PARIS HAS NO MOUNTAINS, NO SEACOAST AND ITS RIVER IS UNIMPRESSIVE: ITS ALLURE COMES FROM THE ROYAL IMPRINT AND FEAR OF INSURRECTION.
Monday, December 31, 2018
Monday, November 5, 2018
A CHINESE FEAST ON AN UNLIKELY STREET
AN ASIAN PORTAL CALLS OUT IN THE DARK
(SINCE 1986)
The tower is in the distance announces the Asian neighborhood, but this restaurant* is far away, on a street where many residents are elderly and that at night reminds of provincial quiet.
*For more about it, please click and scroll down.
La mer de Chine
159 rue du Château des Rentiers
Asian music plays softly in the night.
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Prestigious recommendations
Madame Figaro and Gault-Millau
"The new generation has taken up the baton," says Simon (the French name he has chosen), who now runs the family restaurant:
Attracting clients to such an unlikely spot
is proof of excellence.
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Sunday, September 30, 2018
II.4. TO DO WITH KIDS (OR WITHOUT THEM)
MENU: 2.4. To do with kids or without them
Rue du Moulin des Prés, 13th
Street art, a mini-forest,
diversity and the Louvre
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Saturday, September 29, 2018
2.4.1. IF YOU COME WITH LITTLE BOYS (ADAPT TO LITTLE GIRLS)
Rue Saint-Denis: account here
That France's most famous king (Louis XIV, the Sun King) was sorry he'd gone to war is a way to end the story.
Chosen for boys because it passes next to Europe's most important site for boys' and young men's casual clothes:
It comes from a cemetery, where everyone came to meet, fight, sell, flirt, party.
Tell them about the "Court of Miracles" next to it.
You will walk toward an arch of triumph that towers over the route: the link takes you to its story.
That France's most famous king (Louis XIV, the Sun King) was sorry he'd gone to war is a way to end the story.
'My child, you will be a great king; do not imitate me [...] in the taste I had for war; try on the contrary, to have peace with your neighbors [...] and to relieve your subjects, which unfortunately I did not do.' "
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The arc is a few steps away from
where lived a witch,
who destabilized the Sun King's court.
For the story please click here,
and for the background here.
Show them the pictures.
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2.4.2. STREET ART AND A TRUE STORY
MENU: 2.4.2.Street art & true story
PEOPLE COME TO PHOTOGRAPH THE WALLS OF "BUTTE AUX CAILLES,"* ON THE SOUTHEASTERN FRINGE
* "Quail hilltop"
For kids a game,
for adults discovering a neighborhood
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Friday, September 28, 2018
KIDS RELATE TO THE TROUBLES OF A TEEN-AGED KING...
AND HIS COUP D'ETAT INTRIGUES THEM*
*For how Louis XIII came to power, please click Fatal passion at the Louvre
Maurice Leloir in Richelieu by Théodore Cahu, 1901, a history of France for children
The court ignores him and he pretends to be retarded...
He threatens to shoot his toy cannon at ladies-in-waiting.
But a few allies know differently and when he is 15, help him put through a coup d'état:
"At last I am king!" he cries from a palace window.
Louis has left signs so that his followers can join him at the castle where he hides.
The children look for them.
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Thursday, September 27, 2018
START AT THIS MARKET
ON TUESDAY, FRIDAY OR SUNDAY MORNINGS AT THE CORVISART MÉTRO STOP
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| Adapted from a Google map |
The street behind the flower stand is filled with pictures:
At the grocery turn right (on "Main Street," rue de la Butte-aux Cailles) to come to a crossroad ("place de la Commune"):
More here.
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
COME TO A "CASTLE"
WALK DOWN THE LANE WHERE THESE NEIGHBORS CHAT
(RUE BUOT)
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Turn back...
Pass the grocery and take rue de la Butte-aux-Cailles in reverse, past cheerful cafés and restaurants...
A crêperie
Descend the next small street to the right (passage Boiton)...
Saint-Anne's in the Butte-aux-Cailles: more later.
At the church, return to the restaurants and continue down the street:
At its end, the young king's hideaway...
And rewards:
Continue at
the magnificent parc de Choisy
and have dinner in Chinatown.
End of this section.
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