How inspiring to pull a postcard from Paris, France - as I visited the City of Lights for the first time in 2014! I didn't get to this cafe, Cafe de la Paix, but did sit in a few outdoor cafes. This one is located in the Grand-Hotel de la Paix, and was opened in June, 1862 to serve hotel guests. It was declared a historic site by the French government in 1975. In many European cities the habit is to dine in one location and take coffee on a terrace in another.
Back on November 11, 1967 (the year of Expo in Canada) Margaret and Harvey were in Paris.
"This was a very interesting and moving experience - Nov 11 - in Paris! Mr. De Gaulle shared the memorial service with the people too."
Margaret doesn't mention that General Charles De Gaulle, the President of France, wasn't popular with everyone in Canada that year - although most Canadians likely knew who he was. Her remark about sharing with the people "too" may have been harking back to a diplomatic incident with General De Gaulle on a visit to Expo '67 in June of that year. From the balcony of Montreal's City Hall, he said, "Vive le Quebec libre." This diplomatic faux pas sparked outrage (the slogan was that of the Quebec independence movement) and resulted in cancellation of his visit.
The stamp features the chapel of Notre Dame Du Haut, a Roman Catholic pilgrimage chapel which was designated a historical monument in 1967.
The gorgeous watercolour impressionistic scene on the postcard is by Marius Girard, one of the world's most reproduced artists. In 1972 one of his postcards had been selling for more than 15 years. Online chats reveal that some tourists in the 50s, 60s and 70s bought artwork directly from Girard. Most of his work is available as lithograph prints. You can buy an unframed print of this scene for $28.76 online. I wonder if Girard was inspired by another famous painter of Parisian street scenes. Konstantin Korovin was a Russian impressionist painter, who painted "Cafe de la Paix" in 1905.
In the same year, and month, Miles Davis and his band, which included Herbie Hancock, was recording live jazz concerts, including one November 6th at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. The album included "I Fall in Love Too Easily", which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song from the Sinatra movie Anchors Aweigh.
Try listening to Miles Davis play the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK8JlTlhnjw
while looking at this postcard. Transporting......
Back on November 11, 1967 (the year of Expo in Canada) Margaret and Harvey were in Paris.
"This was a very interesting and moving experience - Nov 11 - in Paris! Mr. De Gaulle shared the memorial service with the people too."
Margaret doesn't mention that General Charles De Gaulle, the President of France, wasn't popular with everyone in Canada that year - although most Canadians likely knew who he was. Her remark about sharing with the people "too" may have been harking back to a diplomatic incident with General De Gaulle on a visit to Expo '67 in June of that year. From the balcony of Montreal's City Hall, he said, "Vive le Quebec libre." This diplomatic faux pas sparked outrage (the slogan was that of the Quebec independence movement) and resulted in cancellation of his visit.
The stamp features the chapel of Notre Dame Du Haut, a Roman Catholic pilgrimage chapel which was designated a historical monument in 1967.
The gorgeous watercolour impressionistic scene on the postcard is by Marius Girard, one of the world's most reproduced artists. In 1972 one of his postcards had been selling for more than 15 years. Online chats reveal that some tourists in the 50s, 60s and 70s bought artwork directly from Girard. Most of his work is available as lithograph prints. You can buy an unframed print of this scene for $28.76 online. I wonder if Girard was inspired by another famous painter of Parisian street scenes. Konstantin Korovin was a Russian impressionist painter, who painted "Cafe de la Paix" in 1905.
In the same year, and month, Miles Davis and his band, which included Herbie Hancock, was recording live jazz concerts, including one November 6th at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. The album included "I Fall in Love Too Easily", which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song from the Sinatra movie Anchors Aweigh.
Try listening to Miles Davis play the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK8JlTlhnjw
while looking at this postcard. Transporting......
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