Literary Paris
  • 07
  • Jan
  • 2010

It’s not a secret that Ernest Hemingway loved Paris. He came to live in Paris in the rouring 20′s and wrote some novels there. His early work lik 3 Stories and 10 Poems – In our Time – The torrents of Spring and his famous The Sun always Rises. He met other famous artists like James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Miro, Picasso,… and is said to be a member of the “Lost Generation”.

One of his favourite place to have some drinks was Les Deux Magots . He was frequently seen at Shakespeare and Company , Sylvia Beach encouraged him a lot and introdused him to other artists.

He did love to stroll around in the Luxembourg Museum and also the Luxembourg Gardens.

Alternative concept store
  • 05
  • Jan
  • 2010

Le petit endroit in the Marais is an alternative concept store ,a boutique-gallery owned by Sylvie Grumbach. She mixes different genres with designer Christian Ghion.

Every five or six weeks a fashion designer, a photographer, an artist transforms the whole place and take over.

Le petit endroit, 14, Rue Portefoin, 75003 Paris, tel 01 42 33 99 26

Small prices at your feet
  • 02
  • Jan
  • 2010

Chez Cindy Glass at 47, Rue Charlot, 75003 Paris, right in the Marais, one can find nice and special shoes, from classic pumps until sexy ultra-feminine.

The models are mostly rather classic so that one can walk easily but the fabrics are quite daring. And very important the prices are reasonable.

A little extra is the Foot massage space after which your feet get wings.

Cindy Glass, 47, Rue Charlot, 75003 Paris, tel. 01 42 77 60 66,