Musée du Louvre - la nuit

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqk_gGGFdYgqbezSCSsbi5PinBUt8toJZ-qFsUnAHGq8iivQXD4cK9sl29kkT9WBdY6TTTQ82pFu6uourlBhdsbFUDCEfpvQonBikmcLTc6ktmzcpCDRrZkopvTfiPQSsCQnpz-KT2Big/s1600/2014+Sept+18Nite+++++_20140918+027+DSC_9068.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqk_gGGFdYgqbezSCSsbi5PinBUt8toJZ-qFsUnAHGq8iivQXD4cK9sl29kkT9WBdY6TTTQ82pFu6uourlBhdsbFUDCEfpvQonBikmcLTc6ktmzcpCDRrZkopvTfiPQSsCQnpz-KT2Big/s640/2014+Sept+18Nite+++++_20140918+027+DSC_9068.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Musée du Louvre</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Late at night...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Two strollers walking through</div><div style="text-align: center;">Cour Napoléon</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Plentiful open space</div><div style="text-align: center;">and perfect for a photographer...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Musée du Louvre</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75001, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Musée du Louvre - la nuit

Musée du Louvre Late at night... Two strollers walking through Cour Napoléon Plentiful open space and perfect for a photographer... Musée du...

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Il fait froid!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiARS0krsQfVYzNAmZ4X0hCf-igbLaWaALQ2WLgwDYnnolZnWMi0VYwL5bixGiwMbHgeKX2XDgPvFAaT9Slx3c9trVx7Md43Neqv6FDCoOblR450H2FwB7oSQEwF6tLR5Fcsspompg8w0/s1600/2013+Nov23+Paris+_20131123+027+DSC_3614.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiARS0krsQfVYzNAmZ4X0hCf-igbLaWaALQ2WLgwDYnnolZnWMi0VYwL5bixGiwMbHgeKX2XDgPvFAaT9Slx3c9trVx7Md43Neqv6FDCoOblR450H2FwB7oSQEwF6tLR5Fcsspompg8w0/s1600/2013+Nov23+Paris+_20131123+027+DSC_3614.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It is cold!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Although January and February can be frigid in Paris,</div><div style="text-align: center;">rarely does it stop the city, the Parisians, the tourists.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have only seen snow twice in Paris, </div><div style="text-align: center;">but the December 2010 snowstorm emptied the streets...</div><div style="text-align: center;">except for the crazy photographers and a few children.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Quai Voltaire - Pont du Carrousel</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75007, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Il fait froid!

It is cold! Although January and February can be frigid in Paris, rarely does it stop the city, the Parisians, the tourists. I have only see...

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Musée du Louvre - un reflet

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR2PQFXZrdo5ZCeR-_9IQ7I1S_iY_mkIjJWVUr9qXFohOdUX5HITRb6ljneY5yColNRm25_2yzBu_7Es54xI0GtEoEk05MbVWOogh0Ug6sKMO1GgHNeIUOAJ7QYIB_kqEXcg15R4hHa4Y/s1600/2013+May+22+0522+Wed_582DSC_6204.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR2PQFXZrdo5ZCeR-_9IQ7I1S_iY_mkIjJWVUr9qXFohOdUX5HITRb6ljneY5yColNRm25_2yzBu_7Es54xI0GtEoEk05MbVWOogh0Ug6sKMO1GgHNeIUOAJ7QYIB_kqEXcg15R4hHa4Y/s1600/2013+May+22+0522+Wed_582DSC_6204.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Musée du Louvre</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Walking back to our apartment late one night, </div><div style="text-align: center;">we found the reflections of street lamps and the Hôtel du Louvre in the windows.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">bon weekend</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;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></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: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Musée du Louvre</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rue de Rohan et Rue de Rivoli</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75001, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Musée du Louvre - un reflet

Musée du Louvre Walking back to our apartment late one night,  we found the reflections of street lamps and the Hôtel du Louvre in the windo...

