Tag: Paris
Paris attacks: first stupor and then life
Friday, November 13th, after the computer I was working on fatally crashed, I got out of my night class before it was over. I hesitated between walking home and taking the metro – after all, it takes about the same time. I chose travel underground from Rambuteau to Belleville, as I was carrying huge drawings…
Weekends in Paris: the joys of idleness
Two million two hundred forty thousand six hundred twenty-one Parisians share a territory of 105.4 square kilometers, the equivalent of the entire population of Montreal regrouped in the eastern part of the city between Pie IX Boulevard and the tip from the island. Already very dense, Paris welcomes every day millions of people coming to work, study…
The Paris of the Middle Ages
The Middle Ages is an era that I have disliked for a long time, partly because we learned in school that it was an age defined by its darkness and the plague. But also, it’s a period which has not left any traces in Quebec or in North America, in any case not any traces…
A visit to Paris’ Tropical Aquarium
As the temperature are almost reaching 40°C, I will stay on topic with tropical pictures straight out from the basins of the Aquarium Porte Dorée. We had not gone back to this venue since 2009 but one afternoon we were close-by we decided to pop-in and visit with my in-laws. I’m always shared between the…
