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This came out in my favorite newspaper and magazine Le Figaro, so I am translating here from the French. The article took a lot of comments back in March 2019 , and I feel its time to update the post, It mention a list of the 100 ways you can be or are sure to be a Parisien. That is a general overview and not an exact science, However, let me update this post w ith new text and links for you and me, I will just concentrate on those I feel most identify mind you as 100 is a lot ! Of course, this post will be on my black and white series, no pictures, Therefore, here is my take on how to be a Parisien…..really…! Hope you enjoy the post as I.

I start with my best references such as taken a breakfast in the terrace of Café Marly (1éme),

Be seated at a table in l’Abtrance (16 éme),

Had organise a goodbye party to a colleague at the Train Bleu, gare de Lyon ( 12éme),

Had eaten an onion soup at Le Cochon a l’Oreille in the Halles (1 éme),

Had bought a ice cream cone at Bertillon, the main house in the 4éme,

Have the pleasure to fill your basket in the Grande Épicerie du Bon Marché (7éme)

Have fallen for the caramel macaron with salted butter at Ladurée (8éme)

Believe you were stuck in New York having a club sandwich at Harry’s Bar  (2 éme)

Had drank and participated with the winegrowers while the feast of Fête des vendanges de Montmartre, early October,

Had eaten un fallafel a Sunday at As du Fallafel , rue des Rosiers (IVe ),

Had purchase the favorite tea at Mariage Frères ,30 rue du Bourg-Tibourg (4éme),

Had taken a cafe at Café de Flore ,172 boulevard St Germain,(6éme),

To be hug on the quai de la Tournelle,

To have order a cocktail at the Bar Hemingway in the Ritz Hotel,

To have appointment at least once on the parvis de Notre-Dame, the fountain of Saint-Michel or the steps of the Opéra Garnier,

To have done a jogging in the jardin des Tuileries at sunrise

To go walking in the city while celebrating a white night or Nuit Blanche,

To have taken the electric stairs at the Beaubourg,

To admire the windows of Christmas or Noël in the big department stores all of them,

To get lost in the basements of the  Châtelet-les Halles,

To walk along rue Saint-Honoré without spending nothing

To have assisted at march of the 14 Juillet  in the  Champs-Élysées,

To have put a small sailboat to ride in the lake of jardin du Luxembourg and jardin des Tuileries (for my boys),

To have waited for the tour Eiffel to flips it lights from the Théatre de Chaillot, at the entrance.

To have waited for the sunrise from the steps of Sacré-Cœur

To have gone to the Louvre, simply to smile at the mona lisa and delayed your stay at the salle des Rubens,

To have admired the work of Nuit étoilée by Van Gogh at the museum of Orsay,

To have entered the Shop/atelier of Delacroix at place de Furstenberg,

To have seen the work  Porte de l’enfer inside the park of the museum of Rodin,

To have understood what is Austerlitz at the Invalides,

To have walk between the girafes and elephants in the Galerie de l’Evolution, jardin des Plantes,

Be entered in the drawers of the Bank of France while a heritage days event or Journées du patrimoine,

To have taken your companion to the oldest theater of Guignol of Paris , rond-point des Champs-Élysées ,

To found yourselves seduce by shopping on Sunday in the rue des Francs-Bourgeois (4éme),

To have pushed the doors at the Herboristerie du Palais-Royal (Ier) and ask plenty of questions,

To come out of Colette (Iéme) with many things of no use whatsoever,

To have desire to buy a pet dog right away at the animal stands along quai de la Mégisserie (Ier)

To have fallen for a ride with a nice taxi driver,

To have done the experience of the high rise hair on the head of the electrostatique room of the Palais de la Découverte,

To have spent the month of August in Paris.

Oh yes ,my eternal Paris , its sublime indeed, a mouvable feast…Paris forever. The saying simply the best was created for it. There are so many but feel the above are the most characteristics of been in Paris, lucky me to have worked there and lived nearby for almost 10 years and come often for visits nowdays,, Again, hope you enjoy this post on how to be a Parisien,,, really,,, ! as I.

And remember, happy travels ,good health, and many cheers to all !!!