ONE THOUSAND THINGS I MISS ABOUT PARIS

This blog is about urban landscape as a repository of collective and personal memory. It is focussed on a walk one may take through Paris, mostly those parts which may be said to be pre-Haussman, and explores the city as a palimpsest. Buildings and places which have borne witness to a range of events, most historical, some experienced first hand.

"Understanding is the essence of that which one achieves through information intentionally acquired or experience one has oneself lived through" Gurdjieff

A recurring theme will be loss, those things that are lost as Paris constantly re-invents itself, incremental changes that become more apparent on less frequent visits than when witnessed daily.

The blog may not follow the route in the order indicated in this plan but reference may be made to it.

It starts at St Pauls which is in the heart of The Marais.