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One of the preliminary difficulties of studying French is understanding the logic of the language. For instance the order of certain words in French is the opposite of word order in English.
Norm Goldman, Editor of Sketchandtravel and Bookpleasures is excited to have as a guest, world- wide Paris expert, Thirza Vallois. Thirza is the author of the 3 volumes of “Around and About Paris”, and a different great book,” Romantic Paris”.
She contributes to tv and radio and has appeared on PBS, BBC, The Travel Channel, Discovery, CNN, The French Cultural Channel, among others.
She is the author of Three Perfect Days in Paris, aired as a film on all United Airlines international flights and on television all through the world. The article has won her the 1st award of NATJA (the North American Travel Journalists’ Association).
Thirza has also contributed the Paris entry of the newest edition of The Encarta Encyclopaedia.
During the past quite a few years she has devoted very much of her time to exploring and studying this region of France. She is now completing a new book on this final hidden area of France, to be published in 2006.
Thirza has also informed me that she has been travelling extensively in the USA, in particular to California, about which she has written a few articles, with extra to follow
Today, Thirza is going to be discussing with us why Paris is so romantic?
Good day Thirza and thank you for accepting to be interviewed by sketchandtravel.com and bookpleasures.com.
You know that in French most adjectives come following the noun. So, we have:
Norm:
Thirza, could you inform us some thing about yourself, how you began as a travel author and writer, how several travel books have your written, and why have you chosen to write about Paris?
Thirza:
une voiture chère ‘an pricey car’
My exposure consequently began at a very young age, as did my appreciate for writing, by means of which I expressed myself the way a single does by means of painting, singing, playing an instrument, dancing…. I in no way intended to turn out to be a writer, it was just portion of me.
Being a savvy traveller, it upset me to see how most visitors to Paris (and any other place), do it the wrong way, utilizing directory-like guidebooks that make them go via all of the endless lists of touristy “musts”, instead of point them to the “real” place, which will be the city itself.
un ordinateur puissant ‘a effective computer’
Paris has changed significantly since, but in those days it was an exasperating place, inhabited by quite tricky people, to say the least, and my feelings for it were far from the phony “I love Paris in the spring time” image postcard cultivated by Hollywood. It was really a adore and hate passion, and I necessary to understand my personal heart, which could only happen by way of understanding the city.
You probably know that sure adjectives for example grand, bon, petit, beau, nouveau; ordinals (premier, deuxième, etc.) and possessive adjectives (mon, ma, son, ses, etc.) often come just before the noun.
un bon vin ‘a superior wine’
It will be the combination of the above that gave birth to my 3-volume series, “Around and About Paris”. As for “Romantic Paris”, it was their natural extension in a way. Once I offered my reader with all the meaty stuff, it was time to relax, delight in and feast, and who does it much better than lovers? It was a book written for lovers, past, present, and future, for whom Paris, more than any other city I can assume of, has been developed by the gods. This also answers your other question. I’ve so far written 4 books on Paris.
Certain adjectives are employed in either position:
Norm:
Can you clarify to our audience why Paris is amongst the top romantic
venues in the world?
la prochaine station ‘the subsequent stop’
Thirza:
mon cher ami ‘my dear friend’
une voiture chère ‘an pricey car’
And often there is often a nuance of meaning if the adjective is before or right after the word. For example:
The answer I give is usually the same, and very best resumed in the introduction to “Romantic Paris”. Rather than paraphrase, let me quote straight from my book:
“For decades I attempted to determine why Paris is shrouded in such mystique. After all, medieval Paris was a dark den of filth, reeking with nauseous stench, and also the two sinister prison fortresses that jutted out of its skyline could hardly have been conducive to romance. Not to mention the 32 rotting corpses dangling inside the offing when the royal gallows was put to use to full capacity. Yet the myth has been perpetuated for a good thousand years.
I racked my brains, I dug into the past, I travelled into my personal psyche looking for an answer, but I came back empty-handed. There simply is no answer. There lies the beauty of the enigma.
Norm:
If you had to choose six exceptional romantic venues in Paris, where would they be and why?
Thirza:
Very tough question, and it sometimes is dependent upon the season or time of day or night, simply because “romantic” implies seclusion.
*Place Dauphine, on the western side of Ile de la Cité, also preferably after dark.
*Buttes Chaumont, which has all the ingredients of a Brahms symphony that would have appealed to the likes of Lord Byron: a grotto, a dramatic waterfall, a lake with weeping willows, sheer cliffs topped by a Temple de l’Amour-what greater place for a lovers’ kiss with eastern Paris spread like a carpet at your feet!
un grand homme ‘a wonderful man’
* Montmartre, in particular on the little frequented side streets, once more in the early hours of the morning, or after dark.
Norm:
Could you describe to our audience six exceptional wedding venues in Paris to celebrate a marriage, and clarify why you’d contemplate these venues to be most unique?
Thirza:
You can combine adjectives in both locations, as in:
*Without any shadow of doubt, my 1st selection would go to a cruise boat on the river Seine. These come in various categories and different cost ranges, my favourite fleet being “Les Yachts de Paris”. Make an effort to prolong your festivities into the night so as to like the splendour of the floodlighting.
un nouveau petit ordinateur puissant ‘a new tiny effective computer’
ma nouvelle voiture blanche ‘my new white car’
Les Yachts de Paris
English effortlessly makes use of nouns in a way that resembles adjectives. For example, we are able to say ‘an office tower’ or ‘a DVD drive’. In French, again, you have to consider back to front for word order. But there is often a key complication. French uses the preposition de normally to imply the contents or origin. Here are some examples:
10, quai Henri IV, 75004
une boîte de chaussures ‘a box of shoes’
une tour de bureaux ‘a tower of offices’
If I have been to hire one of them (or just part of one) for my wedding, I would probably go for the Jacquemart-André Museum, mainly because as the one-time dwelling of the renowned art collectors Edouard André and Nélie Jacquemart, it has a private feel,to a particular extent, despite its palatial glamour, which makes it an ideal venue for a wedding occasion. The couple’s fabulous art collection is on permanent display on the magnificent premises of the museum.
Musée Jacquemart-André
un carnet de chèques ‘a check book’
une voiture de luxe ‘a luxury car’
Bois de Boulogne
Route de Suresnes, 75016
Tel 01 44 14 41 14
*If you wish to have it countrified whilst staying in central Paris, you can go for the discreet magnificence of the peach-coloured Laurent, in the lower gardens of the Champs-Elysées, and nonetheless take pleasure in the leafy surroundings of one of the city’s most prestigious neighbourhoods (the presidential residence is across the street). Make confident to hire a dining room that comes having a terrace.
41, avenue Gabriel, 75008
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