Copy
View this email in your browser

à la une

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

Copyright © 2019 Faraway Places, All rights reserved.


Want to change how you receive these emails?
You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp