Don’t forget that next Sunday is Easter and in France we hide chocolates all around the house or in the garden for children to go on an egg hunt. Every pastry shop has chocolate eggs or hens, but some are prettier than others.
Rupert Shrive walks to Tours with his Balzac
Natasha Fraser Cavassoni was celebrating her birthday near the Buttes Chaumont and I was lucky to sit next to an eccentric English artist Rupert Shrive who was born in Norfolk but settled in Paris many years ago. He was commissioned to make a large head of Balzac for the Paris Balzac museum and decided to move it from his studio … Read More
In Senlis, love conversation is the topic at musée de la Chasse.
At a time when deer hunting is particularly criticized by environmental activists, two charming events took place this week which immediately result from this noble sports. A wonderful mass and concert at Eglise de la Trinité was celebrated on January 29 th, with over fifty “sonneurs” French horn players led by Nicolas Dromer and Eric Petit, taking turns with the organist … Read More
A coffee place which sells rare International cookies
Brûlerie de Varenne is a tiny little shop not far from Hôtel Matignon where you can find Brigitte Macron’s family macarons, the Jean Trogneux macarons from Amiens… Of course you can order them online but for a last minute lunch it is fun to bring something few people have tasted in Paris, like the Spanish D. Sancho Melero cookies which … Read More
Happy New Year!
There is nothing more uplifting than watching beauty whether in an art gallery or outside in a fabulous landscape. I travelled to La Gomera in Spain over the holidays, and the sunny weather and beautiful nature gave me more appetite for the numerous exhibitions and concerts taking place this winter. I wish you all, mu faithful readers, light and happiness … Read More
The January 1, Legion of honor nominations
It’s always fun to read the nominations to the Legion of honor in Le Figaro and this year again many cultural figures were honored. The American artist Sheila Hicks born Sheila Bedrick, is made chevalier, the first grade. She lives in Paris near Odeon and has had major exhibits at Centre Pompidou and at Carnavalet, more recently in 2021, at Mobilier … Read More
Scotland remains unequalled as far as humor, sceneries and now food
I thought that it would rain all week end so I had practiced to play golf in the rain the previous week so as not to be too disappointed. And the weather was so sunny in Dornoch, the town forty miles north of Inverness, that we could not believe it. A four day week end in Edinburgh and Skibo castle … Read More
Vincent Darré creates a stir with le Mobilier National at Les Gobelins
The only mistake with the new show at Mobilier National called “Le Chic, Decorative arts from 1930 to 1960” is its title which could deter anybody to go and visit. But so many friends told me it was a great exhibition that I went, after seeing the Art Deco show at Chaillot. And it was, in a way, a welcome … Read More