HEROINES ROMANTIQUE
On Monday we decided to walk to the nearby house of George Sands, the French writer who had to write under a man’s name to be accepted. The house and museum had been highly recommended so Susie by Leeann Brown and others. We looked at an exhibit of maybe 100 paintings of women as portrayed during the romantic period in art and music. And then we sat for a long time in the tea garden and drank Earl Grey tea and ate scones and felt very, very civilized. There were interesting people in the garden including a guy in fancy thigh high stockings.
And then we walked back slowly, stopping to sit in another cafe. We marveled at the gardens of Japanese maples on balconies, the colorful grocery stores on every corner, the merry-go-rounds that dot the city, and the very elegant shops selling every thing including very expensive bright Italian ice in the shapes of fruit. A little strawberry cost $4.
It was Election Day in France. We looked in at one polling place in a school where a young man was very earnestly making his case on TV and watched a man replace Macron posters which had been defaced by a La Pen voter. There were no long lines and otherwise the election didn’t seem to cause a stir. It was a quiet beautiful cool sunny day in Paris and ended with Macron winning and maintaining order in France.
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 