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Elle pleure

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0XmGivq7DQjXp6dvRdhENf98tMty5XEM3dnGh6KTy7jBSIS1vGxdJYKLYmfH2jTj0Qa39yBYwISzjyh75eD_xrugG7oDe_k3jEKbAUM8I1Ix6fLLctv8onyFYZQ-7xmq1954POX-mlTc/s1600/2009+Dec+00341.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0XmGivq7DQjXp6dvRdhENf98tMty5XEM3dnGh6KTy7jBSIS1vGxdJYKLYmfH2jTj0Qa39yBYwISzjyh75eD_xrugG7oDe_k3jEKbAUM8I1Ix6fLLctv8onyFYZQ-7xmq1954POX-mlTc/s1600/2009+Dec+00341.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">She cries</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">She has cried many times </div><div style="text-align: center;">over the past century</div><div style="text-align: center;">for loss of innocent lives </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">She cried again </div><div style="text-align: center;">on January 7, 2015</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;">Cimetière du Père Lachaise</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75020, Paris</span></i></div>

Elle pleure

She cries She has cried many times over the past century for loss of innocent lives She cried again on January 7, 2015 Cimetière du Père L...

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Pensive? Nostalgique?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir38iwMSQIkCA4MSqQEYZTzQZkCD6b6cJkzQmWKUe8el87mm0Pk0AwhiUjIGr556cf7ymrXmODVV3Sc5kTHkm-DaAxiHCbH_oYRk6AoRqE5a89Ky6gSGIO8eQdXiyAZdOqgWw4mdpe0Mo/s1600/2013+May+21+0521+Tues_66DSC_5485.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir38iwMSQIkCA4MSqQEYZTzQZkCD6b6cJkzQmWKUe8el87mm0Pk0AwhiUjIGr556cf7ymrXmODVV3Sc5kTHkm-DaAxiHCbH_oYRk6AoRqE5a89Ky6gSGIO8eQdXiyAZdOqgWw4mdpe0Mo/s1600/2013+May+21+0521+Tues_66DSC_5485.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Printemps - premier étage</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">As this statue perched outside on the second floor </div><div style="text-align: center;">peers in at the grand staircase, </div><div style="text-align: center;">do you think that she must be a bit wistful </div><div style="text-align: center;">to have spent the past 100 years </div><div style="text-align: center;">only looking in at the fashions of Printemps?</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;">must be a French girl</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;">Printemps</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;"><em>64, boulevard Haussmann</em></span></span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><em>75009, Paris</em></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Pensive? Nostalgique?

Printemps - premier étage As this statue perched outside on the second floor peers in at the grand staircase, do you think that she must b...

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Trois statues parmi les fleurs

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZb_y6bEzPfax-d5rFt0p1YHNVJgqHvujdhyphenhyphenjiadgCx5gQ18bX7xR2DtFWGbEwmRmPLsuh5kOxN61o0lpBKfg7CZHg4e-Qv_kI65IcXj29tUAWHJCJRKJ5vcm1IC-g9Eh3rhrN6TkNYyM/s1600/2013+May+19+0519_264DSC_4512.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZb_y6bEzPfax-d5rFt0p1YHNVJgqHvujdhyphenhyphenjiadgCx5gQ18bX7xR2DtFWGbEwmRmPLsuh5kOxN61o0lpBKfg7CZHg4e-Qv_kI65IcXj29tUAWHJCJRKJ5vcm1IC-g9Eh3rhrN6TkNYyM/s1600/2013+May+19+0519_264DSC_4512.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Three statues among the flowers</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Without regard to the season or the weather,</div><div style="text-align: center;">one can always find fresh flowers, herbs, and plants in Paris.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Are you ready for spring?</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;">Mahasiah</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;">234, boulevard Raspail</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;">75014, Paris</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Trois statues parmi les fleurs

Three statues among the flowers Without regard to the season or the weather, one can always find fresh flowers, herbs, and plants in Paris. ...

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Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris

<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/10505027365/" title="2012 Mar 28 Paris_175DSC_4530 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2012 Mar 28 Paris_175DSC_4530" height="800" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2845/10505027365_58dbd76dac_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;">Notre Dame</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 exterior of this 800-year-old cathedral </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">is well-known for its many statues over the massive doors.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The broader view reveals gargoyles and chimeras in various poses.  </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;">Do you think that this one might look like </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">J. R. R. Tolkien's Gollum? </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: 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;">bon dimanche</span></i></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;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">6 Parvis Notre Dame</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Place Jean-Paul II</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">75004, Paris</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></i></div>

Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris

Notre Dame The exterior of this 800-year-old cathedral is well-known for its many statues over the massive doors. The broader view reveal...

