Galignani and Angelina tarte citron

 

By now I should know when are the French jours de fériés/holidays. May is the month with the most holidays. The French jump for joy 🤸🏾‍♀️ Me: I go to the post office and cry😢

• Fête du Travail : samedi 1er mai 2021
• Fête de la Victoire de 1945 : samedi 8 mai 2021
• Jeudi de l'Ascension : jeudi 13 mai 2021
• Lundi de Pentecôte : lundi 24 mai 2021
• Last Saturday was such a holiday. Why is rue de Rivoli vide/empty. Not because of Covid. Everyone is in Deauville getting their toes wet
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  The rest are on the Ile Saint Louis eating les cornets/ice cream cones at Berthillon. 
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• I ventured out to see the cats at Place de la Concorde. 
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• Stopping at Tuileries to walk on the way, its impossible to pass side by side without going inside irresistible bookstore Galignani and Angelina tea salon. 
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• This airy bookshop is like NYC’s Rizzoli, specializing in the latest art, fashion, decor and foodie books in French/English. Its the place to be seen during fashion week. 
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• Bill Cunningham always stopped in to catch up. 
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• They can be annoyingly snobby at times. I wanted to see a pricey book on figurative watercolor artist Carmontelle. I did buy the book on the left. No matter. The salesman would barely let me see the title, for sanitary reasons of course. Turned out to be exactly what I did not want - black and white line engravings of the Monceau gardens published by Yale. 
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• Some of their English books you can buy up the street for less at WH Smith. Still its a fun space to browse and get inspo. Do NOT take pictures of book jackets to later check prices on Amazon. They don’t like that at all 🙁
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• Next door in spacious Angelina where Chanel took tea, it was completely vide/empty. Next week it will be jammed. They were not the least bit snobby FYI. 
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• Angelina’s Spring collection has arrived. They had the most unusual tarte citron with a faux lemon popped on top. Who could say non? Not me. Their classic Fraisier is an essential if you’re doing strawberry research.
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•  I knew Bear 🐻 would love the demitasse cup, especially when I heard it was only18€ not 80€ :)) 
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• He loved everything and so did I. The lemon tarte was positively airy and delicate. A combination of lemon and lime. 
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• By the time I got home the streets were full of ice cream eaters.
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  Thank you dear Amy for leaving the lovely review in my shop🤸🏾‍♀️
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• The Paris bookshops map is now available on Etsy for bookoholics. Happy Jeudi de l'Ascension  PBers. No poste, no bank 😳 📚🐻
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