Purple Paris

Posted: 03 Feb 2014 - David Lebovitz I was buying a bike recently and, for some reason, the store offered the bike I wanted in two shades: black and prune (plum), one of the many variations on purple (which include, but are not limited to, violet, purple, and magenta) in the French vocabulary. I wasn’t sure I wanted a purple bike, but then I thought about how purple has invaded Paris – especially evident when an old-fashioned, traditional French butcher shop reopened this fall after an extensive renovation… But it wasn’t just the butcher… It was also the purple pâtisserie and pain maker… And the purple pane-maker… And the eyeglass maker… Or you can peep across the street, to another eyeglass maker… And there’s the make-up maker… The phone broker… And the salad maker…(ie: me) The ticket maker… Continue Reading Purple Paris...