French lovers and those from around the world will not want to pass up the chance to celebrate Saint Valentine’s Day. Here are some original ways for you to celebrate.

Get ready for Valentine’s Day with “Arômes et Saveurs (Aromas and Flavours)” - On Thursday 8 and Friday 9 February 2007 - Cooking course designed for those in love

You’d prefer to stay indoors where it is warm on St Valentine’s Day, but would like to cook up something special for your loved one?

Then, come and « try your hand » at the Arômes et Saveurs cooking courses and learn how to create dishes inspired by Isabel Allende’s book “Aphrodite, the love of food and the food of love”.

On the menu: “new life consommé”, “odalisques’ salad”, “joyous chicken”, “novices’ breasts”, and other sensual recipes…

Information and booking: +33 (06) 80 52 44 26 or by e-mail on info@saveurs-aromes.com

-Fee :

Non-members: 68 €, members: 55 €

www.saveurs-aromes.com

Romantic evening at the Latina

-Wednesday 14 February 2007, from 7pm

-The Latina invites you to celebrate Valentine’s Day in a Latin-American, romantic and artistic atmosphere.

You will begin the evening at 7pm with the Argentinian-French film « La leçon de tango » by Sally Potter, (1997) in the original language version with French subtitles.

“A film maker, who writes scripts on tango for Hollywood, and who is unhappy with her work, decides to have tango lessons with a dancer who lives in Paris. They fall in love and make a bargain: if he makes a tango dancer of her, she will make him a cinema star. But things are not so simple…”

Then, around 9pm, you will go up to the Bistrot Latin, to have dinner, dance the tango or…watch the others dance.

-Fee :

The film preceded by a tango performance only: 6 €

The film preceded by a tango performance + dinner + dance: 17 €

-Booking:

Cinema booking, optional: cinelatina@wanadoo.fr

Table booking at Bistrot Latin, essential: 01 42 77 21 11 (every evening from 7pm, except Tuesday)

Internet : www.lelatina.com

For Valentine’s Day aboard the Antipode barge, the leitmotiv is humour!

-Friday 16 February 2007 from 8pm until midnight.

For those who are not planning a romantic evening, come along to the Antipode barge! The rules of the game are that you must come in twos, not necessarily as a couple (it could be with your brother, your cousin or your nephew).

Also wear something striking (like a hat, a feather etc.)and bring a little original declaration on the theme of St Valentine's Day, of course.

You will find surprises in store with fun and good-humoured derision! Booking advisable!

Free admission, but bring somrthing to nibble.

Péniche Antipode

opposite 69 quai de Seine (19e), Métro Riquet

Tél : 01 42 03 39 07

www.penicheantipode.net ; www.abricadabra.fr

Romance from Anvers to Abbesses !

-Friday 16 February from 6pm to 11pm and February 17 to 18, when mentioned.

-In their 15 studios or exhibition spaces, in the Montmartre area, from the boulevard de Clichy to the top of the Butte,32 artists of the association d'Anvers aux Abbesses, will present their paintings, photos, engravings, mosaics, sculptures, jewellery… The theme for them all is love, seduction, encounters…

. Aima 11bis rue Say, (9e) - painting, sculpture

. Marbleu 26 rue du Delta, (9e)- painting, sculpture

. Frédéric Ardiet 2 rue du Mont-Cenis, (18e) - salle ACF, Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre - painting, mosaic : 'Paroles d'Amour', (and from Saturday 10 to Sunday 18 February, from 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm)

. Gottfried Beyreuther 11 rue Robert Planquette (18e) - Cité des Platanes , Pavillon du Midi - music and painting :'Paris des amoureux - amoureux de Paris' «Paris for lovers – lovers of Paris»

. Joëlle Courtois 10 rue Germain-Pilon, (18e)- mosaic, ceramics

. Béatrice Knoch- Bernard Lamoureux 17 rue André-del-Sarte, (18e)- jewellery, photography

. Thierry Grave 24 rue Durantin, (18e) - sculpture, jewellery - (and from Tuesday 13 to Saturday 17 February -11:00 am /1:00 pm and 3:00 / 7:00 pm). ' Attaches par les liens de l'amour sur un lit de fleurs' « Bound by links of love on a bed of flowers »

. Jean Lamy - Françoise Gavarini- Paul Dehédin, 100 rue des Martyrs (18e) - Atelier du Silence - painting, sculpture

. Anne Moreau- Philippe d'Artois 15 rue Muller, (18e)- painting, sculpture

. Charlotte Reine 16 rue Paul Albert, (18e) - engraving

. Lou 18 rue André Antoine, (18e) - painting

. Anne de Seynes- Catherine Auclaire- Valérie Buffetaud (Exhibition ' ça tient à un fil ? « Does that hang by one thread?”)13 rue André Antoine, (18e) - painting, sculpture - (and on February 17 and 18 from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm)

. Géraldine Valluet, 5 rue Houdon, (18e) - jewellery

. Catherine Serres,- Elisabeth Bruley de Blignières, 32 rue Gabrielle, (18e) - painting, sculpture

Fond'action BORIS VIAN - 6bis cité Véron, (18e) - painting, photograpy, sculpture:

. Séverine Bourguignon

. Cécile Canuel

. Thierry Cordier

. Catherine Danloup,

. Jean-Luc Debève - 'Valentine s'envoie en l'ère'

. Sophie Duchesne - 'Rêve d'Ay'

. Isabelle Dubosc

. Golle Hajizadeh

. Julia Keiko

. Frank Magnier

. Sophie Magnier

. Quentin Morain

. Jean Villalard

Anvers Aux Abbesses

46 rue de Clignancourt, 75018 PARIS

01 42 54 64 56

www.anvers-aux-abbesses.com

Discover Paris in a romantic way on the theme of Egypt with Paris Go

-Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 February 2007

This will be a bucolic visit that begins in the cour carrée of the Louvre. You will then saunter past the classically-inspired statues in the Tuileries gardens, inspired by Egyptian myths, as far as place de la Concorde.

You will have your very own guide, just for the two of you for around 2 hours from 3pm.

Your will (finally) be alone at last when you arrive at the Louvre brasserie where you will be welcomed with a glass of champagne.

-Fee :

90 euros (2 people)

-Booking:

Tel : 01 53 30 74 40

E-mail contact@parisgo.fr

Internet : www.parisgo.fr

-And if you are young and talented…

And then, if, in addition to being in love, you are a young artist (over 18 yrs and under 35 yrs) and would like to get yourself known, then you can take part in the Grand Prix de la Nouvelle Romance in the context of the festival “Comme une Romance à Paris” (10 to 18 February 2007).

In fact, this competition is open to developing artists, who can audition in the three following categories: author-composer-performer, author-composer, and performer. Your dossier must be sent before 9 January 2007.