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L'heure bleu - Jardin des Tuileries

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG1on4NBY5413_RvifJmDxY47PkbJRYCFBt4mmtcAK1F0-8gGXrINYVDbRB3JUt7aiJueauj3lagHrNsRMk1rwT1kwu487df_M0Utjs5HjMwOi28H9fvzTRiyd6Q08qItGzl11xvKQuXs/s1600/2010+June+18+DSC_0748.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="524" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG1on4NBY5413_RvifJmDxY47PkbJRYCFBt4mmtcAK1F0-8gGXrINYVDbRB3JUt7aiJueauj3lagHrNsRMk1rwT1kwu487df_M0Utjs5HjMwOi28H9fvzTRiyd6Q08qItGzl11xvKQuXs/s1600/2010+June+18+DSC_0748.jpg" width="655" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Jardin des Tuileries</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The perfect blue-tinted light of Paris </div><div style="text-align: center;">on a June evening</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">bon weekend</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jardin des Tuileries</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75001, Paris</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

L'heure bleu - Jardin des Tuileries

Jardin des Tuileries The perfect blue-tinted light of Paris  on a June evening bon weekend Jardin des Tuileries 75001, Paris

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Fêtes des Mères

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLsYmJ06lD1VZTsF_BNqh42uc63D6Sedq512UFzyvBZSyj1AEFZzdQnlo2VKfuwMBGfuvODwlFIDvtLyJ9RVkLAECzhNTjQ5rk3mhlaIPIiUzxeQRPa3HjEEtP5I6txCmjxgN2RhcBxQk/s1600/2012+Mar+30+Paris_199DSC_5147.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLsYmJ06lD1VZTsF_BNqh42uc63D6Sedq512UFzyvBZSyj1AEFZzdQnlo2VKfuwMBGfuvODwlFIDvtLyJ9RVkLAECzhNTjQ5rk3mhlaIPIiUzxeQRPa3HjEEtP5I6txCmjxgN2RhcBxQk/s1600/2012+Mar+30+Paris_199DSC_5147.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Joyeux Fêtes des Mères</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Wishing mothers around the world a joyous Mother's Day </div><div style="text-align: center;">as we celebrate in the United States on the second Sunday in May.  </div><div style="text-align: center;">If you want to celebrate twice, </div><div style="text-align: center;">be sure to mark the last Sunday in May (25th) </div><div style="text-align: center;">for the traditional French celebration of mothers.  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The tradition calls for flowers and perhaps a poem, </div><div style="text-align: center;">catering to the whims of "maman," </div><div style="text-align: center;">and culminating the day with a large meal for the whole family, bien sûr.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The dessert, so I am told, is a cake that resembles a bunch of flowers.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">bon dimanche</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Musée du Louvre</div><div style="text-align: left;">75001, Paris</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">  </div>

Fêtes des Mères

Joyeux Fêtes des Mères Wishing mothers around the world a joyous Mother's Day  as we celebrate in the United States on the second Sunday...

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Pyramide du Louvre - City Daily Photo Theme Day: triangles

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-s0hnEH4Ol7PhVGPtksncAUq1hvo6cCXKturx27kLm0RcK2BXxbKPoC7Zq9Pruz49LqQsXgEDHc352dSgY-C3bYs01y8UJelvkPNfoRJK4PHUiIC3hMZCKqRbXosJpBzDHuE_Os2hHS8/s1600/2012+Mar+29+Paris_254DSC_4937.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="558" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-s0hnEH4Ol7PhVGPtksncAUq1hvo6cCXKturx27kLm0RcK2BXxbKPoC7Zq9Pruz49LqQsXgEDHc352dSgY-C3bYs01y8UJelvkPNfoRJK4PHUiIC3hMZCKqRbXosJpBzDHuE_Os2hHS8/s1600/2012+Mar+29+Paris_254DSC_4937.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Pyramide du Louvre</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The first day of the month is Theme Day for the City Daily Photo community, and the theme for April is "triangles."  In Paris there are two obvious and very large architectural structures which would pass the test:  La Tour Eiffel and I M Pei's Pyramide du Louvre, seen here.  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Taken in spring at dusk with the last glow of daylight, it takes on the watercolor hues of <i>l'heure bleue</i>.  The "blue hour" is a magical time of day when the softness of the fading light of day creates the colors only seen in artists' palettes and then dances across the Pyramide.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Pyramide du Louvre</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Musée du Louvre</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75001, Paris</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>See "triangles" from <a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com/2014/03/april-2014-gallery-triangles.html" target="_blank">cities around the world here</a></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>from my friends of CDP</i></div>

Pyramide du Louvre - City Daily Photo Theme Day: triangles

Pyramide du Louvre The first day of the month is Theme Day for the City Daily Photo community, and the theme for April is "triangles....

