Monthly Archives: July 2018

If you didn’t know that Molière was the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin before visiting his cenotaph in Père-Lachaise, you’d at least have some idea from reading the marker. I point this out because if you visit the grave site …

Today’s post is the first in a series that will briefly chronicle the lives (or critical aspects of the lives) of six people whose monuments in Cimetière de l’est (AKA Père-Lachaise) I found particularly interesting or whose lives I thought …

Although much about the early life of Héloïse d’Argenteuil (her “surname” is from the convent of St. Marie in Argenteuil where she spent much of her childhood and to which she would later return) has been lost to time, the …

On the bus ride up rue de la Roquette David asked if we wanted to start at the top of the cemetery and walk down the hill or enter through the main gate and work our way up. We chose the …

Our walk through le Marais done, it was time to break for lunch and we’d let David choose the restaurant. I believe it was the Bistrot des Vosges and while the meal was fine, the service was sadly below par. …