Paris in July

Paris in July 2019

Participants
A bookish way of life, a Little bit of British, A Strong Belief in Wicker, Becky's Book Reviews, Bellezza, Book around the corner, Books as Food, Brona's Books, Carol bARTz, Still life with cracker crumbs, Fanda ClasicLit, Junk Boat Travels, Kwarkito, Mae's Food Blog, Ripple Effects, The Content Reader, The Marmelade Gypsy, The Reading Life, wb32 Reads, 

Host Posts
Let's Go 2019
Sign up Post
Paris in July 2019 Button Ideas
Plans for Paris in July - week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Paris in July 2019 - final wrap up




Paris in July 2018

Participants 2018 
Living with Thanksgiving, Colourful World, Dinner at Eight, French Ethereal, The accidental Blog, the [Blank]Garden, Books and Chocolate, Monica's Bookish Life, Magnolia Darjeeling, French Village Diaries, Chocolate and Croissants, Molly's Cozy Book Nook. Delights of the Heart, A Strong Belief in Wicker, Bellezza, The Novel World, The Reading Life, Coastal Horizons, Nancy Elin, Double Half, Brona's Books, The Heartland Chronicle, A La Carte, The French Hutch, vvb23 Reads, K.S.R.Burns, Faith Hope Cherry Tea, The Marmelade Gypsy, Beyond Eden Rock, The Content Reader, Lakeside Musing, Becky's Book Reviews, Reading, Writing, Working, Playing, Annabookbel, Readerbuzz, Books as Food, Mae's Food Blog. 

The final Post - to recap

The launch Post - to recall

Buttons for PiJ 2018

Week one sign up post

Week two sign up post

Week three sign up post

Week four sign up post

Week five sign up post

Paris in July 2017

Links to weekly posts
official start
Sign up post week 2
Sign up post week 3
Sign up post week 4
final post

Paris In July 2016 

This year I hosted this event on a shoe strong - but we all had fun anyway.

Participants included: A Bookish Way of Life, A Readers Footprints, A Strong Belief in Wicker, An Accidental Blog, Annabookbel, Becky's Book Reviews, Beyond Eden Rock, Brona's Books, But you are in Frence Madame, Chcolate and Croissants, Dolce Bellezza, Edith's Miscellany, Mae's Food Blog, Our French Life, ReaderBuzz, Snow Feathers, The Book Trunk Blog, The Content Reader, The Emerald City Book Review, The French Village Diaries, The Reading Life, Books as Food, Faith Hope and Cherry Tea,

Paris in July 2016 Posts

• Sign Up Post
• Week One
• Week Two
• Week Three
• Week Four
• Wrap Up

Paris in July 2015

Participants included - a strong belief in wicker, a wondering life, a bookish way of life, an accidental blog,  books and chocolate, books as food, brona's books, chocolates and croissants, dolce bellezza, faith hope and cherrytea, fleur in her world, guiltless reading, hyacinths for the soul, lakeside musing, Mae's food blog, monica's bookish life, my carved words, my cozy book nook, normandy life, reader buzz, ripple effects, snow feathers, the book trunk, the content reader, the eclectic reader, the genteel arsenal, the marmelade gypsy, the novel world, the reading life, words and peace, eat.live.travel write. 

Links to posts 
Welcome post
Button Competition
Visiting Paris with PinJ#6
Week 1 summary
Week 2 wrap up
Quatorze Julliet
Second Summary of posts
Week 3 links 
Week 3 wrap up
Final Week - links
Paris in July Wrap up 2015
Why I do Paris in July  

Paris in July 2014 

Hosted by myself and Karen
Links the key posts
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5

Summary Post

Paris in July 2013 (the fourth one)

Here's an idea of what happened in 2013 with over 40 Participants.
2013 Participant list

