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Meet the people!

Your most lasting memories may be of the people you meet

"For Heaven God created France, and for Hell he created the French"

- North-American epigram

 

 

The misunderstanding arises from different codes of courtesy. We can explain them.

 
  • "Real people" (as opposed to tourism professionals alone) ...

 

 

This former computer programmer is explaining how he founded his shop.

...can be shopkeepers who love their work.

 

 

  • We can sometimes arrange exceptional introductions

 

 

The Director of the Protestant library shows 16th-century manuscripts to German Calvinist visitors.

Such meetings come about through personal contact, as this one did.

This questionnaire helps arrange them:

www.privileged-entries.org/index.php

 

 

  • If you organize for a group

 

• Private salons are excellent settings for concerts of classical music. Hosts, and perhaps some chosen friends, are present.

 

 

• Chansons françaises in a bistro bring an exceptionally convivial evening. Parisians can make it still more fun. We try to bring those who speak your language.

 

 
Parisians from PEF and Friends of an American orchestra

 

 

  • Some of the people visitors may meet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some of these Parisians appear elsewhere on this site, as artists, hosts, guides...

 

 

 

 

 

Credits: photos by Claude Abron (photo of Claude himself – left-hand column, 2nd row center – by Karin Liebe)

 

 

Unexpected Paris guided tours