Hotels Paris Rive Gauche

For its tenth year, this enormous three-day festival of rock and electronic music has pulled out all the stops. If you're a music-lover in Paris between the 4th and 6th June 2008, you know where to go...

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Few of Paris' parks are open at night. The Parc de le Villette is an exception, and we happened to be there just a couple of nights ago to take a couple of photos for you...

all photos: jasonw

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Kiraz is extremely well-known in France for his instantly recognisable style of drawings, especially his series of impossibly tall and thin women called 'Les Parisiennes'. The Musée Carnavalet, the Paris museum about Paris, is holding an exhibition showing his large body of work.

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For the third year running, we've installed three beehives on the roof of the Eiffel Park Hôtel. Take a look at our photo gallery of them settling in...

all photos: jasonw. Full Flickr gallery here

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Initially a Rive Gauche affair, the 2nd edition of this event has now spread to most other parts of Paris as well...

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Just a reminder of the wonders you'll find every day on our blog...

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It's a long street in the heart of Saint Germain, it's where our new Hotel Ferrandi is situated, and neither you or I know it very well for the moment (well, I don't), so we decided to walk down it - yes, all of it! - to give you an idea of the charming shops you'll find there.

all photos (c) jasonw

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There are lots of great-looking restaurants down rue du Cherche-Midi, but this one caught our attention with their ad for patisserie classes and held our attention with their rather delicious food...

all photos (c) jasonw

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Yep, Pope Benedict is coming to Paris.

photo (c) M&M Ski

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After being closed for a three-month refit, the catacombs are now open again. 253,000 people visited this bizarre, macabre attraction last year, and this number increases every year. Read on to find out what's new in the world of the dead...

photo (c) -karolinka-

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Was trying out my mega-zoom yesterday during a particularly warm day in Paris. So where are these people standing? Click on to find out...

photo (c) jasonw

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For the 19th year running, from 1st - 3rd May 2008, charity Arcat is organising a giant sale of clothes and other objects, all donated by famous designers (over 200 of them!). Your chance to spend less, look good and do good.

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Very clearly a promotional excuse to raise the profile of their women's clothes brand, Fornarina are putting on a special - free - event that mixes fashion, music and art. A 'happening' I suppose you could call it...

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Essential for crossing the city and seeing the sites...

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If your (sad) excuse for never going to museums is that they close early and cost a lot, this free late night event is definitely for you.

© Centre Pompidou. Photo Georges Meguerditchian

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Each year for an event known as Monumenta, an artist is commissioned to used the space of the Grand Palais for a new work. This year Richard Serra, known for his monumental metal sculptures, will be presenting his creation 'Promenade'. A major artistic event in this most particular of places...

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Bringing together over one hundred paintings, objects or films, Narrative Figuration Paris, 1960-1972 is an exploration of the sources of the figurative revival which marked the history of art in the sixties in Paris...

La Antelasa, Equipo Crόnica, Coll. Fondation Juan March., Madrid, © ADAGP, Paris 2008

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Inspirés autant par la photo, le cinéma, la publicité, la BD que par la peinture classique, les artistes de la Figuration narrative, venus de tous les horizons culturels, détournent l’image pour en révéler des sens inattendus, servir leurs implications politiques et suggérer d’autres narrations. Plus de 100 oeuvres sont aujourd’hui rassemblées pour la première fois aux Galeries du Grand Palais dans une exposition qui invite à découvrir ou redécouvrir ce mouvement majeur de la scène artistique française des années 60 et 70.

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The mythical French car is 60 this year...

photo (c) cite.sciences

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Bigger every year, and now international with a sister event in Los Angeles, this festival has a wide variety of surprising and exciting films on offer on the theme of exploring and preserving our planet...

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