside my mouth. Aaaah, so great ! ;-)
What is your favorite thing to do in Paris?
There are so many things to do in Paris ! If not coming back from one bank of the Seine to the other after a loving night (please try to do it one day ! Cross Alexander III Bridge about 6 AM o'clock, with a blue cloudless sky and a rising sun, the head and the heart full of love, and tell me if Paris is not the most beautiful city in the world... ;-)), so, I was telling you, if not coming back... you can go to walk at the Montparnasse cemetery. No no no, it's not bluesy at all ! It's so quiet, with flowers and nice tombs (you can even see the tombs of famous people : Jean-Paul Sartre et Simone de Beauvoir, who didn't ever live together in the same apartment but are now spending their time together in the same tomb, or also Jacques Demy, the producer : it's the most nice and pretty tomb of all the cemetery, a small green and poetic place right in the middle of the town).
Or you can just sit down during hours in the Luxembourg Garden, or outside the cafés.
When did you start your blog?
2004, in November.
Where do you blog from?
14th arrondisement (near Montparnasse-Raspail square)
Why blog?
Blogging is a great way to be really and personnally creative without being lonesome : you can publish page after page (you don't have to wait until you have finished writing a entire book), and instantaneously you can get reactions, so you can enter into discussion, receive encouragement (or criticism ;-)), laugh and joke with people, and so on. You're not lonesome as any author can be. You're creative like any other author, but you're all day long connected with people. It's very nice to me.
How many other blogs do you read? Which ones?
I prefer surfing : so in fact, each week, I read hundreds of various blogs, it depends of Google answers to my questions !
Sometimes I read culinary blogs, but usually I read political or personal blogs.
Anything else we should know about your blog?
Yes ! My blog is absolutely advertising-free, entirely free, and it always will be. However, I am preparing professional redeployment in connection with my blog : I will leave my job in next December and will soon prepare a culinary book with most of texts and photos from my blog. So, next year, my life will surely be better than now, thanks to my blog. After that, we'll see !...
Who are you?
A native New Yorker who somehow ended up in Paris.
What is your favorite thing to do in Paris?
Walking everywhere; picnics on the Pont des Arts; sitting in churches; browsing in bookstores; spending hours in cafes in Montparnasse or Montmartre, depending on my mood; ending a long day of shopping with a drink on the roof deck at Printemps.
When did you start your blog?
In May 2004, a few months before I moved to Paris.
Where do you blog from?
For now, the 9th, but I have to move at the end of June (and I'm looking for an apartment-- if anyone hears of a cute studio or 2 pièces, do let me know!)
Why blog?
Because it creates a collective experience that is unmatched through any other form of media.
How many other blogs do you read? Which ones?
So many blogs, so little time... I do love The Paris Blog because it rounds up the best of the best, thereby saving me valuable surfing time, and so many of the bloggers are good friends of mine. Then, my friend and colleague from graduate school has a brilliant blog, called Is There No Sin In It. When I have free time I read Go Fug Yourself, which is awesome.
Anything else we should know about your blog?
Much like bloggers themselves, it's a work in progress! for example: I keep meaning to jazz up the template but never get around to it. One of these days...