No, PDP did not turn into Gawker Stalker overnight! However, when I took this photo I did not notice it on the spot, but once I saw it on the screen, it reminded me of a famous American female singer! Those of you who are attentive (and I know you are!) will have noticed that the chairs and the coffee cups already appeared on this blog... But no, the person I had coffee with was not that famous!
j'espere que tu l'a invité a prendre les mignardises parce que sinon...
ReplyDeletebon vendredi
christophe
Talk about scratch and sniff.....Haaaa!
ReplyDeleteI can see a resemblance but this lady looks much, much younger. She looks like she's wearing a lot of clothes, too. Is it still cold in Paris? :(
ReplyDeleteFor our US buddies learning French, here is a French proverb about the weather at that time of the year.
"En Avril, ne te découvre pas d'un fil.
En Mai, fais ce qu'il te plait!"
Of course I recognized those now famous chairs! But the lady, well she's in the way to being famous already,.. If only she looked at the cam.
ReplyDeletemidnitebara, I like your new picture!
ReplyDeletethank you!, tomate farcie!
ReplyDeleteEric, I find you a bit of a tease with this picture. It does look like her...
ReplyDeleteAs always.
The first thing I thought when I saw this shot was ... there are those chairs again! ;) I love them & the coffee cups - wish I was there now!
ReplyDeleteVery good, Eric! In that profile, it certainly looks like her.
ReplyDeleteBarbara Streinsand ? I love her Eric ! She is just so fantatistic !
ReplyDeleteC'est vrai que ce n'est pas une photo ordinaire...On aimerait savoir ce à quoi elle pense, elle a l'air si nostalgique. Mais on ne peut pas photographier les pensées (et c'est tant mieux !)
ReplyDelete"What is essential is invisible to the eye." (Saint Exupéry)
Hi Eric, of course we know the chair...so is that the same cafe for your first shot or do many cafes use these chairs?
ReplyDeleteGreat profile, whoever it was!!
ReplyDeleteNow if you can get a pic of Brad and Angelina...
LOL
This photo is so Parisien! Love it!
ReplyDeleteYes, and Tom Cruise will be on the Parvis de La Défense on the 25th. Try to do your best !!!
ReplyDeleteWell, you never know who you could run into in Paris. Maybe she actually was in Paris, who knows ;-). Nice shot!
ReplyDeleteWhen I take my 40 Scottish 12 year-olds to Paris in June, I think, rather than taking them to the Eiffel Tower, I shall bring them to la place des Vosges and show them these famous chairs! And if Barbara is there too, well, that would just be a bonus!
ReplyDeleteGreat atmosphere shot! Though I prefer the alas departed Barbara, the French singer. Any memories of her, from La salle des ventes, to Joyeux Noël, to...
ReplyDeleteDo the non-francophones on the blog know Barbara? La longue dame brune. (Also of Jewish origin, by the way, also with a dramatic profile - but a very different artist).
non lagatta, je ne la connais pas.
ReplyDeleteBarbara was an absolutely fantastic singer, Lagatta, I totally agree. Barbara Streisand always left me a bit cold, and she has always had too many of those self-centered Hollywood start qualities.
ReplyDeleteNow, at this very cafe on Place des Vosges, we had absolutely abysmal service this past spring (it was I and two colleagues), but we just had fun with it. Our waiter was actually very nice but hugely harried and somewhat incompetent.
hahhaha that nose!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteJust a quick global reply (I am pretty busy at the moment).
ReplyDeleteYes it is still cold! This lady was not sitting alone but with a friend. These are - let's say - pretty common chairs in high-end cafes. I will try my best to photograph Brad and Angelina but something tells me I must not be the only one trying to do so... (what will they be doing on the Parvis de la Defense GG ??).
I know that Barbra enjoys coming to Paris, when I was a student I use to be a chauffeur for an american lady from time to time and she use to go to the same taylor as Barbra - well so she told me!
Grant as a francophile you MUST immediatly rush to thenext record store and buy a Barbara album. We all love her (look at waht quality people say about her here!!).
hmm- my first thought was Cher, but she kind of looks like Babs as well.
ReplyDeleteEric, are you sure this woman wasn`t YOUR date?? :-)
ReplyDeletehumourist! xD
ReplyDeleteActually when I first saw this profile, I it looked very Gallic to me...I thought, here is Eric, showing us something very French again!
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It is a pity that Barbara (birthname Monique Serf) is not better known in the English-speaking world. She is well known in Germany, due to her famous song Göttingen, about postwar reconciliation. Espace musique (Radio-Canada 2) seems fond of Barbara and plays her a lot. You can listen to CBC/Radio Canada on the Internet. I mentioned the two songs I did because they refer to specific spots in Paris that could be photographed, but there are many more. With the info I gave you, it will be easy to Google Barbara/Monique Serf. I checked - there is information in English.
ReplyDeleteYes, those chairs are common, but as Eric says, in the more upscale cafés.
gg likes Tom Cruise?
ReplyDelete… among others… !
ReplyDeleteEric > I don't know exactly what will be the occasion in La Defense. A good opportunity for you to give a call to you-know-who !!!
;o)