Paris: The Arab World Institute

A walk around the Arab World Institute


The AWI is located on Rue des Fossés Saint Bernard in Paris.


Lights






Can I ask more?

Isn't she lovely?

Let me introduce you Capucine the cat My English Patient adopted some days ago.
Isn't she cute?

A Year In The Merde

Working in a rather English speaking universe I was many times tempted to read this "bijou" which has been a best seller.
A credit card at WH Smith later I'm ready to have fun.
I decently can't refuse France via the eyes of Paul West, a British 28 year old man who comes to work in my country for one year.

The book is cleverly built; month after month we follow this character facing the French business world, the French women, the food and the French people in general.

In the first pages: I can't stop laughing. Our English accent is brilliantly transcribed. But very quickly alas it falls more into the stereotypes than in a social painting.
Our administration, the ineffective work methods, the cruel Parisians,the strikers our ridiculous peasants, the French women...
"No Mr Stephen Clarke the French women are not (all) hot pussies waiting (wearing jarretelles) to be daily fucked (or several times/day) in their office or in their favorite pub".
Lucky you Paul West who've met a lot of French nymphomaniacs girls!

I agree: this quasi exotic attraction between the « frogs » and the British exists (and I know what I speaking about) but the book doesn't describe it in a fine way.
Far from being clever, the author's mistaken. He shows France as all the world sees it (Shit, a béret, a baguette and hot girls). What a pity! It could have been a really great book.

So, not the book of the year alas.
I keep: an easy reading, a very attractive title and some witty remarks about the French people.
Did I ask for more?

Daddy's girls

Another nice litho from Aslan to my father.
Isn't she sexy?

A treasure

Yesterday I opened the treasure box and found some drawings Aslan did for my father in the 70'S. Alain Aslan's well known for his pin up.

Note that the muse's the drawer's wife. What a woman!
And look at the dedication, it says:"To my friend Jean Claude"!
I'm so proud :D


Quotation
"I paint and sculpt "woman" the most beautiful subject ever given to artists, because it is inexhaustible and eternal."
Aslan

Versailles: The Potager du Roi

Yesterday My English Patient & I visited the Potager du roi in Versailles.
Have a look!

Question of the day

What does Nature say to us?

Any idea?
:D