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| Green Man |
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| Shirt with tail |
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| Still "life" at the Bastille market |
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| Lemonade stand on the Ile St. Louis |
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| Scientology stand |
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| Three and a half more years and we can rejoin...if they'll have us |
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| Real estate in the city is way too dear for the big hypermarches, so they're at or beyond the peripherique...here's ours, near the Bois de Boulogne, 3+ miles away; once a season is enough for us |
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| Ever attentive to fashion, we have noticed young women increasingly wearing men's suit and sports jackets... |
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| Probably not a tourist |
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| Yes! For sure! Leisure suits are back! |
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| History does repeat itself; for a price |
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| "Our" boulangerie/patisserie, La Parisienne, displaying its newly won "best" baguette prize |
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| Another French Baroque facade--St. Sulpice, near our appart; note that the capitals are Doric...Ionic...Corinthian, like St. Gervais... |
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| We've visited or walked past this famous old Dan Brown church numerous times and never noticed that the two towers are completely different; Vicki theorizes that right one anticipates art deco |
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| Invader, aka Flash Invader, is an anonymous public artist whose work has adorned hundreds of Paris intersections for a couple decades now; above, on Rue de Bonaparte, a couple blocks from us |
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| On Rue de Bourbon; many a smile encountering his/her work |
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| Not so many smiles for the week-long Manifestation Taxi... taxi drivers protesting government reimbursement levels for medical transportation...grid-lock on selected arteries, blaring horns... |
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| Also protesting Ubers...and the USA |
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| Monument for discovery of quinine as treatment for malaria |
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| Jardin de Luxembourg actually has sort of a panhandle... with sculptures and monuments all in a row |
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| Where else would you put a bust of the author of The Flowers of Evil? |
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| To be allowed to go on to the university, high school students have to pass the baccalaureate exams, the most dreaded of which is the philosophy bac exam...spawning a small industry of preparation/Cliff's Notes books; "as seen on TicToc"--what hasn't been seen on TikTok?! |
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| Three shelves of "philo bac" at the FNAC |
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| Also a table of philosophy best-sellers |
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| New medical break-through |
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