If you had three hours of free time in Paris, and someone offered to take you on your dream tour, what would it be ? None of the usual – you can find the Arc de Triomphe and the Tour Eiffel on your own. What I have in mind is something a little more unusual, or more in depth. It could involve a celebrated figure, living or not, perhaps someone in literature or the arts, or a period in history, or a special interest of your own. (The only constraint is that it is legal.) There are no limits to dreams.

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Not three hours but to have an apartment for my visits when I feel like it.

Rue Claire Street. Lots of specialty markets-cafes. (not sure of spelling)

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Good grief...fasten your seat belts. Here we go again!!!

Larry J

Well, we can pretty safely assume that Anthony's asleep on the other side of the pond...and hope it's gone before he wakes up tomorrow.

I think I'd check into the Ritz with Angelina Jolie.

I'm with cigalechanta. when I saw the title of your thread, that's what I thought of!

Actually, my dream is to not need a paycheck anymore so I can live in said apartment part-time.

Ditto on the apartment,specifically located in the marais.

How about a dream afternoon in the fanciest couture and jewelery houses? Maybe Coco Chanel for my guide... we'll sip champagne while all the best fashions are modeled for us. We'll try on diamonds, and be chauffered from couture house to couture house. I'll have lots of money to spend, too!

To have a glass of wine and chat w/Camille Claudel or Matisse...

I was thinking Ritz too, Pausanias. Angelina would be an interesting twist.

Frankly (and sort of drunkly) I would go to the flower shop down the street from my cousin's flat and ask the guy behind the counter to go out on a date. He was so sweet, so nice, and guarenteed to show up with flowers. And on the perfect date he would take me out to a coffee, then on a long walk through his childhood neighborhood.

Do it. Go ahead and do it! You caught the bouquet!

I guess my title was a little misleading (but it was late). You can stay as long as you like, ideally in that apartment in the Marais.

Assuming you already there, if someone offered to take you anywhere, during a three-hour period, what would you like to do?

djf, remember, you have three hours. What would you do on rue Cler? Anything you would like to see there that you couldn't find on your own?

Pausanias, tuscanlifeedit, mvor, starsville and laclaire are on the right track. Let your fantasies run wild!

Baron Haussman guiding me, when walking with him the boulevards he built, and giving me a first hand explanation on the dessin royal he realized.

Wonder if I should choose Frederic Chopin and George Sand, or Marie and Pierre Curie, or Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, or Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein, or . . . ?

My Parisian mother died 15 years ago. My dream would be to meet her at her favorite cafe in her old neighborhood and tell her all about her grandson and great grandson. I miss her.

I would just go wandering through the Marais stopping every hour for coffee and a patisserie.

bhi -

Your response touched me. I lost my mother in January. I guess we never really stop missing those we love. Whenever I walk down rue de Castiglione toward the Tuileries, I remember coming to Paris for the first time with my parents when I was 4 years old.

Have you taken your son and your grandson to your mother's neighborhood and talked to them about her?

Bonne courage.