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Cour Marly - Musée du Louvre

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj45YzIH1aK53y29WAMluFhTLe6kivNzi7jAcvALOYhYqjn7BcBpES-59bocHn09MoYAHIhbSfpgTU-KovtaocIpU3pwzV7_xIrGHd0h2kCepm7uPcp5BMYzpEJfUl8ykrNFITjmPzdR74/s1600/2012+Mar+30+Paris_209DSC_5157.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj45YzIH1aK53y29WAMluFhTLe6kivNzi7jAcvALOYhYqjn7BcBpES-59bocHn09MoYAHIhbSfpgTU-KovtaocIpU3pwzV7_xIrGHd0h2kCepm7uPcp5BMYzpEJfUl8ykrNFITjmPzdR74/s1600/2012+Mar+30+Paris_209DSC_5157.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Horses of Marly</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="txtContent">The monumental statuary displayed here was carved for the park of the Château de Marly. Most of the works were commissioned by Louis XIV at the end of his reign. However, the courtyard is dominated by Guillaume Coustou's celebrated <em>Horses of Marly</em>, completed in 1745 under Louis XV.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="txtContent">Coustou sculpted these from a single monolithic block of Carrara marble - stunning.  These are the originals (moved to the Louvre in 1984) and there are copies at Place de la Concorde and at Marly.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="txtContent">(joyeux anniversaire, Countess)</span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="txtContent">Cour Marly, Richelieu Wing </span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="txtContent">Musée du Louvre</span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="txtContent">75001, Paris</span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="txtContent"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="txtContent"> </span></div>

Cour Marly - Musée du Louvre

Horses of Marly The monumental statuary displayed here was carved for the park of the Château de Marly. Most of the works were commissione...

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Louvre -- Le Carrousel du Louvre

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFWCWDoGBdCoTc3FM04D38uY13vY0qwgHA6b5wgSIjE93ISCbAuXeompyWRs9CRHOv6kxCHJmsI5q_4C8DQyw9cNqqzgt7N2luHLqzeBltGfG2xaHO5XnljA_KuUOA9_sBehJSTXKyNFE/s1600/2012+Mar+30+Paris_007DSC_4955.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFWCWDoGBdCoTc3FM04D38uY13vY0qwgHA6b5wgSIjE93ISCbAuXeompyWRs9CRHOv6kxCHJmsI5q_4C8DQyw9cNqqzgt7N2luHLqzeBltGfG2xaHO5XnljA_KuUOA9_sBehJSTXKyNFE/s640/2012+Mar+30+Paris_007DSC_4955.jpg" width="422" /></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;">Le Carrousel du Louvre</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;">What looks to be a fashionable mall is a corridor to the least-crowded entrance into the Louvre.  You can buy tickets at the Tabac on the lower level and quickly enter - no lines and no waiting!  </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;">To get there take Metro Line 1 and exit at the </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Palais Royal--Musee du Louvre station, and never leave the covered area going from one underground area to the next.  Just follow the signs to Carrousel du Louvre.  </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;">In the distance you can see the Pyramid</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Le Carrousel du Louvre</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">99, rue du Rivoli</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75001, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></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>

Louvre -- Le Carrousel du Louvre

Le Carrousel du Louvre What looks to be a fashionable mall is a corridor to the least-crowded entrance into the Louvre.  You can buy tickets...

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Metro sign

<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/9731372270/" title="2012 Mar 30 Paris_122DSC_5070 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2012 Mar 30 Paris_122DSC_5070" height="800" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5462/9731372270_a1884d1e66_c.jpg" width="530" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The high post with its lighted "M" is one of my favorite Metro signs</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">particularly when seen against a clear Paris sky</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The season does not matter</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Paris Metro Sign</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Near Louvre</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75001, Paris</span></i></div></div>

Metro sign

The high post with its lighted "M" is one of my favorite Metro signs particularly when seen against a clear Paris sky The season d...

