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A Trip to Paris: Visiting the French Capital’s Most Famous Attractions (Part 8) Posted by mtaulier on Dec 9, 2013
If you’re just joining us on our tour of Paris, feel free to go back and read a few of the previous posts that might be of interest to you. In our last post, we discovered two modern marvels dotting the Parisian cityscape: l’Arche de la Défense and le Centre Pompidou. These sights might not…
A Trip to Paris: Visiting the French Capital’s Most Famous Attractions (Part 7) Posted by mtaulier on Nov 30, 2013
We’re going to be taking a little detour now to visit some more contemporary sights. It is not a coincidence that some of the most popular Parisian tourist attractions are historic sights, with some dating all the way back to the 14th century. One reason they are so famous and revered is because they have…
A Trip to Paris: Visiting the French Capital’s Most Famous Attractions (Part 6) Posted by mtaulier on Nov 30, 2013
If you’ve been reading this series from the beginning, you’ll notice that we’ve already covered les sites les plus connus de Paris (Paris’s most famous sights). We will now be taking the time to visit (virtuellement, bien sûr) some of the more obscure and lesser-known sights. You may not be familiar with these, but they…
Le Paradis blanc (White Paradise) Posted by Hichem on Nov 21, 2013
When it comes to traveling, the expression of paradis terrestre (earthly paradise) evokes for most people a warm, exotic, and quite far destination on the planet. Think along the lines of Hawai, the Caribbeans, or even Bora Bora in French Polynesia! Not everyone would agree on that, however. For the late French singer Michel Berger, for example, a…
A Trip to Paris: Visiting the French Capital’s Most Famous Attractions (Part 3) Posted by mtaulier on Nov 4, 2013
Je suis heureux de voir revoir. Continuons notre visit de la capitale Française (I’m glad to see you again. Let us continue our visit of the French capital). In the last two posts, we visited virtuellement (virtually) la Tour Eiffel, l’Arc de Triomphe and la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris. Aujourd’hui nous allons visiter un des…
Stromae’s “Papaoutai” (Read: “Where Are You, Dad?”) Posted by Hichem on Oct 19, 2013
A very good friend of mine just told me that he enjoyed a lot listening to this French song by Stromae. Its titre (title)? “Papaoutai” What? You’re not sure if it sounds French? Well, true, it at least sounds like une onomatopée (an onomatopoeia), like a French frog (a real one, please) that would go “coac coac” (Americans…
“Ze” Top 50 Largest Cities of France Posted by Hichem on Sep 19, 2013
Not only will we get to know the Top 50 Largest Cities of France in terms of population, we will also go through lots of past articles published here on French Blog which either covered these cities and regions in detail, or at least mentioned une chose ou deux (a thing or two) that you might find interesting about…