Un Croissant au Beurre S’il Vous Plait!!
A year of pandemic life has meant the need for little moments of joy and escape. For me, I’ve found it in flaky, buttery croissants and dreaming of Paris. I love everything about Paris—the cafes, the food, the rudeness, the cigarettes, the fashion, ALL.OF.IT. In the depths of crippling postpartum depression, I would lay in bed and think about jetting off to the city of love and sharing a croissant with Emmett. We would be wearing matching striped shirts, obviously. Perhaps it’s cliche but if loving Paris makes me basic then pop a beret on my head and call me a basique bitch all you want. J’adore Paris forever.
I’ve rounded up a few of my favourite ways to escape to Paris (while staying safely at home in Vancouver on my couch, for now). Ok, so:
Movies / Shows
Midnight in Paris
Sex and the City (ep. 7/8 of the final season with Petrovsky)
Emily in Paris (when is season 2 coming?!)
Something’s Gotta Give
Before Sunset
The Devil Wears Prada
Julie & Julia
Paris;this April sunset completely utters
utters serenely silently a cathedral
before whose upward lean magnificent face
the streets turn young with rain,
spiral acres of bloated rose
coiled within cobalt miles of sky
yield to and heed
the mauve
of twilight(who slenderly descends,
daintily carrying in her eyes the dangerous first stars)
people move love hurry in a gently
arriving gloom and
see!(the new moon
fills abruptly with sudden silver
these torn pockets of lame and begging colour)while
there and here the lithe indolent prostitute
Night,argues
with certain houses
-ee cummings
Books
A Moveable Feast- Ernest Hemingway
The Paris Wife- Paula McLean
Bringing up Bebe (this is a parenting book but it inspired me to be a chic, chill French mama)- Pamela Druckerman
The Emperor of Paris- C.S. Richardson
Musique