Bookbath (Karen), A Bookish Way Of Life (Nadia), A Good Stopping Point (Christy),A Reading Life(Mel U), A Ship Made Of Books (Ju H), A Strong Belief In Wicker, Adventures of an Intrepid Reader, All Through My Eyes, An Accidental Blog, Becky’s Book Reviews, Blue Hearted Bookworm, Books And Chocolate, Books Are My Bling, Books As Food, Chocolate And Croissants, Dolce Bellezza, Estellas Revenge, Fleur Fischers World, Joys Book Blog, Lakeside Musing, Letters From a Hill Farm, Literary Relish, Livros De Papyro, Mae Travels, Mary’s Library, Orange Prize Project (Fleur Fischer), Paris And Beyond, Paris Encore, Paris Through My Lens, Reflections of a Vagabonde, Skiourophilia, Stacey’s Books, The Book Trunk, The Eclectic Reader, The Gippsland Granny, The Marmelade Gypsy, The Novel World, Too Fond, Valie’s Book Den, Words And Peace, Thyme For Tea

Books 

The Cleaner of Charters, Alfred Jarry, a play, The husband who said mass - by the Marquis de Sade (1791)- !, Solange by Dumas, Boot polishing virgin by Emile Zola, A year in the Merde, Tour de France- the good, bad and just plain weird, Provence cure for the broken hearted, The French for Love, The Ladies Paradise by Zola, The Paris Winter, The Tour de France Pop up Book , Paris by Edward Rutherfurd, L'elegance du herrison - Murial Barbary (Portuguese post), The war, the french, le Road Trip, The Blue Room - translated from French, The Enchantment, Mission to Paris, Mrs Harris goes to Paris, The Chatelet Apprentice, Slaying the Badger - about the Tour de France, Paris in Color, The Sweet Life of Paris , Paris by Edward Rutherfurd, Letters from Sky (WWII), Footprints in Paris, Paris in Love, Cross and the Dragon, A Movable Feast, Scarlet Pimpernel, The Paris we Love * , Les Enfants Terribles, Paris to the past , Short stories of Guy du Maupassant, A town like paris, a collection of book reviews - Flappers, The Great Gatsby and A Terribly Strange Bed, Treachery in Bordeaux, The Whole Fromage - a bookish way, Provence cure for the broken hearted - Adventures of an Intrepid Reader, Its not love, it's just Paris - An accidental blog, 10 books that scare me (mentions some classic french literature) - Books and Chocolate, The Confident - Books are my Bling, Anna's French Kiss - Estella's Revenge, Kinky Classics (Tropic of Cancer; Under the roof of Paris) - Literary Relish, If I should die - Electric Reader, The Silk Romance - Words and Peace

Movies & Music

Tais toi mon coeur , le vie en rose, Paris Je T'aime, Chocolate , Jardin d'hiver * recommended post, Romantics Anonymous, Les  Miserables, Three film reviews; l'Atalante, Cleo from 5-7, La Rein Margot - a good stopping point, Movies with Parisian Scenes - Mae's Travels

Photo's, Places and People

Katherine Mansfield, Parc Floral, Hugh Masekala at the Jazz Festival - if you don't know Hugh Masekala - check this out - I enjoyed learning about this musician, Visiting Monet's Garden, Daily photos from Paris - Daryl posts a photo each day - they're thought provoking...., Joy visits les jardins des plantes, Joy recaps on her visit to Paris, Paris & Beyond posts photos from Paris every day - I like this one this week  , Stacey has been posting photos from France at the end of her posts - look further to see what she's sent you..., Cote d'azur (Vacation wrap up), Memories of Paris & le Louvre (Portuguese), Montsoreau on the Loire, Paris through my lens - daily photo's from Paris - inspiring thoughts, this week I liked this one, All-through my eyes - Daryl posts photo's each day , texting priest - a photo posted by Esme  * my favourite... it's just so everyday! Paris and beyond - Genie posts beautiful Parisian photos each day, Paris & the Eiffel Tower - photo's from Mae, La Piscine Molitol - Vagabonde posts about a famous swimming pool - history and photos, Villandry - gardens in France - post 1 and post 2, La Chatonnier, Snapshots of Paris, Snapshots of Lyon, Summer & Jasmin , Window shopping in Place de Veledrome, Bastille Day, Le Tour Eiffel, A symbol - A ship made of books, Palais royal metro - All through my lens (Daryl), Farewell Paris in July - Quote from Edward VII - Books as food, Rue Cler, Les Marches - Paris & Beyond (Genie), La Cycliste - Paris through my lens (Virginia), Paris at Night - The Marmalade Gypsy, Stained Glass - Staceysbooks , Anatole France - Mel U at The Reading Life , The best things I ate in Paris - A Strong Belief in Wicker, Impressionism and Modernity through the lens of Fashion - Dolce Bellezza, Recollections of a Vagabonde provides a very real and personal history of living in St leu la Foret

