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Holidays in Paris 2024: Galeries Lafayette

Here’s my first entry for my annual series of blog posts celebrating the winter holidays in Paris.

Today, it’s Galeries Lafayette, which has cool and flamboyant window displays with Santa dressed in tinsel, big beaked birds with eyes of colored beads, extravagant Baccarat chandeliers, and princesses in shimmering silver.

Celebrating their 130^th anniversary, Galeries Lafayette is doing to the hilt = Kevin Germanier (designer of the special Golden Voyager costume for the closing night of the Paris Olympics) creating delightful and sustainable windows, using upcycled materials. 

Inside, the iconic and immense holiday tree, has 20,000 magical,flashing lights.  

 

Eye Need to Do’s December 2024: The Nutcracker, Christofle, Les Miserables, and Jardin des Plantes

The Nutcracker

Choreographer Blanca Li updates The Nutcracker using hip-hop with the eight street dancers moving to the beat of Tchaikovsky.

Until January 4, 2025

https://www.sortiraparis.com/en/what-to-see-in-paris/shows/articles/316592-the-nutcracker-blanca-li-s-hip-hop-version-of-the-show-in-paris

Christofle-A Brilliant Story

A new exhibition shares the rise of Christofle, as a major house for gold and silver craftsmanship. It starts with the Charles Christofle and Henri Bouilhet, who started the company in the 1830s, and later transforms into an international brand.

Until April 20, 2025

Musee des Arts Decoratifs

107 rue de Rivoli, 75001

https://madparis.fr/Christofle-a-brilliant-story

Les Miserables

After a 30-year absence, one of the greatest musicals, Les Miserables returns to Paris. The new production has a revamped script and is performed in French with English subtitles.

Until January 3, 2025

Chatelet Theater  

https://www.chatelet.com/en/programmation/24-25/les-miserables/

Jurassic Illuminations at Jardin de Plantes

The Museum of Paleontology is going Jurassic for the holiday season with giant illuminated dinosaurs and reptiles throughout the Jardin de Plantes

Until January 19, 2025

https://www.sortiraparis.com/en/what-to-visit-in-paris/walks/articles/177574-jurassic-illumination-the-2024-2025-festival-of-lights-at-the-jardin-des-plantes-photos

EYE PREFER PARIS POSTCARDS FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS

I am offering a holiday sale of free shipping on Eye Prefer Paris Door Postcards. In addition, if you want to send them as a holiday gift, I can handwrite a personalized card for you.

For a set of 18 cards, you will save $12, and for a set of 9 cards, you will save $8.

Just in time for the holidays, the Eye Prefer Paris-Paris Door Collection makes a perfect gift for your Francophile friends and family.

IMPORTANT! You must order your cards before December 10, as I mail them from Paris, and it takes 10 days to 2 weeks to arrive in the U.S.

CLICK HERE to order 18 cards: 3 Red Doors, 3 Blue Doors, 3 Green Doors, 3 Wood Doors, 3 Iron Doors, and 3 Door Knockers. 

Cost: $65 Includes Free Shipping.

CLICK HERE to order 9 postcards: 3 Red Doors, 3 Blue Doors, 3 Green Doors.

Cost: $35 Includes Free shipping

CLICK HERE to order 9 postcards: 3 Wood Doors, 3 Iron Doors, and 3 Door Knockers

Cost: $35 Includes Free shipping 

Postcards are hand-wrapped with love from Paris and mailed in an elegant, French-blue envelope. 

Just in time for the holidays, the Eye Prefer Paris-Paris Door Collection makes a perfect gift for your Francophile friends and family.

Blue Doors

Green Doors

Blue Doors

Metal Doors

Wood Doors

Door Knockers

 

Eye Prefer Paris Postcards Holiday Sale

I am offering a holiday sale of free shipping on Eye Prefer Paris Door Postcards. In addition, if you want to send them as a holiday gift, I can handwrite a personalized card for you.

For a set of 18 cards, you will save $12, and for a set of 9 cards, you will save $8.

Just in time for the holidays, the Eye Prefer Paris-Paris Door Collection makes a perfect gift for your Francophile friends and family.

IMPORTANT! You must order your cards before December 10, as I mail them from Paris, and it takes 10 days to 2 weeks to arrive in the U.S.

CLICK HERE to order 18 cards: 3 Red Doors, 3 Blue Doors, 3 Green Doors, 3 Wood Doors, 3 Iron Doors, and 3 Door Knockers. 

Cost: $65 Includes Free Shipping.

CLICK HERE to order 9 postcards: 3 Red Doors, 3 Blue Doors, 3 Green Doors.

Cost: $35 Includes Free shipping

CLICK HERE to order 9 postcards: 3 Wood Doors, 3 Iron Doors, and 3 Door Knockers

Cost: $35 Includes Free shipping 

Postcards are hand-wrapped with love from Paris and mailed in an elegant, French-blue envelope. 

Just in time for the holidays, the Eye Prefer Paris-Paris Door Collection makes a perfect gift for your Francophile friends and family.

