A friend of mine, Sabine de La Rochefoucauld, invited me to the ordination of her son Bernard, a thirty three year old graduate of the ESCP business school and a handsome boy. For the last two months, I was utterly excited to be able to witness this “wedding with God”, which such few men undertake nowadays. And so I planned … Read More
Jardins Jardin celebrates its 20 th anniversary at Villa Windsor
Everyone at “Salon Jardins, Jardin” was curious to discover the villa in the Bois de Boulogne where the Duke and Duchess of Windsor lived when in exile after the King’s abdication. The house was built in 1924 and served briefly from 1945 to 1946 as residence to General de Gaulle and his family. It was also rented for a while … Read More
Sports at Petit Palais, roses in Chantilly, music by the Garde Républicaine what a life!
Yes the nightmare has started and every single Parisian I meet says: “I am moving to the country for the summer”… When the bus 84 from Saint Sulpice dropped me off at Assemblée Nationale and said it was turning back, I started to understand that life in the next six months would not be the same. The same happened when … Read More
The Albert Kahn Gardens, it’s time to go to Boulogne
Albert Kahn was a visionary and with the money he made on the stock exchange at the beginning of the 20 th century, he developed a systematic registry of autochromes, “Archives of the Planet”, shot by photographers whom he sent around the world to shoot great landscapes. The museum, set in the middle of his Japanese and English gardens of … Read More
Societies of friends are the new (social) power…
Now that everyone spends their time sending text messages and posting on Instagram, physical social life has virtually disappeared from our lives. I find myself enjoying talking to my baker more and more while buying a baguette! But little by little, “the Friends of…” and “Cercle des Mécènes” have developed and created cultural salons focused on specific themes. In music, … Read More
Flora Soames shares her “One Day Box” in a book
In the introduction to her book of decoration, Flora Soames writes: “My definition of a One day Box is a place, real or imaginary, where we store fragments of our past that spark a feeling of connection – memories of sights, smells and sound we love, and to which one day we hope to return”. So the venue for the … Read More
Antony Gormley hits Musée Rodin like a storm
On this first day of cold autumn weather, British sculptor Antony Gormley could only be delighted to find all the roses of Musée Rodin still in full bloom. His exhibition of 75 sculptures and models in conversation with Rodin’s masterpieces is the event of the week, just before the openings of Paris + by Art Basel and Peter Doig at … Read More
Claire Bretécher, Prix Émile Perreau Saussine, Journée des Plantes in Chantilly and a novel on worms…
The Autumn Journées des plantes in Chantilly were heavenly with perfect cool and sunny weather and newcomers such as Jean Marie Dheedene from the Clematis Foundation in Belgium. He develops new clematises which survive better the heat and need little watering and has classified them all according to the flowering period and the perfume. I visited Claire Le Meur who … Read More