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Parc de Monceau - une statue

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjusfJ5U7znYmo8APbIcubB9YbINOub6UGUN8afs5cWdjGk6jvS-g0InaxwRrs6Ntl23YmGYHaTUyN_H8TYgwaJKDtx2zyG7j7mXIBEiOO-r4TzK1BTTS7WLC_8KGX5fJcmhq9qTNoIOPg/s1600/2011+0418+DSC_0268.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="596" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjusfJ5U7znYmo8APbIcubB9YbINOub6UGUN8afs5cWdjGk6jvS-g0InaxwRrs6Ntl23YmGYHaTUyN_H8TYgwaJKDtx2zyG7j7mXIBEiOO-r4TzK1BTTS7WLC_8KGX5fJcmhq9qTNoIOPg/s640/2011+0418+DSC_0268.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;">A statue (or two)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Parc de Monceau</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;">A warm sunny day in the park</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">found this gentleman in meditation </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;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Parc de Monceau</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><em>Boulevard des Courcelles</em></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><em>(five entrances around the park)</em></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><em>75008, Paris</em></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><em>Métro Monceau</em></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><em> </em></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><em> </em></span></span></div>

Parc de Monceau - une statue

A statue (or two) Parc de Monceau A warm sunny day in the park found this gentleman in meditation Parc de Monceau Boulevard des Courcelles ...

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Chapelle Saint-Vincent-de-Paul III

<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/9225464793/" title="2012 Oct 8 Monday_52DSC_9163 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2012 Oct 8 Monday_52DSC_9163" height="800" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5509/9225464793_199e995ab0_c.jpg" width="530" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Chapelle Saint-Vincent-de-Paul</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 one of the ornate chapels of this church, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">so unassuming by its exterior, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">is seen this serene statue adorned with a crown of gold.  </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;">Under the left foot is a serpent which has been crushed.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The backdrop has been styled to appear as a fine silk fabric.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The details of this alcove are memorable.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></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;">bon dimanche</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><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;">Chapelle Saint-Vincent-de-Paul</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">95, rue de Sèvres</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 Sèvres-Babylone</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Previously posted <a href="http://parisandbeyond-genie.blogspot.com/2013/04/chapelle-saint-vincent-de-paul-ii.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://parisandbeyond-genie.blogspot.com/2013/02/chapelle-saint-vincent-de-paul.html" target="_blank">here </a></span></i></div>

Chapelle Saint-Vincent-de-Paul III

Chapelle Saint-Vincent-de-Paul In one of the ornate chapels of this church, so unassuming by its exterior, is seen this serene statue ador...

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Arc de Triomphe - au soldat inconnu

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqCrWg3SJhK4NXQ2BR0t-ugn9IIoMjmaVV9C4kAzPF2UoINuFlcP8O62yR3V7iZoI5IBzXW0HxZvepxzDVJNdMtCdEewBWYVnUva_JJt-VQIhlU8KYiAd8Htq5T8hpPBV5kJir0PEHlu8/s1600/2013+0521+Tues_150DSC_5569.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqCrWg3SJhK4NXQ2BR0t-ugn9IIoMjmaVV9C4kAzPF2UoINuFlcP8O62yR3V7iZoI5IBzXW0HxZvepxzDVJNdMtCdEewBWYVnUva_JJt-VQIhlU8KYiAd8Htq5T8hpPBV5kJir0PEHlu8/s640/2013+0521+Tues_150DSC_5569.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;">Arc de Triomphe</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;">Originally commissioned by Napoleon in 1806, he died before its completion.  It sits magnificently at the hub of twelve intersecting roads and has witnessed history.  After World War I, the returning soldiers marched triumphantly through the arch, and it became the site of the tomb of the unknown soldier.  </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 Arc de Triomphe is remembered as a memorial to all those who died in World War I.  I recently accompanied two World War II Veterans the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington Cemetery in Washington, DC.  Today we remember all those lost in wars defending our freedom.</span></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;">Arc de Triomphe</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;">Place Charles de Gaulle</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;">75008, Paris</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Arc de Triomphe - au soldat inconnu

Arc de Triomphe Originally commissioned by Napoleon in 1806, he died before its completion. It sits magnificently at the hub of twelve inte...

