August 16th, 2005

Subject: A busy summer Time: 01:55 pm Current Mood: happy

Hello to you! Paris copyright © Jean Philipppe CHIAPPONI I apologise I have not written in so long a time. We have been very busy planning for our new life together. We have been searching for a new appartment and it is very hard to find something we can afford to buy. Now we have holidays but so does everyone else, so I fear our search will start in September again. We went to England twice this summer, in July and again in early August, then to visit a friend who is working on a project in Wales. He is in Cardiff which is an interesting ancient place. Wales has beautiful landscapes. We had heat in June, and were very worried that the summer would be hot as it was before, but it grew cooler in July. When we were in England and Wales it was rainy and mild. Pierre-Philippe speaks English much better now, and I somewhat worse, but it is good to make these small trips as he is busy. We think to visit Amsterdam for a weekeend soon. How is your summer passing? I hope you are having a pleasant time!

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May 15th, 2005

Subject: Bastille sunset Time: 12:58 pm Current Mood: cheerful

Hello to you! Copyright © Franck Chazot I hope you are well. As ever, all is so busy! My mother has returned to Paris, but a friend of hers is ill, so she has gone to Nice for several weeks. In one way it is good to have her here and to spend time with her, but it also takes a great deal of time as she requires much attention. She now asks if we can help her find an apartment to live, and wants us to buy an apartment near her future home. But we have different ideas of where we shall live to her ideas! My father has been again to the doctor, and all of the tests show he is much better, so I am very happy with this. He has even said he would be fit enough to see my mother, which was a surprise for me! So all is well and very busy. We try to go away on the weekends to see friends and relatives, and will return to the south of France again more in the summer. I wish you a good week!

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May 3rd, 2005

Subject: Springtime in Paris Time: 01:15 pm Current Mood: busy

Hello to you! I hope you are well! A view of what we see! Copyright © langaloo winston I thank you for all of your kind words and thoughts. I have been so very busy! My mother has decided to leave London and move to Paris to help me prepare for the wedding. My brother warned me of this, and he is right! He says if I am not careful she will make it her wedding, not mine. I try to be careful with her, but between my work, studies, wedding preparation and searching for a new home, I am exhausted every night! I wish you a good day!

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April 19th, 2005

Subject: A question for you! Time: 05:35 pm Current Mood: !!!

Hello! I hope you are all well. Copyright © Alex Kiefer Notre Dame I have a question for you. My life is now changing very much (I wrote what is happening in the last friends posting) and I know now that I will have almost no time! ( The questions ) I will appreciate very much the information you give me, and I thank you!

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Subject: Wonderful news! Time: 05:21 pm Current Mood: ecstatic

Hello to you! Copyright © om mo Tour Eiffel I am sorry to be so long away, we celebrated Easter and then took a spring holiday. When we returned to Paris we were so very busy, Pierre-Philippe with his work, I with my work and my studies that I had no time to write in the LiveJournal. But now I have something wonderful to say! Pierre-Philippe has asked me if I will marry him, and I have said yes! He asked me when we were in the countryside, and we and our families are very very happy. We do not yet have the date, perhaps in the autumn. But as you know, I have had very little time this year, and not been able to write in the LJ, nor read your words. And now that we will plan the wedding and search for a new home, I fear it will be very impossible for me to make time for the LJ. I will ask in the next posting what you wish me to do in the LJ. Here is the link to the questions http://www.livejournal.com/users/mtl/7506.html#cutid1 I wish you all that is wonderful, and send my love!

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March 15th, 2005

Subject: The Grand Palais Time: 12:07 pm Current Mood: busy

Hello to you! A favourite photo of the Grand Palais! Copyright © Jonathan Haider Tomorrow I will accompany my father to the doctor, one test was rescheduled, so he will be busy with doctors all this week. I also am making plans to seek spring with Pierre-Philippe, perhaps we will find it! A good day to you!

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March 14th, 2005

Subject: the Seine by night Time: 01:38 pm Current Mood: concerned

Hello to you! I hope you passed a pleasant weekend! A photo of the Seine in the winter night. Copyright © David Plummer I shall be very busy as I shall accompany my father to his examinations with the doctors. I think he is much better, but they check him again. I wish you a good day!

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March 12th, 2005

Subject: A post for the weekend, the Place des Vosges Time: 12:43 pm Current Mood: concerned

Alexandre Dumas referred to this place in his novel "La Reine Margot." Corneille wrote "La Place Royale." These arcades were the domain of the merchants, who sold their wares according to the dictates of Henry IV. Copyright © Jonathan Haider Henry IV ordered this square designed after Catherine de Médicis' vision of combining cut stones. The great architectes, painters and sculptors helped build this, beginning in 1604. Among others, Jacques II Androuet Du Cerceau, Louis Métezeau, Le Vau, Le Brun, Mignard, all of these contributed. A masterwork of balance and elegance, it is encircled by 36 pavillions above the arcades (9 for each of the 108 m. of a side) consisting of 2 stories. The height of the façades is equal to their width, and the height of the rooftops equals the half of the measure of the façades. ( More about the Place des Vosges ) The city of Paris thought to make this place a parking garage, but this project was abandoned in 1970, and the trees were replanted. The renovation of the square and the fountains only happened in 1988!

