Parisians & their chiens, The Real Emily in Paris

Today’s post was supposed to be on Art Paris vernissage at Grand Palais Ephemeral yesterday (on from April 4 - 7). The cutout Bichon Frisé is by Tursic & Mille. Woman with purse pets by Yunzo Paek.

But I couldn’t resist showing you Paris chiens/dogs from this week. Seen at the new Pompidou BRANCUSI Retrospective. Evidently Bichons Frisé are IN.

Couldn’t resist following the therapy dog 🐶 

Is this a Bichon at Naturalia, my health food store? Who knew Bichons were originally Spanish, introduced by Spanish seamen, used as sailing dogs and as herding dogs. The French developed them into gentle lap dogs.

Definitely not a Bichon at my hairdresser on Tuesday

This fuzzy purse pet is what? You tell me.

I met him at Cafe Judy on 18, rue de Fleurus.

Where I met up with The Real Emily in Paris. Do you follow her fab blog on Substack?

We’ve been trying to meet for 2-3 years. It felt like meeting an old friend. 

You could say we have nothing in common. 

Emily is Australian, tall, married to a French with 3 children, has cooking classes in her house and leads Paris tours. How does she do it?

Emily just wrote an adorable children’s book, The Parisian ABCs, which Emily mails 📮 to you from Paris. Her darling pup Noisette 🌰 

We walked through Luxembourg gardens. Emily was on her way to pick up her kids. Clearly bright colored coats 🧥 are IN.

A Peek seen in the Metro yesterday

Watch this 2 minute adorable French video (with Eng. subtitles) on how mad the French are for their pets.

Must not leave out the divine Bonnard and his chien à table.

I just painted Dash for Lisa. Is he a Prince Edward or is that an island?

 

Voila. How’d I do?

I paint custom pet portraits including 🐇 & 🦆

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