Re blog and still holds true, how to be a Parisien!
This came out in my favorite newspaper and magazine Le Figaro, so I am translating here from the French. The 100 ways you can be or are sure to be a Parisien. That fits my bill alright ::)
1. Had dinner at Tokyo Eat (16éme) and not needing to open the door to the Palais de Tokyo
2. Taken a breakfast in the terrace of Café Marly (1 éme)
3. Be seated at a table in l’Abtrance (16 éme)
4. Had organise a goodbye party to a colleague at the Train Bleu, gare de Lyon ( 12éme)
5. Had dinner at Lipp (6 éme) at the first floor and street side with preference next to a famous head statue
6. Had eaten an onion soup at Halles (1 éme)
7. had bought a ice cream cone at Bertillon, the main house in the 4éme
8. Had tasted a Paris-Brest by Philippe Conticini in the Patisserie des Reves in rue du Bac (7éme)
9. have the pleasure to fill your basket in the Grande Épicerie du Bon Marché (7éme)
10. Have fallen for the caramel macaron with salted butter at Ladurée (8éme)
11. had taken a mint tea at the Mosquée de Paris (5 éme)
12. had for lunch a tamoul at Pooja ( 10éme)
13. Clean plate of a côte de bœuf for two at 6am in Chez Denise or La Tour de Montlhèly (I éme)
14. Believe you were stuck in New York having a club sandwich at Harry’s Bar (II éme)
15. Had ordered a cheese dish at Marie-Anne Cantin (VIIe)
16. Ruined yourselves a Sunday morning at the bio market in boulevard Raspail (VIIe)
17. had lunch un bento at Kunitoraya 2 (Ier)
18. had drank and participated with the winegrowers while the feast of Fête des vendanges de Montmartre, early October
19. had eaten un fallafel a Sunday at As du Fallafel , rue des Rosiers (IVe )
21. had found the bag to go buy the flowers at Rungis and eat oysters
22. had purchase the favorite tea at Mariage Frères
23. had a picnic on the pont des Arts
24. had taken a bite of a libanese sandwich at avenue George-V to think you are in Beirut
25. had a stop a pause at New Nioullaville (XIe) to enter into the Chinese new year
26. had taken a cafe at Flore
27. be seated in front of a breakfast « plateau » at Coupole, sitting on the red benches but not in the terrace
28. to not swear if by the head of veal at Apicius (VIIIe)
29. to be hug on the quai de la Tournelle
30. to have order a cocktail at the Bar Hemingway in the Ritz, at the eye color of the invited person, (do it before it closes for renovations)
31. to have rented a room at the Hotel Chopin at passage Jouffroy (IXe)
32. to have mark your name and of your love one in the walls of the catacombes
33. had played the card of double winner, champagne plus plaid on one the bridges of a Bateau-Mouche toenjoy the lights of the city of llights
34. to have appointment at least once on the parvis de Notre-Dame, the fountain of Saint-Michel or the steps of the Opéra Garnier
35. to have taken a glass facing the sun set at Bourbon, behind the Assemblée nationale
36. to take a walk at cementary Père Lachaise passing in front of the tombs of Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde
37. to have descended on the sewers of Paris to breath its odors !
38. to have done a jogging in the jardin des Tuileries at sunrise
39. to take a tour around the place des Vosges in trying to find the appartments of Jack Lang, Maître Binoche, and DSK
40. to have gone to Aubervilliers in the home camp of Bartabas
41. to subscribe for a ride iin rollers blades in Paris
42. to go walking in the city while celebrating a white night or Nuit blanche
43. to have purchase a subscription to a Vélib’
44. to have taken the electric stairs at the Beaubourg
45. to admire the windows of Christmas or Noël in the big department stores
46. to look for the Café des Deux Moulins, rue Lepic, thinking of Amélie Poulain
47. to get lost in the basements of the Châtelet-les Halles
48. to walk along rue Saint-Honoré without spending nothing
49. to be confused with Shirley McLaine in Irma la Douce (Billy Wilder) while walking rue Casanova (Ier )
50. to have missed a change in the change at Michel-Ange-Molitor and do a tour for nothing on the line 10 of the metro of paris
51. to have assisted at march of the 14 Juillet in the Champs-Élysées
52. to have put a small sailboat to ride in the lake of jardin du Luxembourg or des Tuileries
53. to go see the old crocodiles at porte Dorée
54. to finish reading a romance novel in a green chair (hard to find) at the jardin du Luxembourg
55. to have purchase a ticket for a night of Pedro Almodovar or Lynch at the Cinema CHampollion (Ve) or for an episode of Star Wars at the Grand Rex (IIe)
56. to have yell at and insulted the taxis that goes by all full
57. to go dance at a Bal des pompiers, an evening of the 14 Juillet
58. to have waited for the tour Eiffel to flips it lights from the Théatre de Chaillot, at the entrance.
