Our mezzanine
A local shop
Musee de Cluny is at the bottom of our steet.
This is our little square in front of the Sorbonnne.
Searching for Easter lunch.
Easter Friday we had the good fortune of sitting in the Luxemborg Gardens to observe the ever efficient police blowing whistles at the people who dared to "pelouse interdit". Deja vu a Lyon! The Cafe de Flore was E11 pour deux tasse! Wow, that's gotta be good cafe!
We are here for a time of refreshing and rest.
3 commentaires:
Wow What pictures. It brings back such sweet memories of my two visits to Paris. I LOVE that city. Karli & I spent some time there about ten years ago. There is such a charm there.
It sounds like you will have a wonderful time of reflection and refreshment in the Lord in your time there.
I'm so glad you have set up this blog so we can be in touch with you.
hey,
glad to keep an eye on you every once and a while....make sure you are staying out of trouble. :)
love from Sue
happy Easter!
Know where the idea of "left" and "right" comes from in politics? Paris. On Oct 1, 1791 the deputies of the new constitutional monarchy assembly arrived for their first day of work to find that "the supporters of the king, aristocrats and those who generally supported the established distribution of wealth were to sit on the right-hand side of the hall. The guys who planned on cutting off the king's head, along with lawyers, small merchants and those who wanted to empower the poor, were to take their places on the left."
This from the Globe's Doug Saunders, who uses it as an intro to a piece which says:
1. Sego and Sarko started off with ideas that promised to yank France out of its socioeconomic funk.
2. Both are now, rather than trying to win over one another's voters, being forced to curry favour with fringe left and/or right fanatics (both factions having long regrettable histories in the country) by floating offensive and unworkable policies.
3. France is the sick man of the old-line Eurodemocracies, having wilfully ignored the "Third Way" during the '90s: "The free-market economy, once a cudgel wielded by the right, became the principal tool of the intelligent left. In Britain, Spain, Germany and now Italy, the liberal economy and the welfare state became the twin tools of prosperity and national wealth."
Along with the agressive acceptance and application of globalism, which France disdains as, well, just not French enough.
So as trusted and respected voices on the ground, and with the election imminent, tell us: how will France save itself?
Oh, yeah, and Bonne Paques!
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