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Parisian Lives  –  Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir (2019) is set in Paris over 15 years from 1970 to 1985. It is the backstory of the author’s first two biographies – Samuel Beckett: A Biography (1978) and Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography (1991).   It was these two biographies that become Deirdre Bair’s best sellers. Bair tells how she landed access to the French authors, and her modus operandi for writing about the 1969 Nobel Prize winning Irish author Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) – best known for his 1953 novel Waiting for Godot, and the French feminist and existentialist novelist Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) – best known for The Second Sex (1949) and The Coming of Age (1970). Both biographies took different styles and methods to adapt to two completely different people.   Bair begins with the years 1970 to 1977 with Samuel Beckett whom she met with regularly in Paris, where he was living. She has just completed her doctorate and had never even read a biography wh

In 2021, the Zoological Park of Paris, commenced a series of drawing and photography exhibitions in the Zoo. As such, the Zoo collaborated with illustrator and nature lover, Laurent Verron, for a series of Zoo posters.   For this “Wild Meetings” series, Laurent Verron’s original drawings and sketches are still on display, initially from 23 October to 7 November, and extended to the end of November.    MARTINA NICOLLS MartinaNicollsWebsite   Martinasblogs Publications Facebook Paris Website Animal Website Flower Website SUBSCRIBE TO MARTINA NICOLLS FOR NEWS AND UPDATES    MARTINA NICOLLS   is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author   of:  The Paris Residences of James Joyce   (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

  The town hall of the 6th arrondissement in Paris is hosting the 73rd exhibition of the Society of Painters-Engravers, an association of artists founded in 1889, including Felix Bracquemond, Edgar Degas, and Auguste Rodin.   This new exhibition is called “La Nature Morte” (“Still Life”) – with nearly a hundred works. Thirty members of the Society of Painters-Engravers are showing their works, along with the prints and drawings of their 12 invited artists.    The exhibition runs from 20 November to 6 December 2021. Delphine D. Garcia Gerarddiaz Muriel Moreau Francois Houtin Assadour Marjan Seyedin Renaud Allirand Pierre Collin  Mikio Watanabe MARTINA NICOLLS MartinaNicollsWebsite   Martinasblogs Publications Facebook Paris Website Animal Website Flower Website SUBSCRIBE TO MARTINA NICOLLS FOR NEWS AND UPDATES    MARTINA NICOLLS   is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author   of:  The Paris Residences of James Joyce   (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal K