I’m acquaintances with the author of The Paris Library, Janet Skeslien Charles. I just finished reading her book a couple of weeks ago and shared this video with her. I’m sure she’s going to enjoy it. I lived in Paris for four years had I really appreciate the videos you’ve been sharing from your time there. Thank you! 🙏🏼

A departure from your regular videos and/yet so enjoyable!!

What a joy to see Kirsten and her partner as featured performers in one of their videos (which I love and am obsessed with, by the way). In all of their videos about homes, they are always in the background, filming, recording, making the occasional comment. Here we have them speaking directly to us as they again welcome us into their world, and what a world it is.

So! Now we find out the two of you can carry a lengthy video yourselves just beautifully! I look forward to these every weekend.

This was fun to watch. It made me long for another Parisian vacation

Wow I didn't know the heating part of the story is why the cafes were so important and part of the reason it became such a mecca in the city. Cool thanks for the interesting history angle.

@justinyoung7207

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if people today go to coffee shops to work because it has become a tradition which started as a necessity? I hear some people say they work well in coffee shops but that’s not true for me.

This was fascinating! Thank you, Kristen!

Can take or leave Paris, but I admire what Kirsten has achieved with her channel.

Kristen, thank you, thank you so much. We are followers from the beginning and you and your beautiful family has allowed us viewers to educate, nourish our souls with beautiful scenery everywhere you all go. Go raith mile maith agat.....million thanks from Ireland.

Thank you for this different view on Paris. I used to study the old life of Paris market gardeners, once renowned for their excellent quality vegetables. Unfortunately they disappeared after the world wars.

Kirsten and Nicolas, yours is always such an interesting site to follow. I really enjoyed the literary trip through Paris!

I really enjoyed the ride.

This was amazing! I enjoyed it very much please do more.

I love this new format of your channel. The thematic is so enlightening. Your video brought back so many wonderful memories of my time living in Paris. Merci et bonne chance.

Fantastic!! I enjoyed a trip to Paris while sewing in my oasis with a glass of lovely, white french wine....thank you

You know a channel gets serious when it gets sponsored by Google! Love your content, Keep up the good work !

Now I can’t wait to go back to Paris. After watching this I feel like I can appreciate Paris better. Kirsten’s videos are inspiring and educational. Can’t recall the last time I went to a library or bookstore, definitely time to go back!

One of my favourite past times, second hand book stores. This journey around Paris for book stores, heavenly.

We have 'literally' talked about visiting many of the places you visited in this wonderful piece of filming as we have read sme f the associated literature or know of them thorugh film. Thank you for sharing this and taking us on a virtual jurney, until the day we can visit for ourselves! Dafydd & Ann x

Loved this video! Thank you! Such inspiration to imagine the many layers of life that has happened in all of our places... we forget the history,real or imagi ed of even our little hometowns. I will look again, more closely ,at my familiar surroundings . Much appreciation for the lovely tour of Paris!

That was an amazing video. You brought these incredible authors and artists to life. I love Paris, but I have always wished I lived there at the turn of the 20th century.

In 2015 I spent 2 weeks in Paris. Unforgettable !!! In a great way...

It's refreshing to hear you narrating; as you usually let your subjects tell the stories. Thank you for such creative videos; I really enjoy your channel.

Really love these vlog style videos ❤️❤️❤️

Thanks Kirsten for this film. Although I thought I knew Paris very well, thanks for sharing some bookstores I wasn't aware of ;-) Keep up the good work.

This was wonderful. I do so enjoy your watching your videos. There is always something to learn and think about. I hope you both had fun cycling around Paris. It was funny that the statue got moved.

@kirstendirksen

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jason. I love cycling in any city. Lived in San Francisco and New York and never had a car. Still get excited by buildings rushing by. And yeah, Nico was extremely confused when he couldn't find the statue. Thanks for watching and the comment.

Wow! This was fantastic! And your recent video about what Home is... You two are so talented. 👏👏

A magnifique video! I am very motivated to see Paris from this side. Thank you so much!

Absolutely gorgeous! You all deserve this home.

I really like what you're doing with your channel. That's cool that you got a sponsor from Google :)

There is a "Sylivia Beach Hotel" in Newport, Oregon where each room is decorated on the theme of a different author. I never realized that the name was also a literary reference. Thank you for the fantastic tour!

A great video as usual, though above and beyond. Yours is one of my favorite channels.

That's probably the only time I will see Paris, from a consumer/visitor/pedestrian view. Thanks.

Very creative video. Much needed in this times of materialism and mass consumerism. Something outside of the beaten path.

a free 20 minute trip to paris during a pandemic...yes please!

I really appreciated this video. I am an artist and a lover of all things arts. Thank you.

I love these narrative videos you've been doing Kristen! Thank you!

@bonilla2022

3 жыл бұрын

BRAVA!!

@kirstendirksen

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Frank! Nice to see you around from time to time.

Wonderful. More please!

I loved your vlog!!! I've been to Paris!!! Beautiful city!!! I have nice memories!

This was a virtual tour of Paris, and I felt like I was riding the streets with you. Thank you from Atlantic Beach, North Carolina!

@nicolasboullosa

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Sasha, it was one of the intentions of the vid, bringing you guys along, we hope it worked to some of you. Thanks for confirming it.

One of my favorites! What an amazing tour. Such a wonderful unexpected video. Hope you had as much fun filming and interviewing as I did watching. An absolute intellectual feast for readers!

How exciting!!! I love to find places from books I read :) I would love to see England one day and see Jane Austen's home.

Amazing video. I felt like I was in Paris on the tour with you.

