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Birds in Paris and Speak Easy

Birds in Paris and Speak Easy

A few years ago I started noticing birds and now the city is full of nature. Birds are everywhere, including in the city, if you just look and listen a little more closely. Here are a few of the birds you can see in Paris. Two of my favorites are the tiniest and busiest. The European robin and the wren. The European robin is the one you see on greeting cards all over the place, he is an artist's favorite with his bright orange-red face and neck. When you see him you'll recognize him right away by his color and shape - he looks like he just ate a ping pong ball -  just that size and nicely round. The Wren is even smaller, multi-shades of brown has a stubby turned up tail. The wren makes a noise bigger than most bigger birds. Once you learn their song (listen here) you'll start hearing wrens everywhere. Another big talker is the Magpie. This bird is a little smaller than a crow, has a long thin tail and is iridescent black and white. When the sunlight glints off his…
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  • 23 mai 2022
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American MEMORIAL DAY FRANCE 2022

American MEMORIAL DAY FRANCE 2022

American MEMORIAL DAY FRANCE 2022 Memorial Day, originally named Decoration Day, was first celebrated on  Memorial Day, originally named Decoration Day, was first celebrated on May 30, 1868 to honor those soldiers who lost their lives to the Civil War.  In 1971, the name was changed to honor all US soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom!  Let's remember those who have sacrificed their lives, join in one of the many commemorations throughout France. In Paris: MAY 29, 2022 (SUNDAY) MEMORIAL DAY Join Paris Post 1 for a full day of ceremonies and events in Paris: LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE MEMORIAL @ 10h00 "La Fayette Escadrille" Memorial Arch was built between 1926 and 1928, and was inaugurated on July 4, 1928, U.S. Independence Day, in the notable presence of Ferdinand Foch and Paul Doumer. Inscribed in French on top in capital letters "In memory to the Heroes of Escadrille La Fayette dead for the Defense of Right and Liberty". It is located at 5 Bd …
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  • 18 mai 2022
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Independent Bookstore Day – 23 April

Independent Bookstore Day – 23 April

April 23 is Saint George's Day. Saint George is the patron of booksellers thus his day was chosen as Independent Bookstore Day, an initiative of Association Verbes, which aims to promote independent bookstores and to maintain the special status they have in France in the face of ever more present threats, such as e-books. This initiative was started twenty-three years ago and today, Independent Bookstore Day is celebrated in 80 countries. Each year, the association publishes 23,000 copies of a book whose purpose is to acquaint people with publishing and with the demands of running a bookstore. This year's book, on sale for just 3€, is a compilation of reading lists that ispired 50 French authors. Each author also has a page to describe the view from their writing space. Bill& Rosa’s Book Room will participate in this year’s event, check out this page for more information on our activities. This year, to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day, we thought you'd like to meet a…
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  • 13 avril 2022
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Rosa Bonheur Bicentennial Birthday Celebrations

Rosa Bonheur Bicentennial Birthday Celebrations

As you probably know Bill & Rosa's Book room was named for the showman Buffalo Bill and the painter Rosa Bonheur (learn who Rosa was here). March 16th is Rosa's birthday and this year, 2022, is the Rosa Bonheur Bicentennial. To celebrate her 200th birthday here's a sampling of the events which include the naming of Rosa Bonheur's rose, the Rosa Bonheur Festival in July and August, "Rosa Bonheur intimate" exhibition in September, the launch of a postage stamp, retrospective exhibitions at the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, exhibition at the Château de Fontainebleau, publications, conferences, documentaries, tributes... At Rosa Bonheur's Chateau Exhibition: The Museum of the missing artwork The Château de By, just outside Paris near Fontainebleau, Rosa's residence for nearly 40 years, is, in 2022, full of effervescence for this big anniversary. The kickoff happened last week when their new exhibition space was inaugurated. The first exhibit is ca…
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  • 16 mars 2022
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We tested non-alcoholic wine. It’s good!

We tested non-alcoholic wine. It’s good!

We tested non-alcoholic wine. Yes it exists! And it is a pleasure to drink! Plus there are all the benefits of wine minus the big negatives: alcohol and mega calories. Whether you want to go dry for January or just enjoy wine without headaches, this is a nice product. Here's how I came to try these products that are still rather a secret. I like red wine, but I've decided to reduce my alcohol, so I went looking for something else to drink with dinner that is enjoyable and pretty and doesn't overpower the meal – that's why we like wine isn't it? I like to pour into a pretty glass; I enjoy the gesture and the color or wine which is part of why I've not been able to find anything else that I want to drink at dinner. I love water, (but I gulp it when I drink it) so not at dinner when I want to sip. I love fruit juice, but it is too heavy and sugary for dinner (and as a friend so aptly mentioned “too interfering”). I'm using my same wine glasses and amounts and although I've …
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  • 1 mars 2022
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Buffalo Bill is back in France!