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March 11th, 2005

Subject: Paris - ville lumière Time: 12:26 pm

Hello to you! It is Friday and the weekend is almost here! Look at the light in this photograph! Sometimes in the spring and autumn, the twilight will become this violet. It is so beautiful! Copyright © Peter Schultz This photo was taken from the second floor of the Eiffel Tower. Below, a part of the Champs de Mars and the 7 arrondissement. In the background on the right the Invalides. I wish you a good weekend!

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March 10th, 2005

Subject: La Fontaine Médicis Time: 01:22 pm

Hello to you! A photo of autumn, of the Médicis fountain in the Luxembourg Gardens. I dined with my friend last night who is studying art conservation at the Louvre. We had a wonderful time, and she told me of the cellars beneath the Louvre where they keep the art, and also where they do some studying. I would love to see those, and she will ask if one day I can. That would be so interesting! I wish you a good day!

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March 9th, 2005

Subject: Montmartre Time: 12:59 pm Current Mood: accomplished

Hello to you! I hope you will enjoy this typical scene of Montmartre. Copyright © Stephane Le Gal I see the next weeks will be busy with meetings with my professors, and with much reading and writing. I hope we will have nice weather for the Easter holidays! I wish you a good day

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March 8th, 2005

Subject: Sacré-Coeur en hiver Time: 01:50 pm Current Mood: anxious

Hello to you! We still have winter, so everyone runs from home to work to the métro to the shop and it is always cold. It is very damp, and seems as though the winter will not end. Copyright © Colin Brenchley The weather does look very like this photo of the Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre. Oh how we wait for spring!

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March 7th, 2005

Subject: Ile de la Cité Time: 03:43 pm Current Mood: busy

Hello to you! How was the weekend for you? I hope good. Mine was peaceful with much reading, and relaxing from the busy wine show! A photo of the Ile de la Cité for you! Copyright © Jacques Guimard

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March 4th, 2005

Subject: Place de la Carroussel Time: 06:23 pm Current Mood: energetic

Hello to you! I thought you would enjoy this beautiful enfilade, this row of lanterns! Copyright © Philippe Rabier Such a week this has been! The wine fair was very good and the new wines of Spain were very well received. We will try them tomorrow afternoon in our office. But now I will read and study, and I wish you a good evening.

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February 28th, 2005

Subject: A view of the past Time: 02:25 pm Current Mood: accomplished

Hello to you! A view of the past along the Canal St. Martin. Copyright © Steven Le Vourc'h We had snow in the last days! This was beautiful and is very rare here for us. It snows here very seldom, so it is special when we do have snow! I read and read all weekend long, and tomorrow starts the wine fair, so I will be very busy until Friday! I wish you a good week.

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February 26th, 2005

Subject: The Seine Time: 02:58 pm Current Mood: sleepy

A view of the Seine I will sleep this weekend and relax before the wine fair. I have so much to read!

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February 25th, 2005

Subject: Le Panthéon Time: 02:28 pm Current Mood: pleased

Hello to you! Perhaps this is familiar to you, but this is for seanmoon who will go to Paris. The Panthéon was built by the famous architect Soufflot to celebrate the recovery of health of Louis XV. This project did not begin until 1755 as there was no money! During the building of the planned church to honor Ste. Geneviève who is the patron saint of Paris, Soufflot died, so this building was not completed until 1789. In 1791 this building became the Panthéon. In 1885, when Victor Hugo died, it became a memorial to the very famous dead who are buried there such as Voltaire, Rousseau and Zola. It was also where the physicist Leon Foucault carried out his first experiments with the pendulum in the 19th century to demonstrate the rotation of the earth on its axis. Copyright © Jonathan Haider The statue of la Convention Nationale ( Some more Panthéon photos ) The building is very large! It is built in the form of a cross, 110 m (352 ft) long and 85 m (272 ft.) wide. The dome has a height of 85m (272 ft). I wish you a good weekend!

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February 24th, 2005

Subject: Jeanne d'Arc devant Orléans Time: 01:38 pm Current Mood: pleased

My favourite saint! Copyright © Jonathan Haider This can be found in the Panthéon, and is Jeanne d'Arc before Orléans. Next week I will be at a small fair for wine with Slava, who is my colleague. They try to arrange the schedule so it will not interfere with my studies! But I hope I can read while at the fair. I wish you a good day!

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February 23rd, 2005

Subject: The Seine Time: 01:49 pm Current Mood: thoughtful

Hello to you! Copyright © Franck Chazot A wonderful picture of the Seine from Pont Alexandre II I am planning what I will do for my spring holiday, I would like to go someplace warm. I am so tired of this winter! But now I am so busy it is difficult for me to make a plan. I wish you a good day!

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February 22nd, 2005

Subject: Les Tuileries Time: 01:20 pm Current Mood: pleased

Hello to you! Copyright © Linas Marcinkevicius Twilight and lovely colours! I find the soft violet is be very beautiful! We went to eat couscous at a wonderful restaurant not so far from Pierre-Philippe. My cousine Madeleine is back from her travels, she was in India. She told us about this last night. I would like to go some day, very much! I wish you a good day!

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