Paris rouge - Macéo

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoqtWKJuc6ArAA0ozCimS0U39Dy4KcwJjlnqjvO0PF6AMnEBNkRAV_Fl8HaM0uw8qu4KCxjmySUAuuBb7cT9APKYhf1TZYQfM86_OJ0nxKxXs8ufsfD6zitH0XvYvaUQw5r-in0jfFoPU/s1600/2013+May+19+0519_4DSC_4252.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoqtWKJuc6ArAA0ozCimS0U39Dy4KcwJjlnqjvO0PF6AMnEBNkRAV_Fl8HaM0uw8qu4KCxjmySUAuuBb7cT9APKYhf1TZYQfM86_OJ0nxKxXs8ufsfD6zitH0XvYvaUQw5r-in0jfFoPU/s1600/2013+May+19+0519_4DSC_4252.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Macéo</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">This restaurant has a quiet back entrance </div><div align="center">framed in red with cherubs on either side of the doorway.  </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Perhaps a little worse for wear, </div><div align="center">the sculptures still make a dramatic presence </div><div align="center">on the quiet street behind Palais Royal.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"><em>Macéo</em></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"><em>15, rue des Petits Champs</em></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"><em>75002, Paris</em></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"><em></em></span> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"></div>

Paris rouge - Macéo

      Macéo       This restaurant has a quiet back entrance framed in red with cherubs on either side of the doorway.      Perhaps a little ...

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Jardin du Luxembourg - les nuages, les fleurs, et les anges

<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/9511805323/" title="2010 June 19 DSC_0801 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2010 June 19 DSC_0801" height="800" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7454/9511805323_4ac8a6a504_c.jpg" width="532" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jardin du Luxembourg</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;">These cherubs appear to be lifting a bowl,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> filled with flowers, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">holding it up to the sky </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">to better receive the rain</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: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jardin du Luxembourg</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: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Jardin du Luxembourg - les nuages, les fleurs, et les anges

Jardin du Luxembourg These cherubs appear to be lifting a bowl,  filled with flowers,  holding it up to the sky  to better receive the rain ...

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Place André Malraux - la fontaine de jouvence?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyIkPxlBWV5hWYRJuZMuviNb4dXMSacGZx9BhBPOWRgef9CRhPSNwziOplI4v_mPG9wRt55KCwQqCdn0h2G3C1jwDqYhSOOidKqhctoBzncnD4zU_aYqBnPd2r9Jjw7xnAiyv2-Lw-iRc/s1600/2011+April+18+day+7+DSC_0454.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyIkPxlBWV5hWYRJuZMuviNb4dXMSacGZx9BhBPOWRgef9CRhPSNwziOplI4v_mPG9wRt55KCwQqCdn0h2G3C1jwDqYhSOOidKqhctoBzncnD4zU_aYqBnPd2r9Jjw7xnAiyv2-Lw-iRc/s640/2011+April+18+day+7+DSC_0454.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 fountain of youth?</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;">There are at least three cherubs in this fountain of changing colors, but alas...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I do not believe that the water will make you young.</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;">Surely there is a reason that the French women are so beautiful and youthful.</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: 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: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Place André Malraux</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">et Rue St-Honoré</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>

Place André Malraux - la fontaine de jouvence?

The fountain of youth? There are at least three cherubs in this fountain of changing colors, but alas... I do not believe that the water wil...

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Église Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-de-Passy - la crèche

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8500/8276899042_3dd97e9f28_c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="528" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8500/8276899042_3dd97e9f28_c.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;">Église Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-de-Passy</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;">Although the works of art, the chapels, the marble altar, a great organ, and architecture of four centuries are well-documented, it is this quiet corner at the rear of the church which caught my attention.</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;">Candles and camels, angels and cherubs, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">all surround the manger, completed by a "star in the east."</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;"><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;">Église Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-de-Passy</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">10, rue de l'Annonciation</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75016, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Métro La Muette </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Église Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-de-Passy - la crèche

Église Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-de-Passy Although the works of art, the chapels, the marble altar, a great organ, and architecture of four centur...

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Église Saint-Vincent-de-Paul de Paris III

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8339/8237018588_9aecd8aab5_c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8339/8237018588_9aecd8aab5_c.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Église Saint-Vincent-de-Paul de Paris</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;">One could spend many hours observing the beauty of this church<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">:</span>  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The imagery, the architecture, the repeating patterns, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the organs, the artwork...</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;">I wonder just how many angels and cherubs there might be.  </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: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><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;"><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: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Église Saint-Vincent-de-Paul de Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Place Franz-Liszt</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75010, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Métro Poissonnière</span></i></div>

Église Saint-Vincent-de-Paul de Paris III

Église Saint-Vincent-de-Paul de Paris One could spend many hours observing the beauty of this church :   The imagery, the architecture, the ...

