Mme de Pompadour, the French President, & me
Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 8: In this episode, we visit the French President's palace, the Élysée (that first photo is me, in...
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Lisa
Sep 29, 20231 min read
Classic rue Bonaparte
Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 7 In this episode, we stroll up the street where New Yorker writer Janet Flanner lived, where the...
Lisa
Aug 18, 20231 min read
Zola's complicated life on rue de Bruxelles
Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 6: In this episode, we visit a Haussmann-style street where the great writer Zola once lived....
Lisa
Jun 30, 20231 min read
The Library on the Left Bank
Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 5: In this episode, we visit the American Library in Paris, on the easily-overlooked little street...
Lisa
May 23, 20231 min read
The University of La Nouvelle Vague
Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 4: In this episode, we start in front of the beautiful Sorbonne and walk down the single block of rue...
Lisa
Mar 22, 20231 min read
Medicine, Monks, and Revolutionaries
Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 3: In this episode, we walk along the rue de l’Ecole de Medicine, the Street of the School of...
Lisa
Feb 27, 20231 min read
Art Nouveau into Nouveau Paris
Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 2: In this episode, we stroll North in the 17th arrondissement, focusing on architecture. To begin,...
Lisa
Jan 29, 20231 min read
The Insomniac of rue de la Bûcherie
Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 1: Below, photos to celebrate the quirky history of Left Bank literary street, rue de la Bûcherie....
Lisa
Dec 31, 20221 min read
The Defender of Time
Improbable Walks, Season 3, Episode 8: In this episode, I chat with Heather Stimmler about the Quartier de l'Horloge, in the 3rd...
Lisa
Oct 30, 20221 min read
The Queen's Flower Market
Improbable Walks, Season 3, Episode 7: Back in 2014, the market was named for Queen Elizabeth II--this is highly unusual, in France. Here...
Lisa
Apr 22, 20201 min read
Virtual Walk: RUE DE BIEVRE, Paris
Improbable Walks, Season 1, Episode #1: As a thank you to my newsletter readers--you! thank you!--I've created a free mini-walk about the...
Lisa
Jul 24, 20191 min read
A sense of time
Before the Cathedral, there was a church. Before the church, a temple. Before the temple, a place of offerings to a river god. A roof is...
Lisa
Mar 13, 20191 min read
NON-FIGURATIVE SCULPTURE
I wrote my first radio play recently, and YOU CAN LISTEN TO IT FOR FREE, by clicking on the elevator picture below. The play is called...
Lisa
Jan 8, 20192 min read
Curious Minds: the reading list
Several people at the Curious Minds lectures asked me for a reading list about Inventing Modern Paris. Which is a great idea! But I have...
Lisa
Jan 6, 20191 min read
Le Chat Noir, Spoken Word Paris
Every now & then, I get to read at the long-running series, Spoken Word Paris. Though I can't click my heels and bring you to the...
Lisa
Jan 5, 20191 min read
A lady duels
Every now and then, somebody does something SO annoying that the best solution is to challenge them to a duel. Or so Princess Pauline von...
Lisa
Jan 5, 20195 min read
Curious Minds - 2017 reading list
what we talked about when we talked about Paris at the Hot Docs morning sessions Hello Monday morning people! As requested, here is a...
Lisa
Jan 5, 20191 min read
Many older blog posts
The wondrous web has all of our past lives vaguely available... Browse here - topics include favourite bookshops, paintings, the weather,...
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