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.

Reblogged: Versailles A Private Tour

Posted on September 24, 2012 by thetravelingpear

Want to experience the Hidden Versailles? here’s a peek on how its done. Versailles: A Private Tour by Marie Z. Johnston More than 70 million people visit Paris each year. That’s a lot of people. Of that, only 3 million venture out to the Chateau of Versailles (one million in July alone!) making the odds of sharing […]

Paris…going beyond the Périphérique

Posted on May 1, 2012 by thetravelingpear

This trip to France was much different than those before. No longer was I a tourist aimed at seeing everything set forth on a mile long itinerary. I was a girl coming back to a city that held treasured memories of adventures, places, friends and good times of a life I experienced there with my Chef. For […]

Shepherdess at heart

Posted on January 8, 2012 by thetravelingpear

Ever since I discovered my inner 18th century French princess—mind you–a princess who lives on a rather large country estate. I’ve been drawn to the idea of what life in the country, surrounded by rolling hills of green, spattered with flocks of sheep might have been like. Maybe like this painting by Sonya Chasey? Of course […]