Luxembourg Garden Scene
Photograph by Discover Paris!Scene
Traveling to Paris soon? Click here to learn about our “Black History in and around the Luxembourg Garden” walk: http://discoverparis.net/black-history-in-and-around-the-luxembourg-garden.
It’s one of our most popular walking tours!
Loretta Jefferson
Photograph by Discover Paris!
Loretta Jefferson joined me for our “Black History in and around the Luxembourg Garden” walk this morning. She came to Paris to see Toni Morrison’s “Bench by the Side of the Road,” located in the 20th arrondissement.
Are you coming to Paris soon? Click here to view our schedule: http://discoverparis.net/scheduled-walking-tours.
Luxembourg Palace Viewed from the Upper Terrace
Photograph by Discover Paris!
Traveling to #Paris soon? Click to view our schedule for our #BlackHistory in and around the #LuxembourgGarden walk: http://discoverparis.net/scheduled-walking-tours.
Monique Y. Wells Presenting
Our New Josephine Baker Walk
Photograph by www.DiscoverParis.net
We’re super excited about the CNN article that came out yesterday about African Americans in Paris. Entrée to Black Paris is featured in the third—and longest—section! In the article, you’ll find links to Southern Passion Lounge in Paris, Black Paris Profiles, and our newest Josephine Baker walk. Click on the embedded link above to “read all about it!”
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Monique Y. Wells’ Entrée to Black Paris blog is finally getting the recognition we believe it so richly deserves – it has been named one of 10 BEST Paris blogs by award-winning travel writer Mike Gerrard!
Gerrard is a full-time, award-winning author, blogger, and publisher. His numerous publications about Paris include the Top 10 Paris – Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide (DK Travel; penned with his wife, Donna Dailey), Colors of Paris (Thunder Bay Press), and Paris: A City Revealed (Metro Books). As a man who knows the city intimately, he recently made his selection of 10 best Paris blogs. We were thrilled to find our blog among them!
Here’s Mike’s description of Entrée to Black Paris:
What it is: Monique Y. Wells covers a fascinating niche subject – black history, culture and contemporary life in Paris.
Why we like it: Specialist passions make for some of the best blogs, and the relationship of Paris with its black population (for better or worse) provides some stimulating reading. Monique doesn’t just cover the well-documented ground of black writers, musicians and other artists in Paris’s past, like Chester Himes and Josephine Baker, but keeps it current by interviewing black chefs, lawyers and other prominent figures.
Find Mike’s entire list of 10 BEST Paris blogs on the Web site 101 Holidays.
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