Buffalo Bill is back in France!

Buffalo Bill is back in France! and to celebrate the 176th birthday of our book room's namesake, which is 26 February we're going to tell you about 2 exhibitions you might want to see. So grab some popcorn and keep reading. Popcorn? why popcorn? because Buffalo Bill introduced popcorn to France! In fact there are THREE exhibitions this year, because 2022 is Rosa Bonheur's bicentennial, that Bill & Rosa's Book Room doesn't want you to miss. Sur la piste des Sioux in Lyon features a section on the Wild West Show Buffalo Bill un Saltimanque venu de l'ouest is in Elbeuf which is a few minutes from Rouen And coming later this year is a Rosa Bonheur retrospective for the 200th anniversay of her birth. This expo will take place in Bordeaux, then in Paris. And because this is a historic anniversary for Rosa Bonheur there are many more events coming too. To give you a taste of what to look forward to: at the Château de Rosa Bonheur à Thomery By near Fontainebleau t…
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  • 18 février 2022
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History, Politics and… Camemberts

History, Politics and… Camemberts

by Bernard Richard, Historian

Camembert is one of France's gastronomic emblems along with the baguette, champagne, coq au vin, wine and many other products that make up the French identity.

According to a well established, but undocumented, legend the cheese called camembert was created in about 1791 by a certain Marie Harel, a milkmaid whose statue was inaugurated by the French president in 1928 in the town of Vimoutiers, which is the administrative center down the road from the village of Camembert. Vimoutiers is in the Orme department in Normandy. The story goes that Marie, during the chaos of the Revolution, gave refuge to a priest who came from Brie, east of Paris, and that to show his gratitude the priest gave Marie the famous cheese recipe. But in fact much earlier, around 1705, Thomas Corneille, brother of the playwright Pierre, already wrote of the good cheese from Camembert.

The round boxes…

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  • 6 février 2022
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Ground Hog Day – Candlemas – Le Chandeleur

Ground Hog Day – Candlemas – Le Chandeleur

It's Ground Hog Day again! I get such a kick out of this day - it just makes me laugh and yet its origins are ancient and no joke - so that I want to share its background with you, dear reader, once again. --Lisa Selon le dicton écossais: If Candlemas Day is bright and clear, There'll be two winters in the year. La version anglaise: If Candlemas be fair and bright, Come, Winter, have another flight; If Candlemas brings clouds and rain, Go Winter, and come not again. Quand un animal hibernant sort de son terrier le 2 février (Le Chandeleur - Candlemas Day) et le soleil brille l'animal aura peur de son ombre, rentra sous terre et l'hiver continuera encore six semaines. La marmotte d'amérique est devenue aux Etats-Unis le météorologue le plus suivi pour ses prévisions de l'arrivée du printemps. Le plus célèbre des marmottes est Punxsutawney Phil, qui fait son entrée chaque année depuis 1887 à Punxsutawney, un village de Pennsylvanie. Toute la semaine du 2 février…
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  • 30 janvier 2022
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People ask me for directions all the time

People ask me for directions all the time

People ask me for directions all the time. Sometimes I feel like it must be written on my forehead or on my bike helmet "Don't know where you are going? Ask me for directions". Happily I usually can point them in the right direction and don't mind doing so. I find it to be a sort of compliment and it underlines to myself that I live in this beautiful city called Paris. This time though the experience was a bit trying - at first. I was riding my bike back to the office along the Seine. There is a section right by the Eiffel Tower that is a bike path and it is just wide enough for one bike. It is not a sidewalk, but there are always tourists on it and it is kind of a pain to get past them. I ding my bell and they usually step off onto the dirt between the the trees and let me pass. That night I was behind two women. One in silver lamé pants, high heels and a short white furry jacket. I later saw a sparkly necklace too. The other in conservative pants, shoes, long …
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  • 31 décembre 2021
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Jigsaw Puzzles!

Jigsaw Puzzles!

At Bill & Rosa's Book Room we are fans of jigsaw puzzles. One of our ideas was to always have a puzzle in progress at the Book Room for a collective effort. We even found a puzzle of Rosa Bonheur's painting of Buffalo Bill! That was to be our first one, but Covid has pushed that idea to the back burner for now. However at home puzzle time has grown with Covid. It's a great quiet, yet concentrated, relaxing activity away from screens. We just discovered that Larousse, one of our favorite editors, publishes jigsaw puzzles. They have something for everyone. Our favorites are the series in progress by Monsieur Z. Richard Zielenkiewicz, known under the pseudonym Monsieur Z, is a French illustrator and graphic designer living in the south of France. He has created hundreds of colorful posters for French cities and regions as well as other European cities. On these puzzles his colorful retro world transports you to the Alps or to the south of France! Pretty much any puzzle is grea…
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  • 14 décembre 2021
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