Mme de Pompadour, the French President, & me
Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 8: In this episode, we visit the French President's palace, the Élysée (that first photo is me, in...
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Lisa
- Sep 29
- 1 min
Classic rue Bonaparte
Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 7 In this episode, we stroll up the street where New Yorker writer Janet Flanner lived, where the...
Lisa
- Aug 18
- 1 min
Zola's complicated life on rue de Bruxelles
Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 6: In this episode, we visit a Haussmann-style street where the great writer Zola once lived....
Lisa
- Jun 30
- 1 min
The Library on the Left Bank
Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 5: In this episode, we visit the American Library in Paris, on the easily-overlooked little street...
Lisa
- May 23
- 1 min
The University of La Nouvelle Vague
Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 4: In this episode, we start in front of the beautiful Sorbonne and walk down the single block of rue...
Lisa
- Mar 22
- 1 min
Medicine, Monks, and Revolutionaries
Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 3: In this episode, we walk along the rue de l’Ecole de Medicine, the Street of the School of...
Lisa
- Feb 27
- 1 min
Art Nouveau into Nouveau Paris
Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 2: In this episode, we stroll North in the 17th arrondissement, focusing on architecture. To begin,...
Lisa
- Jan 29
- 1 min
The Insomniac of rue de la Bûcherie
Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 1: Below, photos to celebrate the quirky history of Left Bank literary street, rue de la Bûcherie....
Lisa
- Dec 31, 2022
- 1 min
The Defender of Time
Improbable Walks, Season 3, Episode 8: In this episode, I chat with Heather Stimmler about the Quartier de l'Horloge, in the 3rd...
Lisa
- Oct 30, 2022
- 1 min
The Queen's Flower Market
Improbable Walks, Season 3, Episode 7: Back in 2014, the market was named for Queen Elizabeth II--this is highly unusual, in France. Here...
Lisa
- Apr 22, 2020
- 1 min
Virtual Walk: RUE DE BIEVRE, Paris
Improbable Walks, Season 1, Episode #1: As a thank you to my newsletter readers--you! thank you!--I've created a free mini-walk about the...
Lisa
- Jul 24, 2019
- 1 min
A sense of time
Before the Cathedral, there was a church. Before the church, a temple. Before the temple, a place of offerings to a river god. A roof is...
Lisa
- Mar 13, 2019
- 1 min
NON-FIGURATIVE SCULPTURE
I wrote my first radio play recently, and YOU CAN LISTEN TO IT FOR FREE, by clicking on the elevator picture below. The play is called...
Lisa
- Jan 8, 2019
- 2 min
Curious Minds: the reading list
Several people at the Curious Minds lectures asked me for a reading list about Inventing Modern Paris. Which is a great idea! But I have...
Lisa
- Jan 6, 2019
- 1 min
Le Chat Noir, Spoken Word Paris
Every now & then, I get to read at the long-running series, Spoken Word Paris. Though I can't click my heels and bring you to the...
Lisa
- Jan 5, 2019
- 1 min
A lady duels
Every now and then, somebody does something SO annoying that the best solution is to challenge them to a duel. Or so Princess Pauline von...
Lisa
- Jan 5, 2019
- 5 min
Curious Minds - 2017 reading list
what we talked about when we talked about Paris at the Hot Docs morning sessions Hello Monday morning people! As requested, here is a...
Lisa
- Jan 5, 2019
- 1 min
Many older blog posts
The wondrous web has all of our past lives vaguely available... Browse here - topics include favourite bookshops, paintings, the weather,...
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