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tenlittlebullets) wrote2010-03-25 07:26 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2010-03-25 07:26 pm
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Montreuil-sur-Mer tomorrow! Any photo/research requests?
This afternoon was kind of disgustingly gorgeous--cool in the shade, warm in the sun, windy and intermittently cloudy, and the trees are starting to go into flower. And I managed to be inside whenever it started raining. I love spring weather. Walked along the Seine from the eastern end of Paris (a bit past Bercy) to Saint-Michel, where I predictably went to Gibert Jeune and spent too much money on books.
Haul:
- La Comtesse de Rudolstadt (George Sand) - already read it, but I bought Consuelo in the exact same bookstore from the exact same used books rack two years ago, and I didn't have a copy of Comtesse de Rudolstadt, so I couldn't resist
- Corinne (Mme de Staël)
- Armance (Stendhal)
- Méditations poétiques (Lamartine)
So, I guess apart from the Sand it was an early-Romanticism kick, except I honestly didn't set out to do that. It was just what they had for cheap.
And now I get to choose what to take on the train to Montreuil-sur-Mer. Oh boy. Armance is probably too short for a train ride... Corinne? Père Goriot? Faust? Vidocq's memoirs?
(It occurs to me that if I ever have a kid, I'm going to have to teach her French so that she can raid my library. And feel properly pleased with herself when she stumbles upon the naughty books.)
This afternoon was kind of disgustingly gorgeous--cool in the shade, warm in the sun, windy and intermittently cloudy, and the trees are starting to go into flower. And I managed to be inside whenever it started raining. I love spring weather. Walked along the Seine from the eastern end of Paris (a bit past Bercy) to Saint-Michel, where I predictably went to Gibert Jeune and spent too much money on books.
Haul:
- La Comtesse de Rudolstadt (George Sand) - already read it, but I bought Consuelo in the exact same bookstore from the exact same used books rack two years ago, and I didn't have a copy of Comtesse de Rudolstadt, so I couldn't resist
- Corinne (Mme de Staël)
- Armance (Stendhal)
- Méditations poétiques (Lamartine)
So, I guess apart from the Sand it was an early-Romanticism kick, except I honestly didn't set out to do that. It was just what they had for cheap.
And now I get to choose what to take on the train to Montreuil-sur-Mer. Oh boy. Armance is probably too short for a train ride... Corinne? Père Goriot? Faust? Vidocq's memoirs?
(It occurs to me that if I ever have a kid, I'm going to have to teach her French so that she can raid my library. And feel properly pleased with herself when she stumbles upon the naughty books.)