Tout le monde aime des baguettes!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyhqk2S1fAK1oJ2VuL7SPjugO7-_GZvEYdZ6DAFlwZiRK2v1V3RNMT9bvSf-NHCCDoCGgRvAVOQGnzSvNjgl4S9KTZjOo0Jd7NZgTZd5e1cYqycbWHTy-8r9VrxdtPAgX1unOqWBatFYw/s1600/2013+May+18+0518+Sat_25DSC_3894.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyhqk2S1fAK1oJ2VuL7SPjugO7-_GZvEYdZ6DAFlwZiRK2v1V3RNMT9bvSf-NHCCDoCGgRvAVOQGnzSvNjgl4S9KTZjOo0Jd7NZgTZd5e1cYqycbWHTy-8r9VrxdtPAgX1unOqWBatFYw/s1600/2013+May+18+0518+Sat_25DSC_3894.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;">Mid-morning errand...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Does she go daily to bring back the baguettes?  </div><div style="text-align: center;">How is it that I have not seen her before?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It pays to keep one's eyes open in Paris</div><div style="text-align: center;">...and camera ready</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;">Rue des Petits Champs</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;">75002, Paris</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></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Tout le monde aime des baguettes!

Mid-morning errand... Does she go daily to bring back the baguettes?   How is it that I have not seen her before? It pays to keep one's ...

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Place Pierre Lafue - Alfred Dreyfus

<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/10771030393/" title="2012 Oct 7 Sun am_60DSC_8898 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2012 Oct 7 Sun am_60DSC_8898" height="800" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3830/10771030393_a042196f89_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;">Alfred Dreyfus</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 midst of a small square (Place Pierre Lafue) on Boulevard Raspail we stopped our Vélibs and took several photos of this Giacometti-style porous bronze with a pigeon on its head.</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 seemed an interesting sculpture in an inauspicious location proved to have an intriguing story which played out over a century ago, the Dreyfus Affair.  This sculpture was created in 1986 by Louis Mitelberg (TIM) and shows "Captain Dreyfus" with his broken sword.  To read more about the story, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/france-still-haunted-by-the-spectre-of-dreyfus-1138389.html" target="_blank">click here</a>.</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-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Place Pierre Lafue</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;">116, 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;">75006, Paris</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Place Pierre Lafue - Alfred Dreyfus

Alfred Dreyfus In the midst of a small square (Place Pierre Lafue) on Boulevard Raspail we stopped our Vélibs and took several photos of thi...

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Un bateau et la Seine

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhINDZUwinp-tGUBuOUQBuSLsUQR4SWYChyphenhyphenL-pt95NBc209dV1GzxrsHCm0zL4_PDZ5-rpXKlvQ_CVLYR18DHRSr8htSk4k89NAGHRUhydPm9M8uDlZJg6oFlRUVw8N6_jh8h9MQtELPEA/s1600/2012+Oct+9+Tuesday_298DSC_9632.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhINDZUwinp-tGUBuOUQBuSLsUQR4SWYChyphenhyphenL-pt95NBc209dV1GzxrsHCm0zL4_PDZ5-rpXKlvQ_CVLYR18DHRSr8htSk4k89NAGHRUhydPm9M8uDlZJg6oFlRUVw8N6_jh8h9MQtELPEA/s640/2012+Oct+9+Tuesday_298DSC_9632.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 boat and the Seine</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;">We see here the captain at the bow of the boat </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(driving while talking on the phone) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and perhaps two lovers at the stern.  </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;">Since this photo was taken from the quai, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">there was not an opportunity to ask questions or to discover the story</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;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span class="hps">C'est un mystère!</span></span></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;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span class="hps">La Seine</span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span class="hps">Quai de la Mégisserie</span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span class="hps">75001, Paris</span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div>

Un bateau et la Seine

A boat and the Seine We see here the captain at the bow of the boat  (driving while talking on the phone)  and perhaps two lovers at the ste...

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Musée Grevin - a ghost?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOSY8KufEgkkazZxVRmYk1l-_P4WyjQFKvJ6hWtHF9SazijuRJ54zouGWAKdUCnUGRFQPAmIg1IYr8N5d7emhyphenhyphenvGrUfAQWSb4zK_Df50X77EYLEa0ffdbqUWh4ih5Tyk56rsvN1R0qZDs/s1600/DSC_0336+-+blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOSY8KufEgkkazZxVRmYk1l-_P4WyjQFKvJ6hWtHF9SazijuRJ54zouGWAKdUCnUGRFQPAmIg1IYr8N5d7emhyphenhyphenvGrUfAQWSb4zK_Df50X77EYLEa0ffdbqUWh4ih5Tyk56rsvN1R0qZDs/s640/DSC_0336+-+blog.jpg" width="424px" /></a></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;">At Musée Grevin, this figure peeking from behind the velvet curtains</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">seemed just spooky enough for our Halloween</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am not sure who inspired this wax figure.  It is a wax figure, right?</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;">Musée Grevin</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Passage Jouffroy</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Boulevard Montmartre</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">75009 Paris</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div>

Musée Grevin - a ghost?

At Musée Grevin, this figure peeking from behind the velvet curtains seemed just spooky enough for our Halloween I am not sure who inspired ...

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Passage Jouffroy - un mystère?

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzuyQq1LPSXhxTLWgJeTZn886FUX3F_CCCxI7vg3LlDyVS5dIOpihni_DklSR3e01L3dUJKlk45hAYVKSj6IKZrH1TExC85njBSqtRATNDQQLNYeQ2U5oC5SSVM0OOhtb4lwVITqn-Boc/s1600/2011+april+7+DSC_0338-1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5641266789520916690" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzuyQq1LPSXhxTLWgJeTZn886FUX3F_CCCxI7vg3LlDyVS5dIOpihni_DklSR3e01L3dUJKlk45hAYVKSj6IKZrH1TExC85njBSqtRATNDQQLNYeQ2U5oC5SSVM0OOhtb4lwVITqn-Boc/s640/2011+april+7+DSC_0338-1.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">As one looks up* in Passage Jouffroy, the iron and glass ceiling catches the eye along with the lamps, ever-present for almost two centuries. For what purpose is that door and where might it lead? Is there anyone looking out over the many pedestrians of the passage each day?</span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">If it seems that I am suggesting it is haunted or slightly askew, I have been reading Deborah Lawrenson's wonderful book, <strong>The Lantern,</strong> just published by HarperCollins in the USA. A novelist and journalist, she and her husband live in a crumbling house in the Luberon which is the inspiration for her captivating, haunting book. You can check out her blog </span><a href="http://deborah-lawrenson.blogspot.com/"><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">here</span></strong></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. </span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">*always remember to look up</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Passage Jouffroy<br /><br />10-12, boulevard Montmartre<br /><br />9, rue de la Grange Batelière<br /><br />75009 Paris<br /><br />

Passage Jouffroy - un mystère?

As one looks up* in Passage Jouffroy, the iron and glass ceiling catches the eye along with the lamps, ever-present for almost two centuries...

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