Thanks Beatchick. This sounds really interesting. I've sent the info to my parents who will be in Paris in May (for their 56th Anniversary!).

OH, you're welcome, Grasshopper! Do you think your parents would go?

Please wish them a Happy 56th Anniversary for me, chica!

I just found out about Jim Haynes Sunday dinner parties and I am so disappointed because I am going to Paris on Monday 4/25 and leaving on Sunday, May 1st. Had I known sooner I would have made different travel plans.

Here's a description of a visit to Patricia Laplante-Collins - http://savvytraveler.publicradio.org.../feature.shtml (no mention of cost).

Note the quote from one of what sounds like the very few Europeans there - "here, in Patricia's house, it's like America"