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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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Place des Victoires

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1cp8vh3QJ3swrAiH0P79ez702REAPd6LMcfS_U9QowFaZ04hhzdLrDaf1AntKuX3xfbAH2-R7h5jgCrT58jUkUYiUvo9pSwT0y4_k4cYMjLlCozmYgMqu6gds0-8KWxGJT05vh4Mvbhg/s1600/2012+Jan+11+1st_0156.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1cp8vh3QJ3swrAiH0P79ez702REAPd6LMcfS_U9QowFaZ04hhzdLrDaf1AntKuX3xfbAH2-R7h5jgCrT58jUkUYiUvo9pSwT0y4_k4cYMjLlCozmYgMqu6gds0-8KWxGJT05vh4Mvbhg/s640/2012+Jan+11+1st_0156.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;">Place des Victoires</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;">Inspecting the equestrian monument of Louis XIV dressed as a Roman emperor, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I almost missed the woman high on the balcony.</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;"><br /></span></i></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;"> and do not go out on a ledge</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;">Place des Victoires</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75002, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Place des Victoires

Place des Victoires Inspecting the equestrian monument of Louis XIV dressed as a Roman emperor, I almost missed the woman high on the balco...

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Jardin des Tuileries - Tigre terrasant un crocodile

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkRVnckaFaxigslkI383Td_F9g7qutVuA0lEXm79z3BnWF1YUsW9qgqws-GS5qB86No-hGhpYvGtUT7c_-dT2A_FGmRTsD1k0d2IkA_X9mLIsKJJmLKYkxaVvQ6hlraaTfbEnU4yWYoW4/s1600/2011+nov+day+4+DSC_0782.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkRVnckaFaxigslkI383Td_F9g7qutVuA0lEXm79z3BnWF1YUsW9qgqws-GS5qB86No-hGhpYvGtUT7c_-dT2A_FGmRTsD1k0d2IkA_X9mLIsKJJmLKYkxaVvQ6hlraaTfbEnU4yWYoW4/s640/2011+nov+day+4+DSC_0782.jpg" width="640" /></a></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: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Tigre terrasant un crocodile</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Auguste Cain (1873)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(Tiger overwhelming a crocodile)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Overwhelming?  I would say that he is going to "eat" the crocodile!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is perhaps my favorite of the bronze animal statues in the park.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I love the powerful image in bronze.</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;"><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: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Jardin des Tuileries - Tigre terrasant un crocodile

Tigre terrasant un crocodile Auguste Cain (1873) (Tiger overwhelming a crocodile) Overwhelming? I would say that he is going to "eat...

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Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBvMZnR-jWzX4TlBL63wL4jBwnk2U8_BQcXGgsI_R4MIMqsnV6AwlHH7viZ_UuwPGai78Up5ofnc39O9fDDLgU6wK_3gU3AwEoNVnEC0ZWwmBydaqv6PjNvPCkYjjAWpFo331RHaN6jbY/s1600/2011+april+3+DSC_0278.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBvMZnR-jWzX4TlBL63wL4jBwnk2U8_BQcXGgsI_R4MIMqsnV6AwlHH7viZ_UuwPGai78Up5ofnc39O9fDDLgU6wK_3gU3AwEoNVnEC0ZWwmBydaqv6PjNvPCkYjjAWpFo331RHaN6jbY/s640/2011+april+3+DSC_0278.jpg" width="424" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Beaumarchais">Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais</a>, watchmaker, inventor, musician, diplomat, fugitive, spy, publisher, arms dealer, financier, revolutionary, 1732-1799</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">He was perhaps most known for his theatrical works, including three Figaro plays: Le Barbier de Séville, Le Mariage de Figaro, and La Mère coupable.   </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Determined to publish Voltaire's complete works, many of which were banned, he bought the rights to the manuscripts and set up a print shop in Germany.  He was instrumental in saving many of Voltaire's works which might otherwise have been lost.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">This statue by Louis Clausade (1895) sits in a triangle in the Marais.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">Beaumarchais statue</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">Rue Saint Antoine et Rue des Tournelles</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">Métro Bastille</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75004 Paris</span></div>

Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais , watchmaker, inventor, musician, diplomat, fugitive, spy, publisher, arms dealer, financier, revolu...

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Palais Garnier - Illumination

Palais Garnier - Illumination

Always look "up" or you might miss something spectacular like this... Le Grand Escalier (The Grand Staircase) Palais Garnier

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Palais Garnier

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfnI0oM7VBRoaRcucsjW8D7H_QX_ZPk0hf1rzQI9eZkcSUPxWOCdt12k6JBV73uEvGXnwWLPB1YEGHxcqOFkuUg3cQlHY5TlC5WqWzARkldDheWh-TmAZP8FXWtCLEnh8rX_Hf-Tnipkc/s1600/2010+dec+paris+holly+IMG_3407.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579688367928424002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfnI0oM7VBRoaRcucsjW8D7H_QX_ZPk0hf1rzQI9eZkcSUPxWOCdt12k6JBV73uEvGXnwWLPB1YEGHxcqOFkuUg3cQlHY5TlC5WqWzARkldDheWh-TmAZP8FXWtCLEnh8rX_Hf-Tnipkc/s640/2010+dec+paris+holly+IMG_3407.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><div></div>At Palais Garnier, home of Opéra de Paris, the Grand Staircase will take your breath away with its opulence.  Two larger-than-life gilt statues dominate the entrance to the ampitheatre.<br /><br />Inaugurated in 1875, the architect of this magnificent building, Charles Garnier, was a previously unknown 35 year-old.  I will bring you here again...