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Escalier du Ministre - Louvre

<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/9348844970/" title="2012 Mar 30 Paris_217DSC_5165 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2012 Mar 30 Paris_217DSC_5165" height="800" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3691/9348844970_02790fa356_c.jpg" width="530" /></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;">Escalier du Ministre </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">in the Richelieu wing of the Louvre</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;">The Louvre is filled with architectural designs and details, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and this staircase, Escalier du Ministre, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">led up to the private apartments of the Minister of State.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you visit this area of the museum, you can walk up these steps </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">just as the royal visitors once did, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and amble through the apartments of Napoleon III.</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;">It is interesting to discover the many elegant designs </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">of the Louvre staircases.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Musée du Louvre</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75001, Paris </span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Escalier du Ministre - Louvre

Escalier du Ministre  in the Richelieu wing of the Louvre The Louvre is filled with architectural designs and details,  and this staircase, ...

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Musée du Louvre - Mercure et son ombre

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBTLtnGU_mNyrEf3pBfPdZI_7o6s8BlZ1qapQAjwPZDSwdfr6mnHLikYlplIgGXwf8NSsEWs-ewex5W9q9BGUZbOZp5twPbVe4W2e8trkq_oj6Eetd-pF9GhwzIrCGI4fBU1taQsL7uj0/s1600/2012+Mar+30+Paris_142DSC_5090.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBTLtnGU_mNyrEf3pBfPdZI_7o6s8BlZ1qapQAjwPZDSwdfr6mnHLikYlplIgGXwf8NSsEWs-ewex5W9q9BGUZbOZp5twPbVe4W2e8trkq_oj6Eetd-pF9GhwzIrCGI4fBU1taQsL7uj0/s640/2012+Mar+30+Paris_142DSC_5090.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Mercury </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;">This bronze of Mercury is seen in an arabesque pose, balanced it would appear, on the head of Zephyr.  He is poised on a gust of air coming from the mouth of this god of the east wind.</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;">My search of the internet has not told me for certain the name of the sculptor... any help?  There is one by Giambologna, a Flemish artist, but that bronze is in Florence at the National Museum of the Bargello.</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;">Mercury in this pose of flight is recognized often as the emblem of FTD Florist.</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: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Musée du Louvre</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75001, Paris</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Musée du Louvre - Mercure et son ombre

Mercury  This bronze of Mercury is seen in an arabesque pose, balanced it would appear, on the head of Zephyr.  He is poised on a gust of ai...

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Musée du Louvre - Escalier Mollien

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX60qp4Bm8-lAnVoVsawTKU7CBygBP26kFuJxf0EGEFWuAQ-nVZSAHbvOofNbIdfm_qSokMD1Lk8HPubk1pIvLwC9UmTzIQ4eOSXtHgCTbBFFPZ07TiqujK-GxVzVo6u7em-mAZOSrR_4/s1600/2012+Mar+30+Paris_148DSC_5096.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX60qp4Bm8-lAnVoVsawTKU7CBygBP26kFuJxf0EGEFWuAQ-nVZSAHbvOofNbIdfm_qSokMD1Lk8HPubk1pIvLwC9UmTzIQ4eOSXtHgCTbBFFPZ07TiqujK-GxVzVo6u7em-mAZOSrR_4/s640/2012+Mar+30+Paris_148DSC_5096.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Mollien staircase</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;">For anyone who has ventured into the Louvre, the size of this museum is staggering.  This staircase situated in the center of the Pavillon Mollien was built by the architect Hector Lefuel and inaugurated on August 14, 1857, along with the other buildings comprising Napoleon III's Nouveau Louvre.</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;">On my first trip to Paris this ironwork was a subject of sketches </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">as I tried to take in all the architecture Paris could deliver.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Much of my time in Paris now is spent behind a camera lens, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">but I plan to sketch again on my next trip, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">taking the views and details at a slower pace.</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: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Escalier Mollien - Pavillon Mollien</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Musée du Louvre</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75001, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Musée du Louvre - Escalier Mollien

The Mollien staircase For anyone who has ventured into the Louvre, the size of this museum is staggering.  This staircase situated in the ce...

