Paris

Les Scenes de Paris

Une femme dans Place de Vosges. The weather has turned from Indian summer to a more climate typique pour Paris. Il pleut aujourd’hui. (Which I’m…

Le Shopping

Mon mari exclaims, “it sparkles like bubbles in champagne!” Well, it’s a good thing the markets rebounded yesterday, as we did a bit of shopping….

Room With A View

This is the actual view from our balcony! Oui, that’s the Tour Eiffel in the center. Here’s looking in the opposite direction:That’s Montmartre/Sacre Coeur in…

Paris Prep – Packing Redux

We’re actually about 2/3 packed for our trip! I started packing over the weekend in anticipation of a very busy week and an extremely early…

Paris Prep – Five More Days!!!

I’m starting to get those happy butterflies in my stomach. All original content property of https://unefemmenet.wpengine.com This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial…

Paris Prep – Les Livres

Each day closer to our trip, ma tête is less and less in LA, more and more in Paris. Currently reading: Selected Letters of Madame…

Flying donkey spotted over Ile-de-Cité

Le hamburger? C’est chic maintenant! “It has the taste of the forbidden, the illicit — the subversive, even,” said Hélène Samuel, a restaurant consultant here….

Heavy Lifting

Une femme’s ongoing efforts to ruthlessly edit down the contents of la garde-robe have stalled. Not only am I struggling to cast off those “maybe-I’ll-wear-it-someday”…

Shooting Fish in a Barrel

Spit in any direction, and you’ll probably hit an egregious example of weight fascism in the fashion industry. But two separate items I came across…