59. to have taken an aperitif on the canal Saint-Martin, between two rounds of the game pétanque
60. to have dance for a song of a DJ at Batofar
61. to have dance on the salons of Maxim’s the friday evening for the parties of Belle Époque
62. to have walk an evening of winter on the racecourse of trotters in Vincennes
63. to be seen been refuse entrance to chez Castel
64. to have come in on foot a morning, because of no bus nor metro
65. to have waited for the sunrise from the steps of Sacré-Cœur
66. to go to the Collége de France and assist of its courses for free
67. to be one evening on the presentation at the gallery Kamel Mennour (VIe) to see an artist such as Claude Levêque,or Daniel Buren)
68. to have seen an opera at the Bastille
69. to have gone to the Louvre, simply to smile at the mona lisa and delayed your stay at the salle des Rubens
71. to have look and see at the aisles of La Hune (new address) or of the Écume des Pages (VIe)
72. to have admired the work of Nuit étoilée by Van Gogh at the museum of Orsay
73. to have entered the Shop/atelier of Delacroix at place de Furstenberg
74. to have try to enter the Chateau des Brouillards in the butte Montmartre
75. to have seen the work Porte de l’enfer inside the park of the museum of Rodin
76. to have understood what is Austerlitz at the Invalides
77. to have entered the metro by the mouth of Guimard ,porte Dauphine or that of Othoniel at place du Palais-Royal
78. to have walk between the girafes and elephants in the Galerie de l’Evolution, jardin des Plantes
79. to have seen a musical play at the Théatre du Chatelet
80. have seen play the Philarmonica of Vienna or Berlin on the TCE
81. Be entered in the drawers of the Bank of France while a heritage days event or Journées du patrimoine
82. to have taken your companion to the oldest theater of Guignol of Paris , rond-point des Champs-Élysées
83. to found yourselves seduce by shopping on Sunday in the rue des Francs-Bourgeois (IVe)
84. to have purchase old 45/78 vinyls music records at Crocodisc (Ve)
85. to have pushed the doors at the Herboristerie du Palais-Royal (Ier) and ask plenty of questions
87. to come out of Colette (Iéme) with many things of no use whatsoever
88. to have desire to buy a pet dog right away at the animal stands along quai de la Mégisserie (Ier)
89. tohave assisted to an Orthodox mass in rue Daru (VIIIe)
90. to enrich yourself but not much in a sales room at Drouot
91. to have taken time to take care of yourself in a spa on a palace hotel such as Plaza Athénée or Meurice hotels
92. tohave spend 90 cents for an egg mayo at Voltaire (VIIe)
93. tohave try to walk the sidewalks of the palais de l’Élysée and be reprimend by the police force
94. to have fallen for a ride with a nice taxi driver
95. to have taken a glass at the first floor of Café Germain and see past the young bust of Sophie, the sculpture of Xavier Veilhan
96. to have attended a march of the ballet in the Opéra de Paris, and be ready for its reverence
97. to have been mistaken for a statue in the columns of Buren
98. to have done the experience of the high rise hair on the head of the electrostatique room of the Palais de la Découvertr
99. had try the guitars n the stores of the rue de Douai (IXe)
100. to have spent the month of August in Paris
Yes its sublime Paris isn’t it….Paris forever. The saying simply the best was created for it. Cheers ! Parisiens.
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