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Henri Sabatier - architecte

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT8b-58xgUp1N0lsRGRPLWCTGiRbkeuGjQrg7U8uT6TLMhI5AtLdBYsOLnu3ZWl2j4Bh-s6tpyUVeN3OgW-vc-_4ebRHtZUnVaCgkePNQFwGtQe5bxwD4v6RrEXKM6dkCkS9RSsXjawBk/s1600/2012+Oct+9+Tuesday_4DSC_9336.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT8b-58xgUp1N0lsRGRPLWCTGiRbkeuGjQrg7U8uT6TLMhI5AtLdBYsOLnu3ZWl2j4Bh-s6tpyUVeN3OgW-vc-_4ebRHtZUnVaCgkePNQFwGtQe5bxwD4v6RrEXKM6dkCkS9RSsXjawBk/s640/2012+Oct+9+Tuesday_4DSC_9336.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;">280 Rue Saint-Honoré</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;">I walk past this building many times daily when I am in Paris.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What caused me to look up and see the sweet face of a cherub this time?</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;">There was not a date on the building that I could see, and on the other end of this transom was another cherub with his back turned to the street and the notation of the engineering company, "Canal et Schuhl"</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>(l'anniversaire d'Auguste Rodin)</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">280 Rue Saint-Honoré</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 Palais Royal-Musée du Louvre ou</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Métro Pyramides</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Today I join Pauita's <u>Dreaming of France</u> meme right <a href="http://paulita-ponderings.blogspot.com/2012/11/dreaming-of-france-mont-st-michel.html" target="_blank">here</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

Henri Sabatier - architecte

280 Rue Saint-Honoré I walk past this building many times daily when I am in Paris. What caused me to look up and see the sweet face of a ch...

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Église Saint Étienne du Mont - l'orgue

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEk1fM5uPYTqh-aujNqagybeHJuKj_GeP_hxofZ-L4P1XAGbvSCSsq6-h2xaotfNYUUk5pIIFszAHbghv8P8otYVxGMF_53GauiMtPrjBkD3JH33h9Jpy9v3w9Ya0cosnQEKtPYvRe-Fk/s1600/2012+Jan+13+1st_0634.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" kda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEk1fM5uPYTqh-aujNqagybeHJuKj_GeP_hxofZ-L4P1XAGbvSCSsq6-h2xaotfNYUUk5pIIFszAHbghv8P8otYVxGMF_53GauiMtPrjBkD3JH33h9Jpy9v3w9Ya0cosnQEKtPYvRe-Fk/s640/2012+Jan+13+1st_0634.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;">This masterpiece of carving is the work of Jean Buron of 1633, encasing the organ of Saint Etienne du Mont.  The organ itself was built by the master organ builder Pierre le Pescheur and completed in 1636.  Over the centuries, some of the most reknown organ builders in the world made revisions to this organ, from Clicquot to Cavaillé-Coll, Beuchet-Debierre, and several more.</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;">Cherubs and angels surely would make a joyful noise here.</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: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>bon dimanche</em></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: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>(pour mon amie, Marie)</em></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: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Église Saint Étienne du Mont</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>1 place Ste-Geneviève</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em><span style="font-family: Times;">75005, Paris</span></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Église Saint Étienne du Mont - l'orgue

This masterpiece of carving is the work of Jean Buron of 1633, encasing the organ of Saint Etienne du Mont.  The organ itself was built by t...

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Église Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKvsnes2DCEHmUufZVOOIVNqqJgFvCFuhRhAgmT55bqNWZXSkrOldbOwLnE9LR9qC3Y2gl35C9tdUCBhmplpgRwd6GR_OofCRoRUUXzv4DAY_rD5tlY8MGnrevqSgqX5zMqddJOJZnPtY/s1600/2012+jan+16++2nd_0772.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img aea="true" border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKvsnes2DCEHmUufZVOOIVNqqJgFvCFuhRhAgmT55bqNWZXSkrOldbOwLnE9LR9qC3Y2gl35C9tdUCBhmplpgRwd6GR_OofCRoRUUXzv4DAY_rD5tlY8MGnrevqSgqX5zMqddJOJZnPtY/s640/2012+jan+16++2nd_0772.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;">Perfectly sculpted, the three cherubs reach to the heavens</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 align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>bon dimanche</em></span><div align="left" 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>Église Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em><span style="font-family: Times;">2, place du Louvre</span></em></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;"><br /></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

Église Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois

Perfectly sculpted, the three cherubs reach to the heavens bon dimanche Église Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois 2, place du Louvre 75001, Paris...

