Paris Off Script

01/01/2025

Thank you for your likes, follows, and personal messages. To my clients past, present, and future, mille mercis, I am grateful. Une très belle et heureuse année 2025. May you follow your dreams.

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25/12/2024

With wishes for peace on earth and goodwill to all. Joyeux Noël.

09/12/2024

No caption needed. (Photo is mine.) www.parisoffscript.com

29/11/2024

As so often happens to me in Paris, a gate opens and I enter a secret courtyard. Here, in a delightful space in Montmartre, I looked around and was charmed. And then I cast my gaze a little farther, and this is what I saw. Whether you dream of going to Paris or have been many times, I will show you a Paris you've never seen and help you understand how Paris came to be Paris. February 18–22, 2025; April 14–18, 2025; November 4–8, 2025.

21/11/2024

It snowed today in Paris, but it was more bark than bite. A perfect day to spend contemplating a bloody, complicated year in French history. And musing over things like Robespierre’s portefeuille, Jean-Paul Marat’s mortuary mask and mandible, and the oxymoron of a guillotine blade’s humane death.

17/11/2024

Contente / happy!
February 18–22, 2025. April 14–18, 2025. November 4–8, 2025.
First come, first served.

04/11/2024

L'escalier ou L'homme à la valise, an arresting street art mural by artist Fabio Rieti. He had this to say about street art: "It's mainly to arouse interest and provoke discussion. Many young people walk around with a tablet in their hand and no longer have any connection with the urban landscape. It's a new and dangerous thing, which ends up locking us into a virtual life instead of a material one. In this respect, the city should be seen as one big apartment, made for everyone, for anyone." This resonates on so many levels. It is Paris: real, vibrant, astonishing, alive. Come experience that Paris with me. No lines, no crowds, just us and this magnificent city. February 18–22, 2025; April 14–18, 2025; fall 2025 TBA.

23/10/2024

Paris—there are the highlights, no explanation needed. And then there are the lo-lights, as in local. All those things everyone says they want to experience but never quite know where or how. Experiencing local Paris, like a local. That's my expertise. So, what are you waiting for?

07/10/2024

Paris—beautiful, irresistible! February 18–22, 2025. April 14–18, 2025. Feeling spontaneous? Contact me about options for this November.

23/09/2024

About her experience with me, one client said, "You do make magic happen." Which prompted this memory: When I was a child, foxtails were my magic wands. From the top of a slide on a backyard playset in the twilight of summer evenings, while a chorus of crickets sang, I waved my wand over an imaginary domain, creating magic. I still create magic, though it takes both imagination and hard work. And the domain is Paris. Come with me and experience magic.

02/09/2024

September newsletter!
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An exciting new season Paris Tips and Tidbits Photo courtesy of Willem Longendyke Welcome to September—c’est la rentrée! Not familiar with that unique French phenomenon, la rentrée? Understanding its

16/08/2024

Be inspired!

10/08/2024

Montmartre 2024. Monet 1878.
📸Superb photo on the left by Canadian photographer Bilal Aouffen.

03/08/2024

In the opening ceremony of the Olympics, there were lots of references to French history. But depending on where and how you watched, they were largely unannounced and thus easy to miss. Take the Olympic cauldron in the spectacular finale. The nod was to the Montgolfier brothers who launched the first hot-air balloon in the late 18th century. So notable was this in aviation history that the word for hot-air balloon entered the French lexicon as une montgolfière. Then there is the significance of the site of les Tuileries. Six months after the Montgolfier feat, the first hydrogen balloon went aloft from the grounds in front of where the Palais des Tuileries once stood. Very close to the spot where, 241 years later, the Paris 2024 Olympic cauldron rose into the air! But what about the plaque in the photo? Now that's an off script story! By the late 1780s, balloon aviation had gone from hot-air to hydrogen, from tethered to untethered, from unmanned to manned. What was left? On October 22, 1797, André-Jacques Garnerin made history by descending in a basket attached to a frameless parachute that he'd invented, borne aloft by a balloon!

14/07/2024

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It's Bastille Day! Happy to announce an exciting new travel adventure. You can get all the details here in our latest newsletter. Bonne lecture!

News flash! Bonne Fête Nationale! 🇫🇷 Bonne Fête nationale! It’s July 14 and whether you know it formally as la Fête nationale, informally as le quatorze juillet, or simply as Bastille Day, it’s the

12/07/2024

Catch us around town! Delighted to be a community partner with Alliance Française Mpls/St Paul, MSP Film Society, and Bonjour Minnesota on KFAI Radio. In the next several days, we'll be introducing the film "Widow Clicquot" at the Lumières Françaises film festival (Sat., July 13, 7pm CDT); raffling a goodie basket at our table with Libby Pudwell Cecchi at the Alliance Françaises' Bastille Day festivities (Sun., July 14, 3–7pm CDT); and on Tues., July 16, 8–10pm CDT the guest on Bonjour Minnesota (90.3 FM in the Twin Cities)! Not in the Twin Cities area? Bonjour Minnesota can be streamed worldwide when it's live at https://www.kfai.org/ À très bientôt!

05/07/2024

Happy Fourth of July from Paris Off Script.

25/06/2024

And again I say, merci! Upcoming dates: February 18–22, 2025, April 14–18, 2025, November 4–8, 2025. Five people, first come, first served.