by The Marais Mood | November 12, 2019 | Culture, Heritage
Place de la Bastille, Theodor Josef Hubert Hoffbauer, 1841 The storming of the Bastille is one of the major events in our history. This is the starting point of a total and new “Revolution” which, let us remember, gives birth to our very first “...
by The Marais Mood | November 5, 2019 | Fitness
What is hatha yoga? A rather gentle yoga that works precisely and rhythmically on the postures. Hatha yoga is a discipline of harmonization and development of psychological faculties: concentration and bodily serenity (power and...
by The Marais Mood | November 4, 2019 | Culture, Heritage
Tomb of Henry II and Catherine de Medici at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint-Denis On June 26, 1574, the crowd gathered in Place de Grève to witness the beheading of one of the leaders of the Protestant clan, Gabriel de Lorges , Earl of Montgomery. It is...
by The Marais Mood | October 30, 2019 | Street look
One fine day, sitting at a café terrace, you see a couple pass by who seems charming to you and who, seen from afar, seem to embody the French spirit wonderfully, a notion, it is true, subjective to say the least... and here you are running after them to ask them if they...
by The Marais Mood | October 27, 2019 | Culture, The people of the Marais
In the extensive biography of Alain Moreau, an autodidact born in Lyon, a city he abhors, living in the Marais for almost 50 years, let us remember two feats of arms. The first was the headbutt he delivered one day to Jean-Edern Hallier (another marsh resident,...
