Jardin du Palais Royal

The Gar­dens at the Pal­ais Royal are dis­tinctly dif­fer­ent from those at the Lux­em­bourg. A grand urban court­yard, the Pal­ais Royal have been a pub­lic garden from imme­di­ately prior to the Revolu­tion. The Pal­ais Royal was owned by the Duc d’Orleans, an aris­to­crat who sought pop­u­lar appeal. As today, the court­yard was sur­roun­ded by cloistered …

The Slow Pace of Bercy Village

There’s a neat spot, a little off the beaten track, in Paris that I have some fond memor­ies of. It’s an oasis, small in scale and slow in pace. It’s not the sort of place that you find in the tour­ist dir­ect­or­ies and its not envel­oped by the legend of Paris vaca­tion­eer­ing. Bercy Vil­lage is …