Food and Recipes

Clementine in the Kitchen, The Passionate Epicure - le vie et la passion de Dodin Bouffant, Patisserie - French for Yum! ,  Creme brulee, chicken and onions, Pistachio Paste 

Special notes - Posts that didn't fit my themes

·         An Accidental Blog is giving away a copy of her book 'The summer of France' - time limited offer....

·         Another interesting post - Papier d'Armenie - a deodoriser

·         Some French Humour

·         Tour de France Jumper

·         14 July - Bastille Day - Vagabond provides some history

·         Nari at The Novel World is posting the A - Z of Paris, France

Individual Wrap ups (interesting to see what people got up to during July)

• Farewelling Paris in July and dreaming of the next real journey - Adventures of an intrepid reader
• Challenge Completed - Paris in July - Beckys Books
• Paris in July Wrap Up (an extensive list of posts) - Joy's Books
• Au revoir Paris - The Novel World - a fitting end.
• The July Wrap Up - Too Fond
• Fleur wraps up July with a personal stroy that explains her absence recently - poignant! (thinking of your Fleur)
• en Bref - Literary Relish - posts her favourite of your posts.. Thanks for this :)

Paris in July 2012 (the third one)

See my final summary post here

Other relevant posts from my blog

• Intro post here
• Other Frenchy links here
• Random Prize No 1 post here (last year I gave out random prizes)
• My own Bastille Day post here
• Week 2 wrap up here (Karen did week 1 and 3 wrap ups)
• More Random Prizes here

And from my Co -host, Karen's Blog at Bookbath

• Mr Linky 2012
• Welcome post 2012
• Week 1 wrap up here
• Week 3 wrap up here
• Something for small ones here (just something very sweet for the little people in our lives)

Paris in July 2011 (the second one)

See Summary Post here 

2011 participants included: A Book Sanctuary, A Bookish Way, An Adventure in Reading, Another Cookie Crumbles, Beauty is a Sleeping Cat, bibliolathas, Book Around the Corner, Bookbath, Books and Chocolate,  Books as Food, Chasing Bawa, Library of a Black Cat, Curisity Killed the Bookworm, Curling up with a good book, Dolce Bellezza, Elle Lit, Fluer Fishers World, Flowersandstripes, Fragments du Paradis, Fresh Ink Books, Gabriel Reads, Gonda-Girl, Gudruns Tights, Just One More Thing, Kellys (former) Framce Blog, Kristen's Book Nook, Lakeside Musings, Literary Relish, My Cosy Book Nook, Not OK - Weakish Doubt, Nomadreader, Not sophisticated, Only Orangery, Packabook, Ready when you are, Riki's Teleidoscope, Sawcats Book Blog, Tell me a story, The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader, The Marmelade Gypsy, The Novel World, The Reading Life, The Story Girl, Think About Loud!, Third Storey Window, Tuth-Beauty-Freedom & Books, Unabridged Reader, Verty's Verigo Venutre.

Paris in July 2010 (the first one!) 

Paris in July - co hosted by me and Bookbath

Summary post is here.