Let’s Go to Paris Repost from Important to Madeleine Blog

Posted on January 5, 2013 by thetravelingpear

Thank you to “Important to Madeleine” blog, another 18th-century French history chaser, for this lovely post! I’ve finally found someone who is as interested in French history as I! She doesn’t just have an interest, she has a Master’s in European History to back it up. Meeting Elissa (online, no less) is a prime example […]

219 Years Ago: A Queen Remembered

Posted on October 16, 2012 by thetravelingpear

Remembering Antoinette today…Continue on to the blog that follows…it’s more cheerful than what this post would have been.

Nature’s Confetti Today in History

Posted on October 11, 2012 by thetravelingpear

Arriving home today I was greeted with a lovely mess of confetti on our front porch…not your regular confetti, oh no…nature’s confetti. It’s the best kind. Leaves of gold, yellow, orange and red littered my doorstep. When I looked around the corner, there all perfectly strewn about the yard was again more of nature’s lovely […]

Paris and her medieval latrines…a stroll with the Pear a year ago today.

Posted on August 3, 2012 by thetravelingpear

Like most of our Paris adventures this one started out kind of silly– Moi to the Chef: ” So how about we go find Paris’ oldest toilets today?” If only one could have seen the expression on my Chef’s face at this suggestion—priceless–almost like I had asked him play 18th century dress-up (something he secretly […]

Remembering Paris…Remembering Basilique Saint-Denis

Posted on June 25, 2012 by thetravelingpear

What happens when one half of the *Pear* goes to work and the other gets bored with no history books around? (they are in transport somewhere between Maine and Texas) They (moi) start dreaming about, none other than *Paris* like that’s a shocker…then dreaming turns into finding something constructive to do…ah..read about French history, add […]