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Marrakesh, parched by the sun and bathed in a dusty light giving way to colors subtler and more seductive: intoxicating red, pink and yellow; mesmerizing blue in a sea of cool mint green and turquoise, and the distinctive shade of Majorelle blue.
The spirit of Marrakech fervent in the artists’ imagination. Henri Matisse and Yves Saint-Laurent fell in love with it instantly. An Oasis of color and fragrance: orange, fig, pomegranate and olive trees; roses and bougainvilleas, cypress and palms.
Slipping into dresses so fabulous. Dazzling giant rings embellished with sparkling gemstones. The Oriental spicy perfume: balmy, woody and powdery. Passing through a Moorish-style entrance into a lobby with white Moroccan arcades to Jardin Majorelle, a botanical garden that has the power to make us dream. So invigorating and fresh, restored as a gift to the city by Yves Saint-Laurent.
Stars that reflect infinity, the message is always love.
Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes, wrote songwriter and singer Graham Nash on a trip there from Casablanca in 1966, traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies. I’ve been saving all my money just to take you there; I smell the garden in your hair. Wouldn’t you know we’re riding on the Marrakesh Express.
They’re taking me to Marrakesh!
Nash and Crosby, Marrakech Express
Marrakesh Express is a song recorded by Crosby Stills and Nash, which they released on their 1969 self-titled album. Author and composer of its music, Graham Nash.
You may also enjoy A Woman’s Paris® blog, The streets of Marrakech, by Jennifer Haug, world traveler and ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher in Marrakech writing about the French influence in Morocco and her teaching experience there.
Automobile road rallies in France (Camille du Gast Crespin, Michèle Mouton and Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles, Moroccan desert), by Barbara Redmond covering the women who compete in a nine-day, off-road adventure in the sandy dunes of the Moroccan desert. And “Coeur des Gazelles,” the money generated from the race to help finance doctors providing medical care for people in the remote areas of Morocco.
In search of the perfect Moroccan slipper, by American writer Lisa Rounds who tells of her adventures in the North African neighborhood of Barbès in Paris searching for the perfect slipper in red, of course, for a Cosmo photo shoot. Her story of “living the dream,” working for a publishing company in Paris.
French Impressions: an interview with Alice Kaplan, author and professor of French at Yale University. Ms. Kaplan shares her new book, Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis, on the process of transformation. By entering into the lives of three important American women who studied in France, we learn how their year in France changed them, and how they changed the world because of it.
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