Palais Garnier

At Palais Garnier, home of Opéra de Paris, the Grand Staircase will take your breath away with its opulence. Two larger-than-life gilt stat...

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Rainy day in Jardin des Tuileries

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHxT9XCZQ6UvW4F_ptfodVexoGW4e0Mjon4FtIocT5KSnEKCTbrxcPunOJM6yQkM5gYB3O222C-FuQTZKoyDMFpRJpEtmS7Zq1RXoDtzwM50IFDYHMPLb_hVXlK5qqPx7yZbSX1BA_NgY/s1600/2006+dec+Paris+DSC_0075+blog.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542213067202494258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHxT9XCZQ6UvW4F_ptfodVexoGW4e0Mjon4FtIocT5KSnEKCTbrxcPunOJM6yQkM5gYB3O222C-FuQTZKoyDMFpRJpEtmS7Zq1RXoDtzwM50IFDYHMPLb_hVXlK5qqPx7yZbSX1BA_NgY/s640/2006+dec+Paris+DSC_0075+blog.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></a><br />This photo was taken on a gray December day in Jardin des Tuileries near l'Orangerie, and there was no need to present it in black and white as the weather had reduced the landscape to monochrome tones. This white marble statue is one of over a hundred found in this park, bordered on one end by Place de la Concorde and on the other end by Jardin du Carrousel and the Louvre. Peter of <em>Peter's Paris</em> had a post on the <a href="http://peter-pho2.blogspot.com/2009/01/statues-tuileries-gardens-1.html"><strong>statues of Tuileries</strong></a> and noted that most of the marble ones were from the 19th Century. The marble statues in his posting appear to have been cleaned since my photo was taken.<br /><br />For those of you who saw my post "Un, deux, trois" a few days ago (Nov 18), Laurent of Daily Photo in Paris has an almost identical perspective only taken at night... have a look <a href="http://dailyphotoparis.blogspot.com/2010/11/blog-to-blog.html"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>here</strong></span></a>!

Rainy day in Jardin des Tuileries

This photo was taken on a gray December day in Jardin des Tuileries near l'Orangerie, and there was no need to present it in black and w...

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Le Corbeau et le Renard

<div align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkeQvD2BiSee1l4KnbNZyP3todw9SyPLlEByH4JABoBkNMy9BUJ5L0wH0eesgaSf93Uotuaw5cZ4-8BgWqdqRIAbSSVS1odOnNGLoxd0WWnynIPYiwhSTt-5Mo7NX758NU15EtiZzse2A/s1600/2007+dec+Paris+DSC_0052lighter.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5528102084046993586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkeQvD2BiSee1l4KnbNZyP3todw9SyPLlEByH4JABoBkNMy9BUJ5L0wH0eesgaSf93Uotuaw5cZ4-8BgWqdqRIAbSSVS1odOnNGLoxd0WWnynIPYiwhSTt-5Mo7NX758NU15EtiZzse2A/s640/2007+dec+Paris+DSC_0052lighter.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></a><br />The poet Jean de al Fontaine spent 26 years writing his version of fables, numbering 243 in total. This statue in Square du Ranelagh shows him <em><a href="http://www.aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?jdlf&i2ms&i3m.jpg">regardant a ses pieds le corbeau et le renard</a></em>, one of his revered fables.<br /><br />La Fontaine also had contemporaries who wrote fables, but what distinguishes him is that he wrote his in verse. Thanks to him, the fable became a poetic genre, with rhyme and rhythm, even if La Fontaine's fables retain some of the freedom of prose in their use of metrics. The lines of varying lengths create a rhythm that has less of a monotonous chanting quality and more of the irregularities of natural speech.<br /><br /><em>Square du Ranelagh<br />16ième arr.<br /></em><br /></div>

Le Corbeau et le Renard

The poet Jean de al Fontaine spent 26 years writing his version of fables, numbering 243 in total. This statue in Square du Ranelagh shows h...

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Le Corbeau et le Renard

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