Blue Doors

Green Doors

Metal Doors

Wood Doors

Door Knockers

Happy Thanksgiving 2024

Here is my annual Thanksgiving blog, which I've published before. Enjoy!

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays and every year I publish this French Thanksgiving vocabulary list, courtesy of my former New York French teacher, Luc Georges.

Since Thanksgiving is not an official holiday in France, many ex-pats postpone their Thanksgiving dinner for Friday or Saturday, but some are traditionalists and make it on Thursday.

Happy Thanksgiving and be thankful for what you have and for your family and friends. What are you thankful for this year? 

French Thanksgiving Vocabulary

Thanksgiving    le jour de l'action de grâce
autumn, fall    l'automne
colony    une colonie
feast    un festin, un banquet
football    le football américain
grateful    (adj)    reconnaissant
harvest    la récolte
horn of plenty    la corne d'abondance
native    (adj)    natif
(Native American) Indians    les Indiens (d'Amérique)
November    novembre
parade    un défilé
Pilgrims    les pèlerins
settlers    les colons
to share    partager
Thursday    jeudi
tradition    une tradition
traditional    (adj)    traditionnel
treaty    un traité
tribe    une tribu
 
The food served for the Thanksgiving feast varies from home to home, but here are some traditional dishes.

EYE PREFER PARIS POSTCARDS FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS

I am offering a holiday sale of free shipping on Eye Prefer Paris Door Postcards. In addition, if you want to send them as a holiday gift, I can handwrite a personalized card for you.

For a set of 18 cards, you will save $12, and for a set of 9 cards, you will save $8.

Just in time for the holidays, the Eye Prefer Paris-Paris Door Collection makes a perfect gift for your Francophile friends and family.

IMPORTANT! You must order your cards before December 10, as I mail them from Paris, and it takes 10 days to 2 weeks to arrive in the U.S.

CLICK HERE to order 18 cards: 3 Red Doors, 3 Blue Doors, 3 Green Doors, 3 Wood Doors, 3 Iron Doors, and 3 Door Knockers. 

Cost: $65 Includes Free Shipping.

CLICK HERE to order 9 postcards: 3 Red Doors, 3 Blue Doors, 3 Green Doors.

Cost: $35 Includes Free shipping

CLICK HERE to order 9 postcards: 3 Wood Doors, 3 Iron Doors, and 3 Door Knockers

Cost: $35 Includes Free shipping 

Postcards are hand-wrapped with love from Paris and mailed in an elegant, French-blue envelope. 

Just in time for the holidays, the Eye Prefer Paris-Paris Door Collection makes a perfect gift for your Francophile friends and family.

Blue Doors

Green Doors

Blue Doors

Metal Doors

Wood Doors

Door Knockers

food    la nourriture
corn    le maïs
cranberries    les canneberges
gravy    la sauce au jus de viande
mashed potatoes    la purée
pumpkin pie    la tarte à la citrouille
stuffing    la farce
sweet potatoes    les patates douces
turkey    la dinde
yam    un igname 

Doors of the Month, November 2024 -Vincennes

Vincennes is a suburb of Paris east of the city, at the end of the # 1 Metro line. It’s best known for the Chateau de Vincennes, a former fortress and chateau built in the mid-1300s, and the Bois Vincennes, the largest park in Paris.

I have never spent much time in Vincennes except to go to the chateau on a few occasions. Last summer, I spent in afternoon in Vincennes, a quiet and primarily residential neighborhood. There’s are many Art Nouveau and arts and crafts houses and building form the early 1900s.

Along the way I discovered a bevy of great doors.

EYE PREFER PARIS POSTCARDS FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS

I am offering a holiday sale of free shipping on Eye Prefer Paris Door Postcards. In addition, if you want to send them as a holiday gift, I can handwrite a personalized card for you.

For a set of 18 cards, you will save $12, and for a set of 9 cards, you will save $8.

Just in time for the holidays, the Eye Prefer Paris-Paris Door Collection makes a perfect gift for your Francophile friends and family.

IMPORTANT! You must order your cards before December 10, as I mail them from Paris, and it takes 10 days to 2 weeks to arrive in the U.S.

CLICK HERE to order 18 cards: 3 Red Doors, 3 Blue Doors, 3 Green Doors, 3 Wood Doors, 3 Iron Doors, and 3 Door Knockers. 

Cost: $65 Includes Free Shipping.

CLICK HERE to order 9 postcards: 3 Red Doors, 3 Blue Doors, 3 Green Doors.

Cost: $35 Includes Free shipping

CLICK HERE to order 9 postcards: 3 Wood Doors, 3 Iron Doors, and 3 Door Knockers

Cost: $35 Includes Free shipping 

Postcards are hand-wrapped with love from Paris and mailed in an elegant, French-blue envelope. 

Just in time for the holidays, the Eye Prefer Paris-Paris Door Collection makes a perfect gift for your Francophile friends and family.

Blue Doors

Green Doors

Metal Doors

Wood Doors

Door Knockers