Good Moning!
My flats ranged from boulevard Haussmann to Miromesnil.
There it’s offices, offices, expensive shops, decent eateries but Monday to Friday. I had to go out to Les environs for a taste of local. South better than north. North is dead ethnic and poor.
It’s a tale of two cities really
Loved it!
Thank you for the tips. I have bookmarked the places for future reference. There is so much to love aand hate about Paris in almost equal measure that a few pointers, even for what might seem basic to those who live or have lived in the city, are invaluable.
I remember Paris of course when sex was freely on offer and shown in abundance, from nominal peep shows that offered sex with the performer, to shags in the back of a conveniently parked minivan. That side sadly has been screwed into the ground, no pun intended, by ill-fitting puritanism infecting much of Europe.
Although I have been to the Eiffel Tower and Montparnasse, which seems denuded of its former glorious history, I have never really been interested to go merely as a tourist. Meeting artists and professionals (or similarly self-aware people) has always a been a pleasure, and I have found such people unfailingly kind and polite. I have met Breillat and occasionally daydream of Paris in the sixties, of Sartre and unspent youth, or before that Hemingway or other great men that found such solace and inspiration in Paris.
I wonder if it is a good idea to take up residence in somewhere within easy reach of Paris like Fontainebleau for a few weeks and get the best of some open-air spaces while commuting to the centre on other days for serious study?
Being able to stimulate the mind with Louvre and the lungs with fresh air of the forest there would only remain the question of p4p. For that aspect of civilisation I guess it's a trek from Gare de Lyon to the new Gare du Nord and off to Brussels!
