Some interesting places in Nantes and Paris from Barbara Jarczak

Image of tomb in Père-Lachaise cemetary.




I am living in a very nice place in Nantes, la Butte Sainte-Anne, near the Loire, with lots of rocks. It is a nice place to visit, really a village where everybody knows everybody and there is also the Jules Verne museum, for people interested by his work. In the Dix (10 place des Garennes), a Maison des associations, a very nice American woman, Sabine Moore is giving english lessons to kids, in fact drawing lessons with learning english words. She also give english lessons to adults and is selling for a small price the beautiful albums realised by her pupils.

For your English friends who would like to visit something else in Paris than the Tour Eiffel, I would like to suggest some places very interesting to see:
- The *rue Daguerre* and area, near Montparnasse, a beautiful street with nice people and shops, belonging to the old Paris, where Agnès Varda, a famous french cineast is living. In this area you can see also an hotel where Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir have been living, with a marmer sheet of them; very near, the *cimetière du Montparnasse* where they are buried.

- Talking about cimeteries, the *Père-Lachaise* is really beautiful and you can get a plan at the entrance, where is everybody, or you can make a guided visit in a little open car. Jim Morrison is buried there, visited by lots of people and also (between thousands of famous people), Serge Gainsbourg, whose grave is always full of young people smoking and drinking.

- The parks: *Luxembourg*, with at the entrance the *café Rostand* (just on the corner of the rue Médicis), expensive like all the cafés in the Quartier Latin, but with nice food and sandwiches; the *parc des Batignolles*, beautiful also.

- The *Ile Saint-Louis*, a very nice place, quiet and small, with beautiful embankments.

- The *Place Saint-Sulpice,* where Catherine Deneuve is living, with a nice old fashion café and in the streets around, a lot of shops with clothes for nuns and priests: Régine Deforges, a French writer is buying her panties there.....

Well, these can be already some ideas. There is also a beautiful collection of books for walkers: l*e Guide du promeneur (*Parisgramme), each about an area (arrondissement) of Paris, with interesting walkings and stories about the streets of Paris.

Thanks for all of these suggestions Barbara, Paris is beautiful, but so big too, so it's great to have some places to point us all in the right direction..