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Thursday, November 15, 2007
Parisian Marie-Noelle brought me this child's ardoise / blackboard.It says:
Chez Carol
Watercolors - Macarons
Help yourself!
Help yourself!
These very same little blackboards or slates are what all French children use to learn their first ABCs. Marie-Noelle knows of my efforts to learn French handwriting..
As it happens, M-N tutors children in cursive handwriting, so our long-distance friendship is a marriage made in heaven..so to speak. Here she demonstrates her exquisite handwriting in my chaotic studio in the Marais.
As much as I love maps, I am completely gaga over these little blackboards menus / menus ardoises.
To me they are more a symbol of Paris than the Eiffel Tour...
And you can puruse them at your leisure and dream a bit of what you're going to eat. I love the broad expressive brush used on this menu ardoise... 
Isn't it just about the worse thing in the world when a restaurant has NO MENU outside for you to study over? It shows a complete lack of imagination on their part in my opinion...
Paris has picked up on my obsession with ardoises and I saw them everywhere. Not just in front of restaurants. Here in a boulangerie advertising meringues that are easily as big as your head!
This is a faux ardoise - just a bit of cardboard, but still a charming way to advertise your wares.Don't you think?
This chic boutique is using the "ardoise" style to show it's prices - most kind of them too!
In La Mere de Famille chocolate boutique - this ALL chocolate ardoise for returning back-to-school children to make the return less painful I suppose...
Not an ardoise at all - just a scrap of paper announcing the tragic news that L'as du Fallafel would not be opening until October 16! I had to wait 16 days for my fallafel - NOT FAIR!
Here is the dream job for me - writing out the menu on a cafe ardoise...sigh
Here's a little video on the L'Ardoise restaurant in Rouen for your morning amusement... And a petit lecon from French.about.com, that if you repeat and repeat will make you very fluent in French on the ardoise!
This chic boutique is using the "ardoise" style to show it's prices - most kind of them too! In La Mere de Famille chocolate boutique - this ALL chocolate ardoise for returning back-to-school children to make the return less painful I suppose...Not an ardoise at all - just a scrap of paper announcing the tragic news that L'as du Fallafel would not be opening until October 16! I had to wait 16 days for my fallafel - NOT FAIR!Here is the dream job for me - writing out the menu on a cafe ardoise...sighHere's a little video on the L'Ardoise restaurant in Rouen for your morning amusement... And a petit lecon from French.about.com, that if you repeat and repeat will make you very fluent in French on the ardoise!0 Comments:
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