http://www.bonjourparis.com/Recent Items by Stories and Destinationsen-usSat, 25 May 2013 09:58:59 -0000This feed is of non-premium articles on bonjourParis.com.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/6Pmzl823rjQ/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/woodson/arles_thmb.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" /><span>If you're a photography lover and you're planning a visit to France this summer, a must see is <em>Les Rencontres d'Arles</em>. Situated in the small southern town of Arles, this summer photography festival was founded in 1970 by a photographer, an author and a historian. Since then, it has gained international renown with exhibits of new work each year. The photographs are displayed in different venues around Arles, and also inhabit atypical exhibition spaces such as old factories and historic churches. The festival starts in July and ends in September.</span></p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/photo-week-may-24-2013/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/photo-week-may-24-2013/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/photo-week-may-24-2013/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/xTysm0CkmM8/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/woodson/nuitmusees_thumb.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" /><span>The European Night of Museums (or <em>la Nuit européenne des musées</em> in French) began in 2005, created by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. It takes place every year on the Saturday nearest to International Museum Day. This year both occasions fall on the same day - today, May 18th! Tonight, museums will close much later, allowing people to experience the cultural institutions by night. Access is most often free to the public. This photo was taken at Paris' Musée d'Art Moderne during last years event. Two million visitors participated in la Nuit des musées in 2012.</span></p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/photo-week-may-18-2013/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/photo-week-may-18-2013/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/photo-week-may-18-2013/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/GcWm2eP0gBc/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/kemp/oxkzun7eywzltlsabc41imattts_2_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" />The Paul Bert &amp; Serpette Markets present: Jardins à la Franҫaise. 2013 is André Le Nôtre's 400th birthday (no darling, nothing to do with the pâtissier). Architect and landscape designer, he was  gardener to the King, King of gardeners, founder of the “Jardins à la Franҫaise” movement. While at Les Puces check out the Starck designed brasserie, Ma Cocotte. And we're keeping an enthusiastic eye on young talent Thibault Sombardier on Quai de New York, chez Antoine.</p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/jardins-la-franaise-ma-cocotte-les-puces-saint-oue/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/jardins-la-franaise-ma-cocotte-les-puces-saint-oue/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/jardins-la-franaise-ma-cocotte-les-puces-saint-oue/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/7S5wSPTYMWQ/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/aran-sue/img_1485a_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="139" height="139" />France and England have been inextricably linked for hundreds of years, so when British landscape designer, Deborah Hart, bought her French country house 5 years ago in the small, southwest village of Estang, she seamlessly brought the best of both worlds together.</p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/french-flair-insiders-view/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/french-flair-insiders-view/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/french-flair-insiders-view/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/lh_WlHidtk0/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/packham/chanel_1a_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" />In an interview in 1954, when asked what she wore to bed, Marilyn Monroe's seductively replied: "Just five drops of Chanel No.5."<br /> <br /> It's famous endorsements like these that make it easy to see how the so-called "scent of a woman" has catapulted from just another perfume, to a cultural icon.</p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/no5-culture-chanel-exhibition/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/no5-culture-chanel-exhibition/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/no5-culture-chanel-exhibition/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/zJUYTMlDK0g/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/mccarthy_anne/1823674a_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" />Baz Luhrmann explores the world of excess and beyond in his new film, 'The Great Gatsby', based on the novel written by former Paris resident, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Luhrmann also directed 'Moulin Rouge', set in 1900s Paris.</p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/film-review-great-gatsby/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/film-review-great-gatsby/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/film-review-great-gatsby/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/WF8M54HXfsY/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/franke/cana_2_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" />The Canal Saint-Martin is another of those lovely treasurers in Paris often not known about by the average traveler. It is a long canal within Paris that connects the Canal de l’Ourcq to the Seine, running underground between Bastille and Republic. When the canal reaches Bassin de la Villette, it widens into what is the largest artificial lake in Paris. The Bassin de la Villette is in the 19th arrondissement and it was filled with water on the 2nd of December 1808 well in advance of the termination of the construction of the canals.</p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/lazy-afternoons-canal-saint-martin/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/lazy-afternoons-canal-saint-martin/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/lazy-afternoons-canal-saint-martin/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/KUADkARwW_I/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/franke/cimg9039a_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" />Are you a fashion victim? Do you sometimes want to buy something that “simply everyone will be wearing”? An ever changing kaleidoscope of looks, accessories, colors, shapes and bling assault us everyday and for every season. How can we not be a fashionista once in awhile?