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This Saturday – Pay a Nocturnal Visit to Paris’s Museums…For Free! Entering the Louvre at night without paying would normally result in a visit to the Commissariat de Police, but this Saturday the inhabitants of Paris will be encouraged to…
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Surprises await you at the Balzac Cinema just off the Champs Elysées. On a recent Saturday night showing to watch a version originale (V.O.) film – popular especially among ex-pats — we were handed a programme which suggested that we were at a…
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Most people these days like options. More and more people are perfecting multitasking as it becomes easier and easier to get distracted with new toys, electronics, trinkets, and gadgets in this highly consumer-driven world. So wouldn’t it make sense that…
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Over 500 French and foreign artists display their modern art at this exhibition at Place de a Bastille, through this Sunday, May 2. The theme this year is “scenes urbainesâ€, meaning simply “urban scenes.†Art pieces include an American flag…
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Learning another language is not an easy task. It involves memorization, hours of class work, self-discipline and perhaps the most important ingredient – practice. Flash cards can only take you so far in your quest to attain fluency – at…
Read MoreQuick! First words that come to mind when someone says name traditional French food…….. I bet many people thought of cheese, baguettes, escargots, AND crêpes. Yes, these “flat pancakes†can be found at most cafés and scattered stands around the…
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There are sunny blue skies in Paris and it’s a warm spring day, but all flights are grounded because of a volcano spewing ash in a country that is hundreds of miles away. We are stuck in Paris. Like thousands of…
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Pinacothèque de Paris is showcasing a rare exhibition, “Edvard Munch or the Anti-Screamâ€, which is a retrospective of the work of Edvard Munch, the pioneering Expressionist painter best known for his celebrated painting “The Screamâ€. The exhibition displays around one hundred…
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If your little ones moan or, worse, rebel against the thought of going to a museum, change their minds by taking them to Les Arts Décoratifs (at Le Louvre), which is showcasing a Playmobil exhibition (which only lasts through May…
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