Yikes! Day nine already! Today I took the crew to a magnificent kitchen supply store I visited when I was with study abroad in 1982. Not like Versailles magnificent, but like the coolest, most ancient store ever! We got some stuff! L'Église de Sainte-Eustache is just steps away. Located next to the former Les Halles, a magnificent 19th-century covered market (largest in Europe) with iron canopies, that was demolished to make way for a crappy shopping mall! Oh well. Kris and I went to see the Place des Victoires, a roundabout with a statue of Louis XIV as focal point. (In all my previous visits, I had never seen it.) We walked through the garden of the Palais-Royale, a 17th-century palace that is now filled with chic shops and restaurants. We met the Taylor-Woodburys at the Rodin Museum and walked past Les Invalides to the Rue Cler where we had a late lunch at Le Petit Cler. The Rue Cler is lined with market stalls and cafes. Back at the flat, Lucy Jane dropped by to visit while she waited for her date in the Rue Mouffetard nearby.
3 comments:
The shopping mall is a tragedy. Truly. Imagine how popular Les Halles would be in 2021 as it was. Was it a 90's or 80's mistake?
I want to go to the kitchen store!
Like the loss of Penn Station. Unthinkable, but it happened. Even the fight to save the B.Y. Academy was much harder than it should have been. Odd.
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