A website about French culture and lifestyle
A website about French culture and lifestyle
Photography is in the spotlight in an innovative place on the Seine which even offers photo cruises in Paris ! The primary essence of Quai de la Photo, an art center dedicated to contemporary photography, is cultural and artistic. The ambition of the place is to introduce current innovative and original photography practices. EXHIBITIONS WITH …
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martin Parr : two photographers, two artists that everything opposes. A new exhibition brings them together.
This pretty storefront has had several lives Located between rue Vaugirard and rue Madame, the Pont Traversé was the bookstore of the writer and poet Marcel Béalu. Take a look at its storefront, you will then discover beef heads and enamel plaques, clues to its former vocation: that of butcher’s shop, in fact this bookstore was a former butcher’s shop classified as a historic monument. The bookstore is now closed since November 2019 and has made way for a restaurant!
You can’t miss It when walking on avenue Rapp near the Eiffel Tower, The Lavirotte building is a superb example of Art Nouveau in Paris.
Released in full containment, Yael Naim was unable to show us her record, “nightsongs” at its true value, but it is not too late to discover the sumptuous and sweet songs that make up this record.
If there is one place that makes you want to sit down, it is this patisserie-café with terrace by the sweet name of Moulin de la Vierge. And It’s one of the best bakery of Paris !
In the Marais, rue François Miron, you can discover two superb gabled houses typical of old Paris, which date from the 15th century. They were completely restored in 1967 to bring back the half-timbered areas, the medieval-style shops and the gables.
After the gigantic fire that devastated London in 1666, an ordinance obliged Parisians to cover their facades with plaster to limit the spread of fire, and gables, which also favored fires, were banned. Covered with plaster, these facades were therefore hidden from the eyes of Parisians for 3 centuries.
The Fraisier is a classic French dessert created by Lenôtre, in 1960 in Paris, It’s delicious ! Here is the recipe
Here if the recipe of the clafouti. List of ingredients
200 ml warm milk
70 g sugar
3 eggs
500 g apricots
1 vanilla pod
2 tsp. flour
Recipe steps
In a bowl, whisk the eggs with the sugar, then add the flour, mix
Then add the still warm milk, mixing well
Cut the apricots into large slices (or any other fruit such as peaches, apples, cherries …) and sprinkle with brown sugar (2 tablespoons). Place them in a non-stick or buttered cake pan
Pour the preparation on top and bake at 180 ° C for 50 minutes
This is my favourite district of Paris and It miss me so much to wander in Its streets… Some of the pics I took there…