Student Notes

Last week we went to the National Library of France. While it’s not a statue, I have to talk about this building because it was awesome. The building is built on a man-made hill that you climb up. This is topped with the four large buildings that you can see in the picture. Just those […]

“It is in the morning, before six o’ clock, that the ‘Halles’ must be visited, if one wants to see the stunning spectacle of the ‘criée’ (sale by auction).” (p. 15, “Second Day Morning”). When we visited the former Les … Continue reading →

When one is looking up personal accounts of visits to the famed ‘City of Lights’, a common trait is a whelming sense of disappointment in the writer. Many who visit Paris find themselves pressed by the reality of the city breaking their preconceived notions of Paris as a romantic destination, picturesque, and clean, so much […]

Last week we went to Versailles. I had been to the house before but it was the gardens that really took me away. Like everything about Versailles, the gardens are meant to impress and display the king’s wealth and power. This they absolutely do. The size and the opulence of the gardens where amazing, and […]

By now, everyone in our group knows that the French are masters of green spaces. In this post, I’ll share a few of those spaces. Then, I want to look at other areas, outside of the natural world, where the color green reigns supreme in Paris. Here are a couple of places I found during … Continue reading Greenish →

When the group went to Bercy, I noticed an interesting face in the garbage can of all places. It’s not actually in the can, exactly, but the circles and rectangles on the garbage can where trash goes looks like a robot face. The next face I saw was also in Bercy in a store there. … Continue reading Discoveries →