Article: Falling in love again If you're looking for a new way to enjoy the French capital, check into a chic b & b, says Natalie Walsh

Article: Paris mayor rules out a bid by French capital for ...
AP Worldstream;  July 12, 2005 ;     640 words ... ... it's unlikely the 2016 games will be held in Europe. The French capital's 54-50 defeat to London in the final round of last Wednesday ... evil,' the three little monkeys," Douillet said. Runner Marie-Jose Perec, winner of three Olympic golds, said in an ...

Article: Travel: Falling in love again; From school trips to romantic ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  August 2, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... those journeys I couldn't help but fall in love with the French capital and all it had to offer. While others complained about the ... Revolution, it was home to the infamous guillotine. Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Danton and Robespierre were among the 1,200 ...

Article: Christmas shopping special: Parisian haunts to inspire discerning ...
The Independent on Sunday;  November 7, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... 50; www.artisanparfumeur.com). 5 Marie Mercie The grande dame of the hat industry ... velvet, straw and sisal, each season Marie organises small exhibitions in her shop ... displayed on dummies rescued from a theatre. Marie Mercie, 23 rue Saint-Sulpice, 75006 ...

Article: Choir's show in French capital
South Wales Evening Post;  March 4, 2009 ;     234 words ...Wales may have played rugby in Paris last weekend, but now a Swansea choir will perform there. The Gwalia Singers will be in action at Disneyland Paris's Welsh Festival Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, wearing daffodils in support of Marie Curie Cancer Care.

Article: A PICTURE OF PARIS They say the French capital ...
The Independent on Sunday;  August 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... ghosts. You can't walk across the Place de la Concorde without seeing Jacques-Louis David, pencil in venal hand, sketching Marie-Antoinette on her way to the scaffold. Flee him into the nearby park and you'll find Manet's Music in the Tuileries Gardens ...

Article: Paris is for lovers . . . and rioters Behind the French ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  October 27, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... executed, at least one spectator ate parts of his body. The tradition was carried on in 1789, when the market-women chasing Marie Antoinette through the corridors of Versailles screamed that they would fry her liver and fricassee her kidneys. While the ...

Article: Paris on [pounds sterling]30 a day... Giles Milton finds a tight ...
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  April 5, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... reconstruction of the grim prison room where King Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, were held before their execution. The mementoes are poignant: locks of Marie Antoinette's wispy hair; schoolbooks belonging to the young dauphin ...