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L'heure bleue - musée du Louvre

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqlmhJo_X-In7Lwke0uzveFnj3Y62P0tVzCndp7fMdttkYMLfsycrKDVa-KrdMXKEHP5UyFrBNSf_s0zOYgr6UJh-r2x6saIO96tJdBbB-vqJkl-CP-_mzTYLAh_EFs8wN7TZa-eC-AuE/s1600/2012+Mar+29+Paris_254DSC_4937.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqlmhJo_X-In7Lwke0uzveFnj3Y62P0tVzCndp7fMdttkYMLfsycrKDVa-KrdMXKEHP5UyFrBNSf_s0zOYgr6UJh-r2x6saIO96tJdBbB-vqJkl-CP-_mzTYLAh_EFs8wN7TZa-eC-AuE/s640/2012+Mar+29+Paris_254DSC_4937.jpg" width="640" /></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;">L'heure bleue</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(The blue hour)</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;">It is a magical time in Paris when the sun goes down </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and the sky becomes a palette of soft watercolors</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> in shades of blue and violet and pink.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">bon weekend</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;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></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: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Musée du Louvre, I M Pei's Pyramid</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75001, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

L'heure bleue - musée du Louvre

L'heure bleue (The blue hour) It is a magical time in Paris when the sun goes down  and the sky becomes a palette of soft watercolors  i...

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Jardin des Tuileries - en hiver

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJYdO7xG5lr7xkcLvSF7G0jnTJJhv_YXMcxftt6fCFFU6hIe8YAL5c70jALZU_ZFuqt1ocQ7QJBtKenORTRtCZMOVUvchjkSJrSLNtBCTrfB7AG1DmYcD92ED0IfKExWunSRIFdWE_xQI/s1600/2010+Dec+4+DSC_0116.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJYdO7xG5lr7xkcLvSF7G0jnTJJhv_YXMcxftt6fCFFU6hIe8YAL5c70jALZU_ZFuqt1ocQ7QJBtKenORTRtCZMOVUvchjkSJrSLNtBCTrfB7AG1DmYcD92ED0IfKExWunSRIFdWE_xQI/s640/2010+Dec+4+DSC_0116.jpg" width="640" /></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;">The large round basin of</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jardin des Tuileries</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;">The frigid temperatures combined with a layer of snow create concentric circles on the surface of the large round basin.  As you can see from the crowds, not even sub-freezing temperatures will keep people from this park.</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: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I did not sit in the green chairs this day...</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">brrrrrrr!</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;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jardin des Tuileries</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75001, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Métro Tuileries</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">(joyeux anniversaire, chère Nanette)</span></i></div>

Jardin des Tuileries - en hiver

The large round basin of Jardin des Tuileries The frigid temperatures combined with a layer of snow create concentric circles on the surface...

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Musée du Louvre - "Enfant jouant avec une tortue"

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicIMo2hcKH_xhrCba6bYg0Z2bD7_865q1tnf_rDmOIkY9ysj5sLJ36T2BBKuEiRsNceHh_brgQXQmBz1Q3rg3iubvcM7HrnBL9jyTm68vIX2f-EMvrVg69ea_6yn6euYMXp7ENhJ3h2DU/s1600/2012+Mar+29_5175DSC_5170.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" rca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicIMo2hcKH_xhrCba6bYg0Z2bD7_865q1tnf_rDmOIkY9ysj5sLJ36T2BBKuEiRsNceHh_brgQXQmBz1Q3rg3iubvcM7HrnBL9jyTm68vIX2f-EMvrVg69ea_6yn6euYMXp7ENhJ3h2DU/s640/2012+Mar+29_5175DSC_5170.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"Enfant jouant avec une tortue"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Pierre Hébert (1849)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This charming sculpture was found in a quiet corner of an upper floor.  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Although the Louvre is massive, there is no need to see it all at once.  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Be selective and truly absorb the details.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>1er étage - Richelieu</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Musée du Louvre</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>75001, Paris</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Métro Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em></em></span></div>

Musée du Louvre - "Enfant jouant avec une tortue"

"Enfant jouant avec une tortue" Pierre Hébert (1849) This charming sculpture was found in a quiet corner of an upper floor.  Altho...

