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02 Aug 2007 11:54 a.m.
st.germain (1274 posts)
QUOTE(cigalechanta @ Jul 31 2007, 08:39 PM) *

We stopped in Nancy for lunch on our way to Annecy. We had lunch at the beautiful Brasserie L'Excelsior, stopped at Lefevre-Lemoire to buy a red tin of the famous Bergamotts of Nancy. (in the film, Amelie. she pulls a LL tin hidden in a wall) We walked about at Place Stanislas after passing through the beautiful gilded wrought iron gates and stopped at one of the many cafés for a pastis. Famous for it's art nouveau is the Musée de L'Ecole de Nancy. On the way we also stopped in Commercy at famed F. Grogain to buy the oval wooden box of A La Cloche Lorraine, the Madelaines de Commercy. When I have devoured my Proust moments, I save these boxes. One my shoe shine kit, another my sewing kit, and they now become my Proustian moments.


Your post is as good as the NY Times article.
01 Aug 2007 2:03 p.m.
Stacy Smith (917 posts)
Thanks for the article -- that's very interesting, especially as I'm planning at some point to take a trip to Toul (near Nancy), where my dad was stationed during his US Army service, and will most likely check out Nancy as well.
31 Jul 2007 8:39 p.m.
mimi taylor (1504 posts)
We stopped in Nancy for lunch on our way to Annecy. We had lunch at the beautiful Brasserie L'Excelsior, stopped at Lefevre-Lemoire to buy a red tin of the famous Bergamotts of Nancy. (in the film, Amelie. she pulls a LL tin hidden in a wall) We walked about at Place Stanislas after passing through the beautiful gilded wrought iron gates and stopped at one of the many cafés for a pastis. Famous for it's art nouveau is the Musée de L'Ecole de Nancy. On the way we also stopped in Commercy at famed F. Grogain to buy the oval wooden box of A La Cloche Lorraine, the Madelaines de Commercy. When I have devoured my Proust moments, I save these boxes. One my shoe shine kit, another my sewing kit, and they now become my Proustian moments.
31 Jul 2007 2:10 p.m.
Karen Fawcett (4638 posts)
Fascinated ... have any of our readers taken this day-trip?


TRAVEL | July 29, 2007
Day Out | Nancy, France: A Fast Train Leads Back to the Time of Art Nouveau
By ANN M. MORRISON
Nancy, the artistic and intellectual capital of Lorraine, is a great day trip from Paris — especially if you like the sinuous, sexy belle époque art form known as Art Nouveau.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/trave...70&emc=eta1


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