{"id":1836,"date":"2011-09-06T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2011-09-06T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T16:00:09","slug":"pas-de-sketch-du-jour-june-5-1980-shopping-for-my-pledge-daughter-my-parents-sister-and-boyfriend-and-little-things-for-friends-in-that-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/2011\/09\/pas-de-sketch-du-jour-june-5-1980-shopping-for-my-pledge-daughter-my-parents-sister-and-boyfriend-and-little-things-for-friends-in-that-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Pas de sketch du jour: June 5, 1980. Shopping for my pledge daughter, my parents, sister, and boyfriend and “little things for friends.” in that order."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paula's research shopping path to le Bon March\u00e9. 22 rue de S\u00e8vres, Rive gauche, Paris.<\/p><\/div>\n

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June 5, 1980<\/strong><\/p>\n

Woke at 10:00- ran (4 miles) to Jardins du Luxembourg. \u00a0Very good place to run as recommended by man at desk at Hotel Cayr\u00e9. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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H\u00f4tel et Jardins du Luxembourg<\/p><\/div>\n

Shopped after. Bon March\u00e9. I didn’t leave for 2 hours. Cute bathing suit and cute long shorts, but I didn’t buy anything.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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le Bon March\u00e9, 24 rue de S\u00e8vres. Left Bank, Paris.<\/p><\/div>\n

[Bon March\u00e9 is a department store in Paris that was founded in 1838 as a small shop and became a fixed-price store in 1850. The successful business built a new store constructed by Louis Auguste Boileau in 1867. Louis Boileau, his son, continued the store in the 1870s. He consulted with Gustave Eiffel for the structure. Louis Hippolyte-Boileau,\u00a0the grandson, worked on an extension to the store in the 1920s.].<\/p>\n

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Dome au bon march\u00e9, int\u00e9rieur du magasin.<\/p><\/div>\n

Want to get a French navy shirt<\/strong> for Ed<\/em> (Robb Edmonds, boyfriend #2 from high school\/KU summer ’80. He was interning for Kassebaum in Washington, D.C.) but I can’t find it here!! Did find a braided bag leather bag for mom which is a possibility. Gina?? Dad?!? \u00a0Possibly a bicycling shirt, but I don’t know!<\/em><\/p>\n

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French sailor shirt, immortalized by Picasso.<\/p><\/div>\n

[I have no clue what that meant, I have no recollection that anyone in my family bicycled to point of having a special shirt, but maybe it was a Tour de France shirt? We bicycled for transportation in Graves family].<\/p>\n

Lunch: \u00a0chef salade in a caf\u00e9 un boul St.-Germain (20F-$5.00). I have to quit spending so much money on food!!<\/em><\/p>\n

[See the priorities, here…not worried about money for gifts, but concerned about eating out. Seeing that I was in a hotel that only served breakfast, I don’t know what choice I had, but later in summer I started to pick up food at the charcuterie down the street though I did not like having food in my hotel room.]\n

Took m\u00e9tro to Tuileries to take pictures of little boys with boats. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Three men approached me on walk from Tuileries to Grand Palais!! I could have caf\u00e9 cr\u00e9e libre (I think this is decaf coffee with cream) all day long. They are<\/em>\u00a0always<\/em><\/p>\n

[back to the men, detecting diagnosis of possible ADD tendencies not yet unidentified for another 32 years]\n

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  1. old (over 30 at least).<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. dark<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. and have bad teeth.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    That must be the type that looks for American Girls in the Tuileries<\/strong>. I asked one man his age-he guessed that I was 18! :(.<\/em><\/div>\n
    One absolutely<\/span> changed directions to follow me. \u00a0It was really sort of annoying after the 2nd<\/span> time.<\/em> [See how easily flattered I am with male attention, even substandard?] I am going to start saying I am married.<\/em><\/div>\n
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    Point d'embarcation pour les Bateaux-Mouches. Paris.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

    Sketched (see earlier blog post Le Grand Palais).<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0It is so neat!! I love it. \u00a0I had to sit on a bridge (the one right over where one takes the bateau mouche) and I could feel tremors!! Finished about 7:00 and arrived home at 7:30. \u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n
    Ate dinner at “Le Jardin” -sort of a French Health Food restaurant<\/em>\u00a0[???? I think pat\u00e9, rich cheeses, butter, cream and wine for those who partake in the quantities perscribed in France are all proving to be pretty healthy when cutting out the gauloises]. Very elegant and pretty, but “laid-back.” Group seems to hang out there, piano player. I wouldn’t really suggest it unless you were a vegetarian<\/em> [God forbid in Franch in 1980 or now!], but it was interesting. The chef came out and took my $ for the dinner and asked me what I was doing this summer in Paris, did I like it, etc. The people are so<\/span> nice. I think when I do stuff alone, I speak a little French, and people feel more comfortable about talking to you and are so helpful<\/span>. He told me to be sure & come back before I leae, especially for the th\u00e9 in the afternoon. \u00a0They “had very good things for tea” he said en fran\u00e7ais.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n
    Well, I’m going to needlepoint maintenant. Au Revoir!\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n

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