Comments | juicyjanna: I have a macaron problem

juicyjanna

I have a macaron problem

Apr 14, 2007 19:15

OK, so I went to Paris. I went to Paris in April. And now I'm back home, in the good old US of A, ruminating on the fact that I am not in Paris. It's true that once you've breathed the air there, the rest of the world, even Manhattan, is completely ruined. It saps your will to live. You just gaze up at the urban skyscape, thinking, I should be in a ( Read more... )

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estellacat April 14 2007, 23:39:26 UTC

Lolotte : Ladurée n'a point inventé les macarons ; c'était quelques anciennes religieuses qui l'ont fait, en 1792.

juicyjanna April 14 2007, 23:53:47 UTC

I had heard that. But they didn't sell them to the public, yet, did they? I think Laduree takes credit for first making them available. Although, seriously, being a nun would suck slightly less with macarons.

estellacat April 15 2007, 00:23:37 UTC

Well, you did compare eating them to God, didn't you? XD

adaptor April 17 2007, 06:47:41 UTC

I'm glad one of us got to go! It sounds like you had a great time!

Work? Or pleasure?

juicyjanna April 17 2007, 17:03:14 UTC

Pleasure, if abbreviated pleasure. We got to go mainly because Air France screwed up my parents' flight back to California last year, and compensated by giving them free tickets. I begged not to be left behind, and my father kindly agreed. It was lots of frenzied rushing around. I kept having this fatalistic feeling that I would never see the city again, so I tried to cram in every last important thing. I found myself at the Friends of the Paris Commune, bemoaning its seemingly random closure, and at Pere Lachaise, and Versailles, and Nicolas Flamel's house (it dates back to 1407 and is the oldest extant private house in Paris) and the gardens of Versailles, and seven museums. In six days. I also spent every cent I possessed, in an attempt to get an internship ready wardrobe, since I'm in the middle of interviewing now.

I do hope you can go soon! It would be wonderful to meet up in Montparnasse and drink ourselves silly while reminiscing...

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I can'tluck anonymous July 9 2007, 18:05:56 UTC

Hi

I can't be bothered with anything these days, but shrug. I just don't have anything to say recently.

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