Wednesday September 30 was another beautiful sunny day (high 18C). We set off to the Palais Garnier to pick up tickets to the Ballet for next Monday night.
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Palais Garnier
We decided to visit the new Fragonard Musee du Parfum, which just opened this year a few blocks from the Palais Garnier. Fragonard perfumes was founded in Grasse by a Parisian lawyer, Eugene Fuchs, in 1926. He named the perfumery after Jean-Honore Fragonard, the 18th century painter, who was also from Grasse. Fuchs got permission to use the name Fragonard from the painter's descendants. There was a guided tour of the museum, which we were not allowed to photograph. Lots of beautiful perfume bottles through the ages. Ah, the 15th century when people stopped washing and only used perfume to disguise body odours. We also learned about how perfume is made.
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| Poster for Musee |
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| Entrance to Museum |
At the end of the tour, there was area with perfume which we sampled.
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Perfume area
After the tour, we walked to the Palais Royal, passing a poster for Paris Fashion week, which runs from September 29 - October 7.
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When we got to Palais Royal, we first had a coffee at a new coffee shop- Cafe Kitsune. Paris is definitely getting better coffee than the old days.
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| Inside of Cafe Kitsune- great poster from the Olympia |
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| Alain with coffee at Palais Royal |
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| Moi Aussi |
We then went to our favourite scarf store- Epice, where I got Alain a new scarf for his birthday. I forgot to take a picture, but I'm sure Alain will wear his scarf during the trip and it will show up later in the blog.
We then wandered around the Palais Royal. There is a wonderful exhibit of 20 abstract rock sculptures by Thierry Courtadon. His father and grandfather were stone masons. The sculptures were amazing and fit beautifully into the Palais Royal gardens.
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| Fountain in middle of Palais Royal- lots of folks enjoying the sun |
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| Alain with sculpture |
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| Beautiful lace-like effect |
It was a wonderful show!
Lots of Snoopys around Paris- it's his 65th birthday!!
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More flowers
We then walked down to L'Hotel de Ville (City Hall) and checked out the free exhibit entitled Le Dressing de Reve des Parisians. The exhibit coincided with Fashion Week and showcased a number of Paris designers-- many from the Marais and Saint Germain areas.
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| Tres chic |
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| Clothes from the show |
We then wandered into the Marais and stopped at
O Paris, a wonderful clothing store on Rue Bourg Tibourg. I bought a great tunic-like drapey piece. We posed for a picture with Laurent, the designer and owner.
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| Alain, me and Laurent at O Paris |
We continued to wander-- saw a fashion crowd sipping bubbly outside a store -- lots of black styl'n in Paris this week.
We were getting tired after all our walking (over 20,000 steps on Fitbit), so took the Metro back to the apartment for another great fish dinner. We stayed up until 1:30 a.m. listening on Sirius XM to the Jays clinch the Division Title! So exciting. Go Jays Go!
Well I think Alain is looking more tres chic than the cutout dude. Are the moose antlers perhaps Canadian? You both fit in so perfectly there with your cool ensembles - very Paris.
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