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Église Saint Étienne du Mont - Angels on High

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkwNKdtI4fcVscEcewTi59OvMi54WuPOQeHA6A7kPOZVfk5Heb41nfKAgj4PKztUZOxFgDrVjKimFFposJsKJto8gz2KWPLzR9l3L7WLl2aEMAE62rmhlnBlIlOknYMp601YFlgwqcpB8/s1600/2011+april+5+DSC_0132.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkwNKdtI4fcVscEcewTi59OvMi54WuPOQeHA6A7kPOZVfk5Heb41nfKAgj4PKztUZOxFgDrVjKimFFposJsKJto8gz2KWPLzR9l3L7WLl2aEMAE62rmhlnBlIlOknYMp601YFlgwqcpB8/s640/2011+april+5+DSC_0132.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b>Angels on high</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">I do not believe that anyone has counted the angels and cherubs in Église Saint Étienne du Mont, but there are many, perhaps hundreds.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">I have brought you here before and will bring you again.  This bright, airy church is filled with details, history, angels, and light.  I will have to return for a concert.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Église Saint Étienne du Mont</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1, Place Ste Geneviève</span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75005 Paris</span></span></div>

Église Saint Étienne du Mont - Angels on High

Angels on high I do not believe that anyone has counted the angels and cherubs in Église Saint Étienne du Mont, but there are many, perhaps ...

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Église Saint-Étienne du Mont - l'orgue

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDC4gUFZG7Q93iwLBa2Qa1nDKPohXdLPFNnNwMpeYGubO0r5_RIhcGVYCpuQuHN5WdZS3endBZfUkNEYPXeX4yetUH9ZVGkrc8gNzZADmctPaYpI0wN2-BWqszIqnHDNlFvVZzk6Nnd7I/s1600/2011+april+5+DSC_0066.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632739676222424594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDC4gUFZG7Q93iwLBa2Qa1nDKPohXdLPFNnNwMpeYGubO0r5_RIhcGVYCpuQuHN5WdZS3endBZfUkNEYPXeX4yetUH9ZVGkrc8gNzZADmctPaYpI0wN2-BWqszIqnHDNlFvVZzk6Nnd7I/s640/2011+april+5+DSC_0066.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The </span><a href="http://www.paris-walking-tours.com/saintetiennedumont.html"><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>organ of Saint-Étienne du Mont</strong> </span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">is a marvel of architectural design and carving, dating back to the early 17th Century. It would be a challenge to count the cherubs and angels in this church, starting here with the organ. If you decide to count, do not forget to look at the ceiling for the little cherub faces.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I have shown this church before, </span><a href="http://parisandbeyond-genie.blogspot.com/2011/05/eglise-saint-etienne-du-mont.html"><strong><span style="font-family:arial;">here</span></strong></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> and </span><a href="http://parisandbeyond-genie.blogspot.com/2011/05/eglise-saint-etienne-du-mont-ii.html"><strong><span style="font-family:arial;">here</span></strong></a><span style="font-family:arial;">. It is just across the square from the Parthenon in the 5ième arrondissement.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Bon dimanche<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Église Saint-Étienne du Mont</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">1, place Ste-Geneviève</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"><em>(Crikey, Cadel!)</em></span>

Église Saint-Étienne du Mont - l'orgue

The organ of Saint-Étienne du Mont is a marvel of architectural design and carving, dating back to the early 17th Century. It would be a ch...

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Lonesome cherub

<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN1agL8SIyWk_RVvB-e8dIrnu1EZA1Od1U-GvMoDY_LS8qAEh3n_p4fZjRiV4BJWT2c0z_aawfbgiHp2_t6vJ5TWgd5ifo9frciIh1Q2LAxldwjvqZVzYslTyPstV40jE6MHF11zIbAkM/s1600/2010+0620+Paris+DSC_0837blog.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530263842672283794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN1agL8SIyWk_RVvB-e8dIrnu1EZA1Od1U-GvMoDY_LS8qAEh3n_p4fZjRiV4BJWT2c0z_aawfbgiHp2_t6vJ5TWgd5ifo9frciIh1Q2LAxldwjvqZVzYslTyPstV40jE6MHF11zIbAkM/s640/2010+0620+Paris+DSC_0837blog.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">How many hundreds of little cherubs are to be found in the cimeteries of Paris?</span></div>

Lonesome cherub

How many hundreds of little cherubs are to be found in the cimeteries of Paris?

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