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Louvre - Hippomenes et Atalanta

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKV85ocni7pizeNbrl-a99aYfWDR8I3h95Ge4Eq8Q3rhMiOHy7oMUedfc5gfYG1zTKl8TTMa5yNVdMIF46FhfyR-GQiE3w-d6xs048CzaMmsTxuhYmhNIhZsxsMWVTwkkJlWzncr1z00E/s1600/2012++Mar+29_5165DSC_5160.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="456" pca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKV85ocni7pizeNbrl-a99aYfWDR8I3h95Ge4Eq8Q3rhMiOHy7oMUedfc5gfYG1zTKl8TTMa5yNVdMIF46FhfyR-GQiE3w-d6xs048CzaMmsTxuhYmhNIhZsxsMWVTwkkJlWzncr1z00E/s640/2012++Mar+29_5165DSC_5160.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Photographing these sculptures in Cour Marly at the Louvre on my last visit, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I recalled having seen them in a different setting.  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><u>First, the story</u>:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">From Greek mythology, Atalanta was a huntress who agreed to marry any man that could outrun her in a race.  Hippomenes fell in love with her and prayed to Aphrodite to help him.  In response she gave him three irresistible gold apples to help him in the race.  As they ran, Hippomenes tossed the apples at intervals to distract Atalanta therefore winning the race and her hand in marriage.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><u>Now, the other sighting</u>:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the frozen cold of December, these Greek heroes were racing on a frozen pond of Jardin des Tuileries as I noted in a </span><a href="http://parisandbeyond-genie.blogspot.com/2011/02/jardin-des-tuileries-en-hiver.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>post of February 3, 2011</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHfxHNpJn3zC1HNs0lD3ylqXmk4TrEqS4TwfK51hlESWzSlePlOPpLnGMPxoeTtK3NAcUVRls230CEB3o3oqRUQ659NrhMSPOWFJ0Kabl38QXLndbB5CrtKbnz9SRpPbavA0Lc7LUpjnM/s1600/2010+dec+paris+4+DSC_0114.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="451" pca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHfxHNpJn3zC1HNs0lD3ylqXmk4TrEqS4TwfK51hlESWzSlePlOPpLnGMPxoeTtK3NAcUVRls230CEB3o3oqRUQ659NrhMSPOWFJ0Kabl38QXLndbB5CrtKbnz9SRpPbavA0Lc7LUpjnM/s640/2010+dec+paris+4+DSC_0114.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Cour Marly, Louvre</em></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>75001, Paris</em></span>

Louvre - Hippomenes et Atalanta

Photographing these sculptures in Cour Marly at the Louvre on my last visit, I recalled having seen them in a different setting.  First, the...

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Louvre Pyramid and full moon

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPndHlsAEutukYuQbeyAOPLT7RDTFtj2JdkQByQ71rkvpgYQGfVbAsCpA2e6_ja00E_5_tVOlB5ejm1nCRcaY_43bH6IHgSdQbl4S7c67lDqMdvlthGnZvDNQaiLo0LRU89WO3uQpv1E0/s1600/2011+april+7+DSC_0541.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPndHlsAEutukYuQbeyAOPLT7RDTFtj2JdkQByQ71rkvpgYQGfVbAsCpA2e6_ja00E_5_tVOlB5ejm1nCRcaY_43bH6IHgSdQbl4S7c67lDqMdvlthGnZvDNQaiLo0LRU89WO3uQpv1E0/s640/2011+april+7+DSC_0541.jpg" width="640" xaa="true" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Through the glass and steel of I. M. Pei's Pyramid, is seen a full moon and Pavillon de l'Horloge, architecture from different centuries gracing the Napoleon Courtyard of the Louvre.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Bon weekend</span><br /><br />Louvre Pyramid<br />Cour Napoleon<br />75001, Paris<br /><br />See more reflections here at <a href="http://weekendreflection.blogspot.com/2011/09/hand-in-hand-on-sand-weekend.html">James' Weekend Reflections</a>

Louvre Pyramid and full moon

Through the glass and steel of I. M. Pei's Pyramid, is seen a full moon and Pavillon de l'Horloge, architecture from different centu...

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