NEXT MEETING: February 8, 2004 AND EVERY SECOND TUESDAY OF THE MONTH, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
This
is your opportunity to meet every month, often with local professionals
who can answer your Working and Living in France questions. You
are invited to come for drinks and share your questions and comments
about what it takes to create a life here, own property and enjoy what
France has to offer. It is also an opportunity to network with other
Parler Paris readers.
Upstairs
at La Pierre du Marais
96, rue des Archives at the corner of rue de Bretagne, 75003 Paris
Métro Lines 9, 3 et 11, stations Temple, République or
Arts et Métiers
| This
coming year's meetings... |
See past reports... December
14, 2004 |
MEETING
OF JANUARY 11, 2005
(Photos do not necessarily match descriptions.)
It
started off slow when at 3:15 p.m. only a couple of people had arrived...Barry
Fields, close friend from Sante Fe visiting Paris all this
week and newcomer Maryam Gasté, whose husband
is French and is a CPA with her own company providing U.S. tax services
for the Expat community, http://www.GoExpat.com.
Then the crowds started to climb the stairs and totally fill the upper
level of La Pierre du Marais with one-third regulars, two-thirds newcomers.
Regulars
you've heard about who try to stop in every month include Business
Mentor Al Stewart ; Delores Lilley from
Ottawa who comes every time she's in Paris; Paris
Soirées and Paris
Network hostess with the mostest Patricia Laplante Collins
and her pup, Eve; Psychotherapist Dale
Novick Gaber who recently spoke on "Why Men Have Affairs"
at Paris Soirées;
Anne
Morton from San Francisco, who just bought a Paris apartment
and is glowing with excitement and Jane Rosenstein
who is always accompanied by some new and different younger man! Robert
Larrea who has worked in theater and film and installed himself
in Paris last June graced our doors.
We
also had the privilege of Melinda Herron's presence,
author of the "Insider
Guide to Black Paris" who just returned from a very sad funeral
in the U.S. for her younger brother...we send the warmest condolences.
Back again were also Larry and Claudia Frame
who are living here now and Anna Escomel who never
misses a meeting, while she's housesitting and dreaming of making Paris
her permanent home.
Diana
Smith, long time Paris resident who wears many hats and dabbles
in apartment rentals stopped in for a while. Hat Sternstein,
proprietor of soon-to-be-launched boutique "Mon Bon Chien!"
was with us along with Mark Kritz was with us for his
annual January visit. Australian Nic Grove, who attended
our Invest in France Seminar, and Marion Reuter, founder
of FIT for Paris, came back for more fun, too.
Newcomer
and model Kate Merrill came to Paris with her future
husband who is a Romanian sculptor and wanted to come back to Europe.
She'd like to stay in Paris, go to school and make a career change.
Cherly Bailey, a civil engineer, has taken a self-imposed sabbatical
to redirect her career and stay in Paris. Victoria Asdown-Haddud
was looking to network, perhaps start a business with other Americans
in communications and PR/marketing after living here three years in
the 3rd arrondissement. Marc Dulman, poet, author and
teacher stopped in after learning about it at Paris Soiréees
Magda
Theodate, our latest arrival and attorney who has been in Paris
four years working for the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development) surprisingly ran into old friend, Felicia Shelton,
who has lived here on and off, worked in haute couture and modeling.
They were pleased to be reacquainted! Frenchmen Gérard
de Nouveau who spent five years in New York City, came to practice
his English, and Antoine Depellegars has lived in Paris
since 1988, is from Trouville and is currently looking for work. Tracy
James, mortgage broker and our new "Calendar
Gal" brought along her close friend, Annette Schaffer
who is visiting and looking to invest in property in Paris.
And lastly, Beth Morgan, who is working on
a book with her husband will be published in April by Simon and Schuster
called "Chasing Matisse." They love France and hope to find
other projects. I doubt they'll have a problem!
