Photographer, content creator, Paris lover, native Parisian and …… Happy founder of “Anne Jeanne in Paris”. I founded Anne Jeanne in Paris, a friend in Paris, in 2014.
Anne Jeanne, along the Quai d’Orléans, on Ile Saint Louis
I WAS BORN AND RAISED in PARIS
I am a member of the 3d generation of a Parisian family (actually fourth, as my great-grandmother was Parisian too).
I was born and raised in Paris, so were my parents. My grand parents arrived in Paris at a young age. My great grand mother, in her 20s with her little girl (my grand mother, then 4).
I live in the 14th arrondissement of Paris (South of Montparnasse, on the Left bank. Some would say, Southern part of Montparnasse) .
But … does being born in Paris makes a change ?
BUT DOES BEING A NATIVE REALLY MATTERS … ?!
“Being Parisian isn’t about being born in Paris, it’s about being reborn there,” Sacha Guitry (French filmmaker)
Actually although I’ve become “a scarce resource” (lol) as there are fewer and fewer Parisians born in Paris who still live in the city (less than 30% of the inhabitants of Paris were born in Paris).
So you’ll guess that there is only a very few number of them whose parents and grand parents were Parisian too…), the importance of being a native Parisian can be questioned.
Actually, what can makes a real difference is having known and loved Paris, through several decades, in its different aspects and thus having observed and experienced the changes of the city). Having been a child, a student, a single, a friend, a worker, a married woman, a mother in the city of light, which make Paris culture and life an intimate part of who I am, a part of your DNA. And this is what I enjoy sharing with you !
On social media (FB : Ann Jeanne in Paris) I share with you the Paris I love and know most
Up to recently, I’ve offered private walking tours : my goal has always been to share rather than to lead, to discuss and exchange rather to make you listen to a speech.
I am not a tour guide. Being a tour guide, this isn’t the meaning of Ann Jeanne in Paris
Anne Jeanne in Paris this is a different state of mind, a kind of “non-tourist” mindset, a different perspective. Breathing and experiencing the city and its culture, rather than visiting it.
I share with you the places and neighborhoods that I know and that love most, and that have a very special meaning to me, in my own life and in my family history too. Something personal, intimate and friendly.
Nowadays, I only do a very few promenades and offer other services as well.
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My PARIS HOMES
Now I live in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. In an Haussmannian style building, built in the early 20th century.
What do I prefer most in my building ? The entrance hall (!) the back courtyard and my apartment too. Also the peacefulness and the History of the neighborhood where so many artists lived especially in the 20s and 30s.
This is where Françoise Hardy lived until the 80s, a few dozen meters from my building. She used to shop in the same shops as my mother’s
In the meantime between my childhood and until a dozen years ago, I lived in other different Paris neighborhoods too, in the 15th arrondissement (Western part of Paris), and in the 17th arrondissement (North East part of Paris)
MY STUDIES AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
After my secondary school years in the heart of the historic Montparnasse , I graduated with a Master in Law from Sorbonne University in the heart of the Latin Quarter. I completed this master by some more years, before graduating with a second master in marketing and communication
I then worked in the field of Marketing. Later, my family life led me to take another direction and I worked at the National Education for which I worked on a project related to the History of Paris and more particularly on Lutetia (Lutetia, the Gallo-Roman city before Paris was called Paris). This project reinforced my interest in Paris, its architecture and its origins.
This is surely what inspired and drew me to founding “Ann Jeanne in Paris, a friend in Paris”, in addition to my old dream and goal of creating my own business.
And I managed to combine in this activity most of the subjects I love: people ( = sharing with you), photography, Paris, writing, French culture, English language, musique…
Photography has always been a part of my life
From an early age, then during my student’s years up to now
Portraits, photo shoots in ready-to-wear salons (where I saw the start of Jean Paul Gaultier and Thierry Mugler, who weren’t known as high designers yet), photos for architecture agencies.
But taking portraits has always been the live wire of my photographic work.
Up to the early 2000s, my camera was a film camera Pentax MX. and I most often developed and retouched the photos myself.
None of the digital cameras I worked with later (Nikon, Olympus) have been able surpass my Pentax MX, except the one I finally found in 2023: my Fujifilm XT5 which I really love.
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Yes photography has always been a big part of my live…
