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Feeling rosy: Au Nom de la Rose florists

02 Wednesday Apr 2014

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In 1913 Gertrude Stein wrote the line of poetry “A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose”. In 1991, just a few blocks away (4, rue de Tournon) from her home off the Jardin du Luxembourg, Au Nom de la Rose made her words come to life.

Walk into a shop and you’re enveloped in Tango, Piaget, Papa Meilland scented roses. They use over twenty varieties, some from their own bushes in the Nimes region, others from one of the last garden rose producers in Hyeres and as far away as Ecuador and Kenya. The concept is theirs alone and they’re expanding their franchise all over Europe. Thankfully, you can order their fragrant products online or drop by one of your neighborhood shops for a truly rosariffic experience. Their small bouquets make the perfect gift for your dinner party hostess.

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47, bld Saint Germain, 5th arr
Tel: 01 40 51 02 02

4, rue de Tournon, 6th arr
Tel: 01 46 34 10 64

50, rue du Cherche Midi, 6th
Tel: 01 42 22 84 84

1, bld du Montparnasse, 6th
Fax: 01 40 56 02 03

46, rue du Bac, 7th
Tel: 01 42 22 22 12

51, rue Cler, 7th
Tel: 01 44 18 98 01

150, rue du faubourg Saint Antoine, 12th
Tel: 09 50 60 36 65

5, rue de Lourmel, 15th
Tel: 01 45 79 01 01

285, rue de Vaugirard, 15th
Tel: 01 48 42 22 22

81, rue Lecourbe, 15th
Tel: 01 53 86 92 30

7, avenue Mozart, 16th
Tel: 01 45 25 03 03

188, avenue de Versailles, 16th
Tel: 01 42 24 48 48

112, avenue Victor Hugo, 16th
Tel: 01 45 53 53 00

24, avenue Mac Mahon, 17th
Tel: 01 45 74 40 80

Finding the way in Paris? No Worries.

29 Saturday Dec 2012

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….1615. Its nearly 60 acres are adorned with a forest of leafy trees, some 80 statues, two fountains, tennis and boules courts, and the largest playground in Paris (French kids play loud and rough). The focus of this grand space is the Grand Bassin, a pond encircled by chairs, the surface of which normally floats a fleet of toy sailboats. Palais du Luxembourg, with its weighty Tuscan columns, lords over north end gardens. Designed by the queen in the style of the Pitti Palace of her native Florence, the building has housed the French Senate for two centuries. The palace became a Nazi headquarters during WWII.

From the fountain, curve right around the balustrade above the pond and continue through the park to exit on west side at Rue de Fleurus.

… This swing through the gardens to the west gate follows the path of Hemingway after his divorce from Hadley in 1926, when, drunk and tearful, he pushed her possessions in a wheelbarrow to her new residence at 35 rue de Fleurus. At #27 on the same street is the home of Gertrude Stein from 1903 to 1938. This is where Matisse met Picasso, and artists from all walks of life considered themselves lucky to come and enjoy the converstation and perhaps enjoy a hash brownie baked by Alice B. Toklas.”

For more, consult page 55 and 56 in your copy of Paris’s best new photographic guide, No Worrries Paris.