Amazing, thank you for this masterpiece

I can't tell you how much I enjoyed watching this. Thank you for putting it together. Paris never ceases to awe me with its beauty, but somehow tracing the histories of its most revered literary figures and showing the world they drew inspiration from to inspire so many of us with their stories has added a layer of beauty & intrigue I didn't know existed. Going by bike (or foot) is the best way to experience a place and show these stories. "This is the way cities contain multitudes. There are layers upon layers of imagined and historical things happening" Very well said. The best places are those with the most layers to explore! I'd love to see more videos like this. Well done!

I loved this style of video from you! So interesting and informative.

Wonderful! I could feel the warmth of the cafe and wished that I had brought my notebook. Please offer more of your insider trips to us who are 'stuck' in our homes. And when the quarantine is over for us all please consider offering guided tours of your favorite places. My backpack is waiting for its assignment! Thank you Thank you!!! PS I am from Sonoma County and particulary enjoyed your visit to Sepbastopol and Graton where I lived for a time. Five Stars!

Great video, tons of interesting history and stories, even better than some of your architecture videos Also, this is the first time I've seen a Google Maps sponsorship. Big props

We really enjoy watching your videos and so appreciate the way Nicolás (?) speaks slowly and distinctly, as speaking too quickly in a video makes it difficult to understand. Thank you for all you do. ♥️

liked this one, thanks for sharing, I thought it could turn into a 9th gate type of series hahahaha bless you all

Thank you ❤️ amazing to see this type of content on your chanel.

Great piece.

I really like your vlogs and this was the best yet❤️

What a wonderful way to explore a city.

love everything about you....so grounded

Great tour! Last time I was there in Paris I did a bicycle tour and we got caught up in school kids coming out of classes! It was a good time. Thanks for sharing this journey 😊

@geabyrne

3 жыл бұрын

The last time I saw Paris!

I don't know what made you do this versus tiny houses, but you did an amazing job, and we want to see more. Do you have an outtakes 3 hour version of this? The google sponsorship made you go talk to someone besides this one guy, but it didn't feel like a sponsorship at all. We are all sick of USA media, and this was so interesting. The art and history and literature all in one journey through Paris reminds me of "Faces Places", a french movie that should be seen by everyone

Fabulous tour! Thank you.

Thank you for this current tour through my beloved Paris. It meant a lot to me. An erreur or two translating that poem (the one on the stone wall). But thank you. Never loved you guys more than now!

@nicolasboullosa

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Saw you have a video in your channel with “La chanson de Prévert”. Young Gainsbourg singing it is one of our favs. Cheers

@sarahspector5294

3 жыл бұрын

@@nicolasboullosa 💕

Bien fait! Merci beaucoup!

01:40 We have been here last time in Paris and took lots of picture of that statue. It's a nice neighbourhood full of Japanese restaurants and specialty coffee shops :)

loving this format!

@petehart6722

3 жыл бұрын

Why does Kirsten quickly add that the conspiracy about Masons was fiction? Is she afraid that Google might shut her down

@petehart6722

3 жыл бұрын

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I always enjoy your videos. This was a special experience.

love this vlog style video!

@davidanalyst671

3 жыл бұрын

the camerawork was a little much, but other than that it was great

What a lovely bookstore and owner. I enjoyed watching and learning. Thank you.

Great video! Love the format👍👍👍

Great video. Thanks.

I enjoyed this. Thank you.

I truly love the content of all your video blogs and this especially was so historically fascinating I hope you continue to do this types of videos in the near future certainly I’ll be one of them to fully enjoy it , thank you you’ve made my day complete!!!! 👏🏻🙌🏻👍🏻💛😃

I loved this!

Very educational and nice!

Merci beaucoup from Brazil 🇧🇷💐

I liked this so much!!!

Wonderful!

That was a special treat!

This was superb . . . loved this different content.

What an awesome tour of an awesome city!

Kirsten, Nicolas, what a great video. Here is a challenge for your search for lost books: try to find Rue Simon-Crubellier. Best wishes from London.

Definitely the most beautiful city in the world.

Great video.... And great title! 👍

Very cool video!

This will be a fun rewatch one day. Lots of things learned. made a to do list. ( Actually don't own any stolen books in my 300+ collection (that I know of))

Excellent!

Kirsten I really enjoyed this video about books an authors etc. Why not do one about artists who lived here like Gaugin, an V. Gogh, Tolouse la trec (sorry for bad spelling) that were here at same time. They have to have known some. Of the authors you talked about. They were inspired in this rich" happening place at same time "turn of the century"

Paris is my favourite, great video

Delightful!

Thanks for that.

Thank you for postng this entertaining and informative video. Added to my favorites. Becoming a francophile.

Watching this made me want to watch Tati's "Playtime" once more.

Love it More of my city please

Thank you!

i am overjoyed she took off her mask right away💕🙏🏻☺️

@hoppas77

3 жыл бұрын

Agree. I was wondering why everyone had masks on while they were just walking around outside... fresh air is healthy.

@dustyloup

3 жыл бұрын

@@hoppas77 because Paris has super strict mask rules..135€ fine for not wearing one.

@hoppas77

3 жыл бұрын

@@dustyloup that's so sad

meraviglioso

'It is a truth universally acknowledged: we'll always have Paris." (I even got married there). Thanks, Kirsten!

wonderful

merci.

I believe you have show us what school should be like for young people. Get rid of school, let the parents use their gifts, to create a life of learning the fun way by traveling and learning from the wise....this what a proper child hood should be like....out in wild not in a square box school room. Go raidh mile maith agat

For me...if i would choose i still love to read a real book rather than book apps in celphones and tab.or computers..you can bring them anywhere especially on top of the mountains,seaside where there is no internet.😇

Would've watched an hour long version of this with ads. more like this please. :-)

Rodan was my wife's grandfather's roommate while in Paris.