Saturday, September 27, 2014

This morning I went around the corner to the Café Sancerre which has become what the British call "my local". Here are photos of the café.

In the afternoon we went tour local park where they were celebrating the Fête des Jardins (Garden Festival) in Paris. Many of the public gardens and parks had special displays, exhibits, etc. In our garden, the Fall flowers were all out in splendor. There were also several tents where there were displays and information available. At one, children were offered small pots of plants or flowers and given instructions on how to plant and care for them. There were always two or three interested children there.

We spent an hour or so at Le Sancerre and then headed down the rue des Archives where we came to the National Archives building. They have a large garden and today there was an outdoor convention of genealogy. There were about 25 booths where all things genealogy could be researched and discussed. There were booths for each of the major regions of France where people could check out their ancestors. There were also booths where, for a fee, you could check out software for researching, publishing, and printing out you family history. There were quite a few people interested in these projects.

We left the Archives garden and went farther on down the street near the BHV to a block that has a lot of cafés and restaurants. We picked out one, Chez Vito, where we had some nice pasta for dinner.

After dinner we went to the Lutheran Church Eglise des Billettes only a block from the café. There was a choral concert there that we wanted to hear. The group was called Quid Novi. The music dealt with the era of Luther, early 16th century. We knew several of the pieces. We left after about an hour and a half since it was rather boring. There were some good pieces of music but much of it was interspersed with letters by Luther read by several actors. Too much lecture and not enough music. The chorus was adequate but not near the quality of the one that we had heard in the Swedish church a week ago.