</p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/fashionista-alert/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/fashionista-alert/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/fashionista-alert/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/bpWwTDiRaKA/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/prescott/used_02_couple_under_an_umbrella_c_thomas_salva_-_lumento_pour_la_fondation_cartier_pour_l_art_contemporain,_2013_b_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" />You know that sensation when you lift your foot to find a stair and then realize it’s not there? That shock when you walk into a glass door? That feeling when you try to move out of someone’s way before seeing you’re really only avoiding your own reflection? If you attend the Ron Mueck exhibit currently being held at the Fondation Cartier, prepare yourself to experience those emotions on a deep level and for an extended period of time—Mueck’s hyper-realistic statues will take you aback and leave you there for a long while.</p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/human-ity-ron-mueck-paris/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/human-ity-ron-mueck-paris/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/human-ity-ron-mueck-paris/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/8dEns0Oc4Aw/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/woodson/armistice_thumb.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" /><span>This week France had two consecutive jours fériés (holidays). Wednesday was a commemoration of the 8th of May 1945, which marked the end of World War II in Europe. This armistice is known as Victory in Europe Day in English. On this day, the Allies accepted the surrender of Nazi Germany's armed forces. In this photograph, Winston Churchill waves to crowds in London after officially announcing the war's end to the country.</span></p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/photo-week-may-10-2013/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/photo-week-may-10-2013/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/photo-week-may-10-2013/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/hjxGOtHKdMA/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/moranville/morels_by_mystuart_via_flickr_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" />The first time I had morels was as a teenager growing up in Iowa. A neighbor brought us a brown-paper grocery sack full of them. I didn’t understand why my mother was so thrilled with the haul. Later that night, dinner was simply creamed morels on toast. I’d never had anything like them in my life.</p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/recipe-salmon-morels-french-chef-david-baruthio/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/recipe-salmon-morels-french-chef-david-baruthio/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/recipe-salmon-morels-french-chef-david-baruthio/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/MoymDjWxKo0/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/callan/jamie_cat_callan-authorphoto_2_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" />You see them all over Paris—the elegant femmes d’un certain age (women of a certain age.)  They may not look exactly <em>young</em> per se, but they definitely look beautiful, stylish, intriguing, and sexy.  That’s the trick, really.  These gorgeous women don’t care so much about looking <em>young. </em>They are much more interested in looking alluring, but in a very subtle, grown-up way.</p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/how-french-women-stay-young/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/how-french-women-stay-young/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/how-french-women-stay-young/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/CZASWDEVJ_I/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/kemp/royal_monceau_terrace_020a_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" />Raffles Le Royal Monceau wins a Michelin star for each of its' restaurants and celebrate with sparkling new menus served on a bucolic terrace in the heart of Paris. La Petite Cour is the perfect left-bank classic, with romantic terrace, informal atmosphere and talented new chef. Read Paul Piro's book on Evian and you'll be on the next train to spa-town. Who won the French Top-Chef prize? And, all the President's wine (or nearly) at auction.</p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/royal-monceau-terrace-la-petite-cour-evian-book-pa/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/royal-monceau-terrace-la-petite-cour-evian-book-pa/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/royal-monceau-terrace-la-petite-cour-evian-book-pa/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/87oIHNO9OJA/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/del_monte/verres_rainbow_hi_def_1a_thumbnail.jpeg" alt="" width="140" height="140" />What if someone were to tell you that you could improve your life and make the world a better place simply by modifying your wine-drinking habits? I imagine most of us would be on board. It’s a bit more complicated than that, but reading Olivier Magny’s latest book may induce you to make a few lifestyle changes.</p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/into-wine/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/into-wine/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/into-wine/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/BWF1qn1MrhI/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/lestrange/jazz_thumb.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" />A little lost one night some twenty years or more ago in the 13e or 14e, Joe wanders into a café and hears a woman singing like a jazz angel. He could never find her again... or the café. <em>Encore un amour perdu</em>, but a beautiful memory.</p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/contralto/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/contralto/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/contralto/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/TWISR3jArUA/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/peabody/img_0104a_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" />Foodie-treasures pop up frequently all over Paris. Sleuthing them out is a grand game. Here's one that is quite worthy of the short trip on the #21 bus from central Paris out to the lovely Parc Montsouris or on the RER out to the Cité Universitaire stop.  Xin Jin Lou.  Yes, this is a Chinese traiteur and restaurant. It is also the source of astonishingly good, charitably priced French cuisine.  Don't be put off by the exterior, enter, and request the French menu. Prepare to be surprised and delighted.</p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/xin-xin-lou-foodies-gem-13th/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/xin-xin-lou-foodies-gem-13th/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/xin-xin-lou-foodies-gem-13th/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/QXfEmTzSDKs/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/girdner/ninmiller_thumb.