Boulogne-Billancourt
Metro lines 9 or 10
Marseilles-based
Julien Lourau is a well-known French jazz/blues saxophonist whose group is named after the city in which they made their debut performance. After a period in electro jazz in the 90’s he has returned to more traditional jazz, respecting the fundamentals of a jazz quartet and composing, with talent and imagination, original, but totally accessible, tunes.
Find out more about him at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Lourau .
PAN has purchased a limited number of tickets at 15€ each.
Paris 18
The charcuterie Durand has won numerous gold medals and awards for its headcheese, chicken liver pâté, blood sausage, hams and salamis, which has contributed to its expanding reputation in its Montmartre neighborhood. Join us in discovering the behind-the-scenes story at the shop, as well as the kitchen where the catering and delicatessen specialties come to life. 7€ per person.
Paris 4
This is an authentic, old neighborhood bistro, located facing the Seine. You can take a look and get an idea of the menu at
http://www.letrumilou.fr/menu.html. Traditional French cuisine is in store, with a very reasonable 3-course menu – when we add the wine we can get by for 30€ each. . A congenial evening is guaranteed.
Marché Couvert des Batignolles - Paris 17
PAN member Patti Ravenscroft, founder and driving force behind Les Liaisons Délicieuses, has allowed us to meet up with some of her favored local fournisseurs. Caviste Alain Beunon and cheese specialist Pierre Girard will be combining forces to give us an introduction to delicious Italien cheeses, cured hams and salamis, along with the wines from the peninsula that compliment them best. Limited to 10 people, 15€ per person.
Cité de la Musique, Paris 19
Two-time Grammy-nominated jazz musician Dave Douglas is one of the most prolific and original trumpeter/composers of his generation. From his New York base, where he’s lived since the mid 1980s, Douglas has continued to earn lavish national and international acclaim including trumpeter, composer, and jazz “Artist of the Year”… In addition to himself on trumpet, his New Orleans-style Brass Ecstasy band is composed of Vincent Chancey (French horn), Luis Bonilla (trombone), Marcus Rojas (tuba), and Nasheet Waits (drums). PAN has pre-purchased a limited number of tickets at 20€ each.
Cinéma Gaumont Opéra
Paris 8
Written in 1828, Gioachino Rossini's opera Le Comte Ory, a comic opera in two acts, was his last farsa comica (comic opera). It is inspired by a medieval French legend set in 1200 in which knights end up seducing nuns. Some of the music originates from his opera "Il viaggio a Reims" written three years earlier for the coronation of Charles X. PAN has purchased a limited number of seats at 27€ for this new production filmed live in HD from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Paris 4
Our guests for this first PAN Writers Series get-together will be Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany Chevalier, translators of the acclaimed Knopf edition of De Beauvoir’s "The Second Sex", as well as many other accomplishments, in a brilliant professional partnership going back thirty years.
Paris 9
PAN member and professional guide, Patricia Rosen, will show us this rare example of the Consulaire style, a small hôtel particulier built in 1789-98 and only open to the public for groups. It was occupied by Fortunée Hamelin, born (like her friend the Empress Josephine) in Martinique, and notorious for parading topless down the Champs-Elysées. It was eventually taken over by Louis Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Napoleon's private secretary. The visit will be an hour to 1½ hours long, in English. 12€ for PAN members, 15€ for non-members (includes entrance fee of 5€).
Paris 6
In this year’s series of wine tastings by region, we have already been to Alsace and the Loire Valley – now it’s Burgundy’s turn. Monasteries in Medieval times played a key role in developing the Burgundy wine industry ; it has the highest number of AOCs of all the French wine regions, and is the most terroir-conscious. Our prized wine specialist comes from Le Musée du Vin in Paris. In English. 26€ per person.
