Louise Rogers Lalaurie
@louiserl.bsky.social
Writer (Matisse, art, travel, interiors...), translator (French fiction, art, travel, comité Colbert), landlady (Seine-side retreat in France). British, Welsh, European, Irish, French (in that order) https://louiserogers.blog
So sad to hear this yesterday. Laurent was my neighbour across the water, I enjoy the view of the beautiful modernist house he restored every day. RIP
July 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
So sad to hear this yesterday. Laurent was my neighbour across the water, I enjoy the view of the beautiful modernist house he restored every day. RIP
Scented daffs from Gwen at #shirehallmonmouth market & my aunt's banana loaf recipe: she told me she'd lost it, I remembered she gave me a copy decades ago, found that, photographed it, sent it from France to her lovely neighbour on Facebook 😊
March 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Scented daffs from Gwen at #shirehallmonmouth market & my aunt's banana loaf recipe: she told me she'd lost it, I remembered she gave me a copy decades ago, found that, photographed it, sent it from France to her lovely neighbour on Facebook 😊
Valentine's Day hugs and kisses from Monsieur Matisse ❤️ These postcards of his settings of love poems by Pierre de Ronsard decorated my student room and led me to write MATISSE:THE BOOKS, 35 years later 😍
February 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Valentine's Day hugs and kisses from Monsieur Matisse ❤️ These postcards of his settings of love poems by Pierre de Ronsard decorated my student room and led me to write MATISSE:THE BOOKS, 35 years later 😍
Or as the master himself put it:
February 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Or as the master himself put it:
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In Fontainebleau forest yesterday, some rather lovely French alexandrines honouring the two 'sylvains' (men of the woods) who created the amazing network of trails through the massifs of breathtaking boulders.
In Fontainebleau forest yesterday, some rather lovely French alexandrines honouring the two 'sylvains' (men of the woods) who created the amazing network of trails through the massifs of breathtaking boulders.
February 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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In Fontainebleau forest yesterday, some rather lovely French alexandrines honouring the two 'sylvains' (men of the woods) who created the amazing network of trails through the massifs of breathtaking boulders.
In Fontainebleau forest yesterday, some rather lovely French alexandrines honouring the two 'sylvains' (men of the woods) who created the amazing network of trails through the massifs of breathtaking boulders.
Morning! Brrrr...! 💙❄️
January 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Morning! Brrrr...! 💙❄️
Beautiful, dazzling, clear, frosty morning! Makes a change... (Really must clean those windows 🙄). Happy Monday!
January 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Beautiful, dazzling, clear, frosty morning! Makes a change... (Really must clean those windows 🙄). Happy Monday!
@dieworkwear.bsky.social Would love to know if you've seen the Gustave Caillebotte exhibition that's about to close at the Musée d'Orsay?
January 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
@dieworkwear.bsky.social Would love to know if you've seen the Gustave Caillebotte exhibition that's about to close at the Musée d'Orsay?
Also, I've never seen a sculpture by Gustave Doré before, and loved these baby fauns 😍
January 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Also, I've never seen a sculpture by Gustave Doré before, and loved these baby fauns 😍
Today's trip to Musée Camille Claudel in Nogent-sur-Seine was a superb, incl. the temporary exhibition, all about her monumental work "Sakountala", based on a Hindu myth popularised in France by a stage show in the 1890s. The few Rodins on show were standard, tiresome, sexualized, male-gaze fare...
January 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Today's trip to Musée Camille Claudel in Nogent-sur-Seine was a superb, incl. the temporary exhibition, all about her monumental work "Sakountala", based on a Hindu myth popularised in France by a stage show in the 1890s. The few Rodins on show were standard, tiresome, sexualized, male-gaze fare...
A clutch of Christmas pics! Wintry walk on Christmas Day, my book tree and homemade Christmas bûche, the view from chez nous on Boxing Day morning. #feelingthankful
December 27, 2024 at 8:55 AM
A clutch of Christmas pics! Wintry walk on Christmas Day, my book tree and homemade Christmas bûche, the view from chez nous on Boxing Day morning. #feelingthankful
A polyglot of translators in search of an author, in an enchanted Polish forest? The perfect Christmas read, I'd say ❤️❄️🎄📚 @scribepub.bsky.social
December 23, 2024 at 4:54 PM
A polyglot of translators in search of an author, in an enchanted Polish forest? The perfect Christmas read, I'd say ❤️❄️🎄📚 @scribepub.bsky.social
It was such fun :)
December 15, 2024 at 12:57 PM
It was such fun :)
A wintry walk along Paris's Left Bank yesterday: the Institut de France and its rather fabulously located bookstore, baubles galore at venerable Lapérouse restaurant, and a very fine selection of French writing in English translation (incl. 2 of mine, by Antoine Laurain) at Shakespeare & Co. ❤️🇫🇷📚
December 11, 2024 at 6:31 AM
A wintry walk along Paris's Left Bank yesterday: the Institut de France and its rather fabulously located bookstore, baubles galore at venerable Lapérouse restaurant, and a very fine selection of French writing in English translation (incl. 2 of mine, by Antoine Laurain) at Shakespeare & Co. ❤️🇫🇷📚
We're doing a bit of work upstairs, hence staying in the Airbnb to escape the dust and mess. Could be worse... #feelinggrateful
December 6, 2024 at 8:52 PM
We're doing a bit of work upstairs, hence staying in the Airbnb to escape the dust and mess. Could be worse... #feelinggrateful
All set for tonight's reading at Le Genre Urbain, Belleville, Paris :) Seven choice selections from the works of the great Gabrielle! (Wittkop de ce nom...) 8pm 🤓
December 3, 2024 at 5:21 PM
All set for tonight's reading at Le Genre Urbain, Belleville, Paris :) Seven choice selections from the works of the great Gabrielle! (Wittkop de ce nom...) 8pm 🤓
Just a heron on our neighbour's chimneypot, pausing before heading off to plunder the village's garden ponds of goldfish (s/he's emptied ours at least once...)
December 1, 2024 at 7:58 AM
Just a heron on our neighbour's chimneypot, pausing before heading off to plunder the village's garden ponds of goldfish (s/he's emptied ours at least once...)
Glorious late autumn sunset just now 🍁
November 28, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Glorious late autumn sunset just now 🍁
Here you go! Started by just flipping the books around, but then decided it needed whiter pages... and my classification system was screwed 🤣
November 24, 2024 at 11:02 AM
Here you go! Started by just flipping the books around, but then decided it needed whiter pages... and my classification system was screwed 🤣
And... that's a wrap for this week. Time for a pot of tea as I contemplate the melting snow ❄️
November 22, 2024 at 5:01 PM
And... that's a wrap for this week. Time for a pot of tea as I contemplate the melting snow ❄️