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" />Anais Nin, Henry Miller and Paris are all mysterious entities that live and exist within one another. Through learning about one we learn about the others and the relationship that the three shared is a story that continues to inspire millions of people around the world.</p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/paris-through-eyes-anais-nin/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/paris-through-eyes-anais-nin/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/paris-through-eyes-anais-nin/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/nYKfKlpNxxA/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/woodson/muguet_thumb3.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" /><span>On Wednesday, le 1er mai (worker's day) was celebrated here in France as well as in many other countries which honor the day. The lovely ladies in this photo, taken in 1911, proudly wear their bouquets of muguet (lily of the valley), a tradition that is said to have begun when Charles IX offered the flower in May of 1561. Today, the sweetly scented white bouquets are a ubiquitous site on the first of the month, and a sure sign that spring is on its way.</span></p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/photo-week-may-3-2013/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/photo-week-may-3-2013/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/photo-week-may-3-2013/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/W8dU1U_voBA/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/moranville/livin_spoonful_via_flickr_2_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" />Fresh, local asparagus is finally making its way the markets in abundance. Take advantage, with these French ways to enjoy the spring-green veggie.</p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/three-french-ways-asparagus/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/three-french-ways-asparagus/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/three-french-ways-asparagus/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/oClqO12-oNE/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/mccarthy_anne/z_2_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" />Author Therese Ann Fowler explores the Fizgerald’s time in Paris and beyond, in her much buzzed-about book, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, which debuted at #10 on The New York Times Bestseller List and garnered much media attention from The Wall Street Journal, the Kirkus Reviews and more.</p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/interview-therese-ann-fowler-z-novel-zelda-fitzger/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/interview-therese-ann-fowler-z-novel-zelda-fitzger/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/interview-therese-ann-fowler-z-novel-zelda-fitzger/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/V8ha7YhwJ0o/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/kemp/mactboeufdstoussestats_2_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" />Ma Chère &amp; Tendre is the recently launched steak house where meat lovers meet! Fables de la Fontaine has a talented new toque and a new fish-only menu. Bistro Je The-Me showcases modern food in an authentic 1900's setting. Headed by Carol Duval-Leroy since 1991, Duval-Leroy is one of the few remaining 100% family-owned champagne maisons, ranked in the world's 15 top Champagne houses.</p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/ma-chere-tendre-fables-de-la-fontaine-je-me-bistro/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/ma-chere-tendre-fables-de-la-fontaine-je-me-bistro/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/ma-chere-tendre-fables-de-la-fontaine-je-me-bistro/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/VSQ0xvnFNIo/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/becquiot/lautrec_moulin_rouge,_la_goulue_poster_1891a_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" />After nearly  50 years in France, at age 70, I’m really no longer into climbing the Eiffel Tower or sailing down the Seine river on the “fly boats”, but when an American friend visiting Paris insists on my sharing her birthday celebration by accompanying her to the Moulin Rouge, it’s really difficult to say “no”.</p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/le-moulin-rouge/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/le-moulin-rouge/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/le-moulin-rouge/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/AxaQ4OYwDQY/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/woodson/dynamo_thumb.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" /><span>After a photo shoot last week near the foot of la Tour Eiffel, I crossed from rive gauche to rive droite. It was a beautiful sunny afternoon in Paris, and the Pont de l'Alma provided amazing views of the sparkling Seine. Back on rive droite (my preferred 'rive'), I walked east towards Champs-Élysées – Clemenceau to get on the metro line 13, which many say is the worst (<em>le pire!</em>) metro of Paris' underground system. As I often like to do, I passed along the side of le Grand Palais. That's where I snapped this photo of an unexpected sight...</span></p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/photo-week-april-27-2013/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/photo-week-april-27-2013/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/photo-week-april-27-2013/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/gl-1wKIrFII/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/donner/balm_bar_2_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" />Le Balm. An unusual name for a Parisian restaurant you might think.  However, as soon as you step inside this elegant new establishment in the shadows of the Ministry of Culture on rue de Valois, and are enveloped by the soothing vibes permeating the place, you sort of sigh and say to the gracious hostess, “Where might I be seated, please?”</p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/le-balm-and-le-brooklyn-diner/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/le-balm-and-le-brooklyn-diner/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/le-balm-and-le-brooklyn-diner/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bonjourparis/~3/sa1Knj7-OS8/<p><img style="float: left; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.bonjourparis.com/static/img/donner/georgette-facade-11_md_2_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="140" />Georgette Popincourt. Doesn’t that sound like the name of an Anglo-Parisian heroine in the latest NY Times bestseller? In fact, I like that name so much I think I might even use it.</p> <a href="http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/georgette-popincourt/">Read More...</a> http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/georgette-popincourt/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/georgette-popincourt/