There are two main flea markets - Vanves at the southern edge of the city (smaller, cheaper, and more informal) and St-Ouen on the northern edge (much larger, more expensive, and semi-permanent). I would love to know more about your great grandfather. I know you put a lot of effort in your articles and want you to know I really enjoy reading them. Now the internet makes travel information instantly available to everyone. Mark Eversman’s monthly newsletter eventually went online and then he retired. We also used Sandra’s books, as well as her editions on London, and she eventually dropped the “Cheap” in the title. We too gradually moved on to rent and now have purchased a part ownership in an apartment in Paris for our visits. We used her book to find three or four hotels before settling exclusively on one where we became friendly with the owners and remain in contact to this day. We met Sandra Gustafson in LA at The Traveler’s Bookstore one April evening back in about 1993 or ’94 when I had an art show of my watercolors of Paris and she was there promoting her books as was Mark Eversman, promoting his fine newsletter, “Paris Notes”. Their use of the “birds-eye view’ was repeated by countless painters in the impressionist and post-impressionist camp. That point of view was also a result of the influx into Paris of “cheap” Japanese woodblock prints. I enjoyed reading about the history of their arrival in France and wanted to connect that story, of the Japanese craze to hit France at the end of the 19th century, with your article on “The Balcony Scene” showing Caillebotte’s ariel-view painting. My father-in-law collected netskes right after the second world war and my wife and her sister have many beautiful ones. I was re-reading the articles on your blog this morning and wanted to mention that I read De Waal’s book on the Ephrussi family and Charles’ netskes after reading of it on your blog this month.
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