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This is the free printable May calendar. It really is my favorite of the year.
The Paris Instagram of the Week: This is a ridiculous photo of the Eiffel Tower but I also sort of love it.
We need to mention that Taylor Swift's brand-new video starts with her screaming in French at Brandon Urie, and seems to be set in some pastel-rainbow version of Paris. It's pretty funny.
1. This gives you a sense of how incredible the countryside looks right now — just field after field of bright yellow. Trust: France's rapeseed fields are basically the Holland tulips fields of 2020. Here's another look.
2. A terrifying (not literally but still) look at dating in Paris, in which the ending is (a) not particularly happy and (b) involves a broken toe: "There was almost a refreshing honesty to the fact that the French men I encountered so quickly admitted they were already one half of a couple." One (American) woman I know here says that every French-Anglo couple breaks up because of infidelity (on the French side). Sometimes a cliché isn't a cliché so much as it is a data point.
The best part of this story might be a subhed that simply reads "Vivacious polygamy culture."
3. A French billionaire (François Pinault) put $170 million into a new museum at the Bourse; here's what it'll look like. Re: billionaires, this was the best thing I saw all week.
4. If you're in Boston, this Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition looks worthwhile.
5. There are some good ideas for new shops in Paris here, and I definitely want a piece of that avocado tarte.
6. When Katie Holmes is in Paris, she eats at Les Ombres, which is the restaurant at the Musée du Quai Branly.
7. Hat-tip to B.: The 180,000 bees of Notre Dame are safe. And then this story has some really interesting photos of the cathedral through the ages — please add this one, which I found at the flea market here last weekend.
8 . Guess which French attraction was named "most disappointing"?
A la prochaine,
Diana
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