Falafel and Victor Hugo

 We finally started feeling better this weekend and we decided to get outside and see the sun.  Where better to go than L'As du Falafel?  This is a very popular and much written about falafel joint.  The line was long and filled with tourists and the falafel was delicious. 

 In the photo these bins seem much smaller than they actually are.

These are enormous bins of cabbage and cucumbers.

 My dad always explains that he wears Lee jeans because when he was growing up ,Lee jeans were what the farm boys wore and Levis were what the city boys wore.  It looks like farm boy jeans have made it to the big city.  There is a very fancy store right across from L'As du Falafel.

 Place des Vosges

Victor Hugo

 Victor Marie Hugo  (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831 (known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame).

 Victor Hugo moved often, but he lived for the longest time in a lovely apartment overlooking Place des Vosges.  It is a city museum and it is free.  Here is a view from one of the windows.

 Victor Hugo had this desk made; it holds his ink well along with those of Alexandre Dumas, George Sand, and Alphonse de Lamartine. 

This Chinese room is a replica of the one that was in Juliette Drouet's house on Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands.  Juliette was Victor Hugo's long time mistress and joined him in exile.