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More weird public art in the
One of the scientists I admire the most, Louis Pasteur, has an entire
window of a store-front medical laboratory devoted to his
accomplishments. This is on rue de
Vaugirard. |
I am so mad at
Nicolas Sarkozy now. You probably
already heard about the sad case of Jeff, because it made the New York Times. In case you have not, Jeff is a lad who is
19 years old, just recently graduated from high school here in And now Sarkozy
has told the mayor of Cachan that the problem of the squatters in his town’s
gymnasium is his problem, not At any rate, he
is almost assuredly the conservative party’s Presidential candidate in next
Spring’s elections. His main opponent
may well be a woman, Ségolène Royal, from the socialist party. Ségolène is the only candidate, according
to the opinion polls so far, who could possibly beat Sarkozy. Ségo and Sarko are both very popular. Yet,
inexplicably, the socialists are all fighting amongst each other because
there are about five other socialists (all men) who want to be the candidate,
never mind that the polls show that they would not win. The socialist party needs to get its act
together. Royal refused
to debate with the militant young socialists at the socialist party’s summer
convention (an event that is not really like one of our big national party
conventions, but more like a party convention in a big state like I’m still reading Sarko’s book, even though I’m
fed up with him, because I’m learning some useful idiomatic French from
it. Since it is in first person
narrative form, the book is useful for this purpose. And it is also very current. We finally made
it back to L’Épopée on avenue Émile Zola.
Even though they have not seen us since August 2005, monsieur and
madame remembered us instantly, greeted us warmly, remembered what we each
like to drink, and remembered some of our favorite little jokes. The food was the best yet that we have had
in this fine (and slightly expensive) restaurant. There was a new vegetable terrine served
with the main courses. I asked our
server, who is monsieur and madame’s daughter, what was in it. She didn’t know exactly, so she went to ask
“maman.” Mother didn’t know either,
and so the daughter went downstairs to ask the chef! I think this must be a new chef with new
ideas of his own. By the way, the
terrine was made with cèpes (large brown flavorful mushrooms), artichokes,
and cabbage. It was lovely. We’ve been on
very long walks now that the rain is gone.
Yesterday, we walked all the way across Today, with
more absolutely gorgeous weather, we walked up the Allée des Cygnes and then
over into the Passy neighborhood, in the chic 16th arrondissement,
then back via the Passerelle de Billy and all the way over to the flower
market on rue Linois (where we bought a lovely bouquet to leave for the
apartment owners who return Sunday) and back home again. |
