Paris Alumnae/i Network

Paris 1

Traditional Thanksgiving dinner at Joe Allen’s restaurant (30 rue Pierre Lescaut, 75001 Paris – metro Etienne Marcel, line 4). This is a very popular PAN event and the dinner includes cocktail, wine, and coffee for 45 euros. There are only 20 seats – first come first serve. Reservation and payment must be made in advance. This event is always “sold out” – so be sure to reserve early.

Paris 4eme

Come join other PAN members for dinner in a beautiful Marais restaurant that serves a creative cuisine in a beautiful ambiance.> Where? La Tête Ailleurs (20 Rue Beautreillis, near St. Paul in the 4eme - very nice old interior, 16-18 euro main dishes). (Métro St. Paul, bus 29, 69, 76, 96)

St Michel Fountain
Paris 5/6

PAN member Tom Grille has meticulously organised this 2 hour walk crisscrossing 13 bridges in Paris, each with its own story. Following the walk there will be a viewing, over tea in a warm and cozy setting, of the 1954 classic film “Sabrina,” in which many of these bridges star (in addition to Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart). 10€ for PAN members, 12€ for non-members.

Quarter Finals
Paris Bercy

November is the perfect time for indoor tennis, well established in Paris at the Palais Omnisports at Bercy, which provides the ideal venue for the yearly French Masters Tennis Championship, the best that this version of the sport has to offer. PAN has pre-purchased a limited number of tickets, up high but at center court, for the quarter finals at 19€ each.

Salle Pleyel

The Blind Boys of Alabama, known for their contagious Gospel spirit, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, recognised as New Orleans’ musical soul, meet “Down by the Riverside” at the Bayou, otherwise known in Paris as the Salle Pleyel. PAN has pre-purchased a limited number of tickets to this exceptional concert at 38€ each.

Cité de la Musique
Les Arts Florissants will be under the direction of Jonathan Cohen and featuring Laura Claycomb, soprano, and Kristian Bezuidenhout, piano-forte.

Gluck (Extracts from Paride ed Elena and from Orphée), Mozart (Concerto for piano #18 and Arias for soprano and orchestra), and Haydn (Symphony #80).

PAN has pre-purchased a limited number of tickets at 24€ each.

Through the Armainvilliers Forest to Tournan-en-Brie

This time we'll head East, catching the RER E, direction Tournan, at 9h49 from the Haussmann St Lazare station (a new station which is at 22 rue Jonbert, near St Lazare, and which you can get to on metro lines 12,13, 3 and 9). We get off the train at Ozoir-la-Ferrière, arriving there at 10h28. We'll meet up either at the Haussmann St Lazare station in front of the third to last train car or at the station in Ozoir-la-Ferrière on our arrival there. After crossing the farming village of Favières, we set off into the forest and later come out into fields, ending up in the fortified town of Tournan. Trains from Tournan back to Paris leave every half an hour and take 40 minutes.

This hike is 18 kms long and should take us about 5 1/2 hours, counting lunch and rests, so that we should arrive back in Paris at about 5 pm.

Paris 07

Come along to our annual party dedicated to a time for new and old members to meet. Mix, mingle, eat, drink and get to know members you’ve never met or never really had the chance to talk to. Old members bring along the food, pot luck style (that favorite recipe?), and the new members bring a bottle of wine, etc (that favorite vineyard?). All members are invited, but space is limited and signing up is definitely required. Please do not plan to attend without registering first.