Baguettes–The French Bread Bat

Here is the problem you must surely always be having all the time. You are somewhere, yes? But you say, “Where am I? Am I in France or am I in the Congo?” How do you know which place?
Ho ho. Saint Just will tell you how to know. Look all over — look up and [...]

Chant Sous la Pluie

So many foolish people they stand up in the tour bus and I must shout to them, “Asseyez-vous!” It is so when silly silly people say to me, “M. Just, for what do you say the painting of M. Caillebotte is called ‘Chant Sous la Pluie?’ You are so false, so false! And look: that [...]

Dior He Has “The Look”

When M. Laurent was a petite ecolier — I do not mean the cookie; I mean the boy scholar — he learns what he know from the great Christian Dior. Later they fight, but for a while they are good friends.

M. Dior is the fine fellow who long ago invented “The Look.” Because after all [...]

Saint-Just et Voltaire vont au Château Blanc

Once again I would like so much to thank M. Rousseau for all the insight he has for Americaine politicks. Enough deep thinking, eh? Now we are back to good fun.
May I introduce my dear friend François-Marie Arouet. But he become so very angry when you call him with his girl names, so he likes [...]

The Eiffel Code

It is too much! All this talk of Da Vinci code this, Da Vinci code that! My blood is on boil! Leonardo, he is not the only one with a code. The magnifique Gustave Eiffel also give to us a secret code so we can be like Inspector Maigret and be sneaky little detectives. Ho [...]

Femme de Nègre avec de Poisson

Many young people — the Youth of Tomorrow! — ask me, “Monsieur Saint-Just, what are the women of France like? Are they black? Do they embrace the fish? Do they sit in the fountain? Tell us before we grow old and feeble.”
Oh, my little ones! It is only naturale to worry about growing old and [...]

Monette Monet, Woman-Painter

Ho ho! It seems I have touch on some nerves with my little hommage to Monette Monet. So many of you phone me on the telephone to ask, “Tell us more! Tell us more! Who is this Monette? Who is she? Tell us about this Woman-Painter, M. Bust!”
Well, “Okay!” Here is more for you to [...]

Rue de Jouffroy d’Abbans

We have arrived at the last to the most famous street in Paris. Of course you recognize at only once the scene of Gustave Caillebotte’s most famous painting Chant Sous la Pluie (1877).

The street shows this little plaque named for the honor of Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d’Abbans (1751–1832). Ah, but you do not know [...]

Liberté, Égalité, Éléphanité

Le Révolution! It is not what you understand to know. Out of the question! The history books, what they say to you, is it not so misinformed, eh? Why look, look with two of your own eyes:

Babar the Élèphant King is alive and well. See how he so courteously allows his Queen, Celeste, to ride [...]

Tour Eiffel

We will go now quickly on a little tour. A Tour de la Tour Eiffel! Ha ha!

There she is: so elegant and standing up in the center of Paris. You may go to the top in the elevator or if you prefer, you may gaze up! She is very old symbol of France that we [...]