Fête de la Musique - Place de Furstenberg

<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/9103443649/" title="2010 June 20 DSC_0029 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2010 June 20 DSC_0029" height="800" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7415/9103443649_1be11875ba_c.jpg" width="532" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Fête de la Musique 2010</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The guitarist</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Perhaps one of thousands of musicians, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the solo guitarist performed in the late afternoon in Place de Furstenberg, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">only steps from Eugène Delacroix' apartment (1857).  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Virginia, Marie and I encountered this guitarist in the quiet street </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and gave him our full attention.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">He willingly agreed to our photo shoot.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Place de Furstenberg</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75006, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Métro Mabillon</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Fête de la Musique - Place de Furstenberg

Fête de la Musique 2010 The guitarist Perhaps one of thousands of musicians,  the solo guitarist performed in the late afternoon in Place de...

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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqyOcDOpB36y6CGpYlUV_1Py9hrz92LRqq6kiKqosCDo3QP4ZoNOuX3LYXnAhustZOg1JPw4mK80BLNoozpQV7vVEOSdr2rBNN70kdbm2qJm8bRAOrdnXgPZ0dmuZ-XFbLPFKuIcHG1N4/s1600/DSC_0575lighter.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506160420979101026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqyOcDOpB36y6CGpYlUV_1Py9hrz92LRqq6kiKqosCDo3QP4ZoNOuX3LYXnAhustZOg1JPw4mK80BLNoozpQV7vVEOSdr2rBNN70kdbm2qJm8bRAOrdnXgPZ0dmuZ-XFbLPFKuIcHG1N4/s640/DSC_0575lighter.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><div>It was not until I posted the Sunday church, <a href="http://parisandbeyond-genie.blogspot.com/2010/08/eglise-saint-denys-du-saint-sacrement.html"><span style="color:#ffcc33;">Saint Denys du Saint Sacrement</span></a>, and I was looking for information on Eugène Delacroix that I realized the <a href="http://www.musee-delacroix.fr/"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Musée national Eugène Delacroix</strong></span></a> was in the same block as my hotel! </div><br /><br /><div></div><div>I even stopped to photograph the beautiful building, l'Institut Catholique de Paris on Rue de l'Abbaye, from the little shaded Place Furstenberg. We walked past the entrance to the museum tucked away in the corner which would have just been over my right shoulder as I snapped this photo.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Most days as we walked through Place Furstenberg, there were people playing music or just sitting with friends. There was much activity for La Fête de la Musique en juin.</div><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div align="center">Musée national Eugène Delacroix</div><div align="center">6, rue de Furstenberg</div><div align="center">6ième Arrondissement</div>

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It was not until I posted the Sunday church, Saint Denys du Saint Sacrement , and I was looking for information on Eugène Delacroix that I r...

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