- Imagination makes Paris even more fascinating
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•Brochure: for Pdf, please CLICK
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- We help you understand what you discover (as opposed to inflicting usually meaningless data)
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- Enlightened history lies behind our walks and visits. It brings order out of chaos and
one can't understand France without it.
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- As well – we emphasize the exceptional yet little known
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- We can open doors that are inaccessible to outsiders ...
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- ... through a personal network that has developed over many years
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• These activities were created for Parisians, many of whom had demanding professions...
and standards to match. As well, because Paris produces planet-known exhibits and performances, is a magnet for the whole country's creativity and is home to artists of all kinds from everywhere, we had to attract and retain members who were solicited by about 270 plays, 140 concerts, and 200 movies each week... not counting what took place through networks or outside the city proper. We were obliged to be exceptional.
French people opened private doors – the original "privileged entries". We came to produce several exclusive events a month... for almost 20 years.
Today our local members, many of whom we have known for years, are our guides, our specialists and the people with whom we go on exploring. |
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• That background explains why we can now propose...
° Inside access to the worlds of elegance, cuisine and wines, art history, châteaux, landscaping... .
° New ways of viewing world-known monuments and legendary neighborhoods... or little-known places.
° Personal receptions in galleries, private collections and artists' studios.
° Discoveries of the dynamism that minorities bring.
° Excursions that combine the publicized and the private.
° After dark...
° For groups, soirées that feature almost any kind of music or original performances in which artists look back to their heritage and renew it. |
- "Privileged Entries into France", or PEF, is a non-profit organization...
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• We present French culture in a way that is very different from what commercial mass tourism usually offers. Besides what has already been mentioned, the breath of our network lets us create tours that are genuinely personalized. |
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• Our fees are lower than those of commercial organizations. We propose an excellent price-quality ratio. |
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For the moment (in summer 2010) I'm "your man". As a guide, I've written these pages to give you an idea of what to expect or let you glimpse an authentic France via your screen.
These suggestions are only a beginning. We are interviewing and training other guides, to propose tours in languages other than French and English, and to enrich our proposals with their own interests and experience.
As well, our blog, http://unexpectedparis.blogspot.com, gives notes from my – our – ongoing explorations. These can be for pleasure, or to prepare for particular visits or create new proposals, as well as to follow the evolution of our artists or discover new ones. When I think a possibility merits looking into, I invite our local members to join me, for the interest, for photos and for feedback.
I'd love to have you read the blog and will be happy to reply to your questions. A la prochaine fois (till next time),
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Catherine Loveland Aubin Trip designer & historical guide Vassar B.A., Harvard M.A., Columbia PhD, all in History
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when personal contacts permit them. That's the case for some of France's regions, for Geneva and for New York (please CLICK).
We look forward to suggesting possibilities elsewhere when we have the contacts to do so. |
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