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cafes along rue Mouffetard, Latin Quarter
By Judy Berman
The city’s energy and soul: its people, its art. After viewing Claude Monet’s massive murals of water lillies in Musee de L’Orangerie, we stopped at Jardin des Tuileries. There, we relaxed on deck chairs by a fountain, and drank in our surroundings: the statues, children playing, and plump pigeons pecking the crumbs left by visitors’ lunches.
There is beauty in everyday sightings in Paris as well.
“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made room.” (Sheridan Hay, The Secret of Lost Things)
Rue du Chat-qui-Peche – The “Street of the Cat Who Fishes” is said to be the narrowest street in Paris.
Feeding pigeons, next to the Cathedrale de Notre-Dame
Firefighters (sapeurs pompiers) at their fire station in the Latin Quarter.
We were both sad when I told him my family was returning to America.
“It is in the shelter of each other that the people live. “ (Irish proverb)
Men at work in park next to Cathedrale de Notre-Dame
An artist drawing a caricature along the Seine River
Not just a gelati, but a work of art.
Street musicians in the Ile de la Cite
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Video: Movie clip from “A Man and a Woman” (un homme et une femme). This is music I often hum when I think of France.
