Café Chairs -- Place du Tetre

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCoG4_m03Mywa-rJ6-6WScHE7quedetiwrf3hPnj8lBEN2T5R6HFd9VkB6-ZS9XtyLHr6EXlAyaYaQudJUNqPmo_bfva7odvbM2CE-KSktwWsfpDpZnAHcMjH8D5Tkn6MfuLKSSpR79iA/s1600/DSC_0308blackandwhite.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512838672206103090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCoG4_m03Mywa-rJ6-6WScHE7quedetiwrf3hPnj8lBEN2T5R6HFd9VkB6-ZS9XtyLHr6EXlAyaYaQudJUNqPmo_bfva7odvbM2CE-KSktwWsfpDpZnAHcMjH8D5Tkn6MfuLKSSpR79iA/s640/DSC_0308blackandwhite.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><div>Here in Place du Tetre are all of these empty café chairs. Where are all of the people we saw swarming this lovely square in Montmartre? Where are all of the t-shirt clad tourists? Where are all of the boom-box hip-hoppers? The costumed characters? The souvenir hawkers? Well, they were here in Place du Tetre, and in front of Sacre Coeur, and on the steps as far as the eye could see.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I found it more restful and less crowded to snap these empty café chairs. I'll be back in December and think it will all be more serene.</div>

Café Chairs -- Place du Tetre

Here in Place du Tetre are all of these empty café chairs. Where are all of the people we saw swarming this lovely square in Montmartre? Whe...

Read more »

Soignez votre anglais...

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtTt_uJ-2KB5eExGS6-Ii86j6MRfLpfuzGdhR5cxrAbRj5OiEEdgZY2spPjdKcmC864vdTlUoAv2ByMtQBkzKhSnUHIaNb4FV2i4wH7rlEyPh2gE5fQe1GwyohdodCk6FIanA60koTns0/s1600/IMG_0226darker.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506937921300657906" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtTt_uJ-2KB5eExGS6-Ii86j6MRfLpfuzGdhR5cxrAbRj5OiEEdgZY2spPjdKcmC864vdTlUoAv2ByMtQBkzKhSnUHIaNb4FV2i4wH7rlEyPh2gE5fQe1GwyohdodCk6FIanA60koTns0/s640/IMG_0226darker.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><div>As you ride in the Métro there are a whole series of these "improve your English" posters.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>This particular one urges one to "treat your English" and to "stop the massacre" of English.... avec une jolie infirmière, bien sûr!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>So, like a tourist I had a big grin and snapped a photo! Well, at least I was not talking loudly and wearing white tennis shoes! This post is for <a href="http://paristhroughmylens.blogspot.com/2010/08/pouvez-vous-le-lire.html"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Virginia</strong></span></a> who is studying her French!</div>

Soignez votre anglais...

As you ride in the Métro there are a whole series of these "improve your English" posters. This particular one urges one to "...

Read more »

Repetto -- For Nanette

<div align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyNnn0cWbFwgiRHxcs6zNjYPyg7xaqMT-6jD8ejji1CAF5viBCEheiXA45DYjE8oNrBfe_OyajXZGe7BotLWzZKNWMGyET6gzJdpRT10owzbrs1SdWfTGXAmmJmY_v_YdJnukFFkj0PVg/s1600/DSC_0730contrast.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512146023633358546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyNnn0cWbFwgiRHxcs6zNjYPyg7xaqMT-6jD8ejji1CAF5viBCEheiXA45DYjE8oNrBfe_OyajXZGe7BotLWzZKNWMGyET6gzJdpRT10owzbrs1SdWfTGXAmmJmY_v_YdJnukFFkj0PVg/s640/DSC_0730contrast.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br />I cannot say how many pairs of pointe shoes I stumbled over growing up, nor the number of times she extended her leg up the passageway wall in an elegant stretch. No one talks about where the hundreds of worn out pink satin shoes went or how many lambs might have been sheared to make the padded cushions protecting the balerina's toes. Nanette, my dear sister and friend, this one is for you.<br /><br /><br />Repetto went on "the list" when Carol of Paris Breakfasts talked about finding the boutique <a href="http://parisbreakfasts.blogspot.com/2010/04/jadore-repetto.html"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>here</strong></span></a>. I had already mapped it out before my arrival in June and walked to this incredible spot just after sunset with three friends (Marie, Mary, and Virginia). It did not matter that it was closed as the windows provided a great peek at an entire wall of pointe shoes, all pink of course.<br /><br /><div align="left"></div><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://www.repetto.com/"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Repetto</strong></span></a><br />22, rue de la Paix<br />Paris </div></div>

Repetto -- For Nanette

I cannot say how many pairs of pointe shoes I stumbled over growing up, nor the number of times she extended her leg up the passageway wall ...

Read more »