Passage Jouffroy

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOt92UNFLNKRNS0sbyVSUzfDydslWLL1U1wIJcrMEFJNN89X8lfEttbsHJuu9HnVHi7bVyADdLzBRmhyphenhyphenpAcCODeCO2ye_yLFXdOeXm8RYTtjE2xzkjK5sts5QaeB2clWKD7WwC1wtbFO4/s1600/2011+April+18+DSC_0351.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOt92UNFLNKRNS0sbyVSUzfDydslWLL1U1wIJcrMEFJNN89X8lfEttbsHJuu9HnVHi7bVyADdLzBRmhyphenhyphenpAcCODeCO2ye_yLFXdOeXm8RYTtjE2xzkjK5sts5QaeB2clWKD7WwC1wtbFO4/s640/2011+April+18+DSC_0351.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Passage Jouffroy</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">How much would you love to have</div><div style="text-align: center;">a light fixture <i>comme ça</i>?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It was not for sale and</div><div style="text-align: center;">would not have fit in my carry-on.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tant pis pour moi!</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;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Passage Jouffroy</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Boulevard Montmartre</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>75009, Paris</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Passage Jouffroy

Passage Jouffroy How much would you love to have a light fixture comme ça ? It was not for sale and would not have fit in my carry-on. Tant ...

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Passage Jouffroy VIII

<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/9627741838/" title="2011 0418 DSC_0331 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2011 0418 DSC_0331" height="800" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3712/9627741838_84440c0b32_c.jpg" width="532" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Passage Jouffroy</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;">Just adjacent to the Café Grevin (yesterday's post),</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">is one of the entrances to Passage Jouffroy.</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;">Almost two centuries old, the iron and glass ceilings remain.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There are a few shops that have not changed over the years, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">but you will note the candy shop sign which I have seen all over Europe.  </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 lamps that line both sides of the passage are my favorite detail.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>bon weekend</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Passage Jouffroy</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">10-12, boulevard Montmartre </span></i></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">9, rue de la Grange Batelière <br />75009 Paris </span></i></span>

Passage Jouffroy VIII

Passage Jouffroy Just adjacent to the Café Grevin (yesterday's post), is one of the entrances to Passage Jouffroy. Almost two centuries ...

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Café Grevin - rouge, rouge, rouge!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlpsCxaEeegfxfmeZX9qWf3zPUIt4TYXoQFGQ4NIhX3u2AXnF3VQqXh6_SYLJdvJ4Ee6v8ni8W0OHY4E-Ey6YKVbgYC-FEC5JSPU7NStu-Iy5An70aFsQJ38YRTD0LpXJUrHmr7bCunxs/s1600/2011+0418+DSC_0326.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlpsCxaEeegfxfmeZX9qWf3zPUIt4TYXoQFGQ4NIhX3u2AXnF3VQqXh6_SYLJdvJ4Ee6v8ni8W0OHY4E-Ey6YKVbgYC-FEC5JSPU7NStu-Iy5An70aFsQJ38YRTD0LpXJUrHmr7bCunxs/s640/2011+0418+DSC_0326.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;">Café Grevin</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 saturation of red at Café Grevin is enhanced </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">by a sunny afternoon</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 cafe is next door to the Musée Grevin waxworks museum, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and was designed with a domed glass ceiling in one part, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">along with wood paneling.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The decor is unusual with sorceress mirrors, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">red velvet upholstery and enchanted screens.  </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 would be quite content to sit here </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and watch the pedestrians on the boulevard.</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;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Café Grevin</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>10, boulevard Montmartre</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>75009, Paris</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Café Grevin - rouge, rouge, rouge!

Café Grevin The saturation of red at Café Grevin is enhanced  by a sunny afternoon This cafe is next door to the Musée Grevin waxworks museu...

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Les trois chevaux

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVXq8s4M4TapgI4QbWhey9a0szoF_sxM5PI9fX4xaCOFJCe0qIXBpadaNBFHYTO4vPY-vb6p9cnaKYWazklEu0XEugK9PHD4tc5iWVUFNPRhYBvcWW_oxuNxhgfB8BeOJBo5uqrb6aNA0/s1600/2011+nov+5+DSC_0998.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="498" nfa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVXq8s4M4TapgI4QbWhey9a0szoF_sxM5PI9fX4xaCOFJCe0qIXBpadaNBFHYTO4vPY-vb6p9cnaKYWazklEu0XEugK9PHD4tc5iWVUFNPRhYBvcWW_oxuNxhgfB8BeOJBo5uqrb6aNA0/s640/2011+nov+5+DSC_0998.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;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The expressions on these carousel horses remind me that it is Monday.  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The two horses on the right may have a tough week ahead.</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;">What about you?</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;">Je vous souhaite une bonne semaine!</span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Carrousel Venitien</em></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Place Saint-Pierre</em></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Montmartre</em></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>75018 Paris</em></span>

Les trois chevaux

The expressions on these carousel horses remind me that it is Monday.  The two horses on the right may have a tough week ahead. What about y...

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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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Must be a French girl -- IX

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKTcrpp9hwN2oKCqzwx6F8PkYrA8Ml3q1qaKgUoAEWWw_VEonzrIO1uBm22pD_WW1B32n64qACf0U_pz4919Hua9LT8zXTexoKNYlNR5F7CfHyF9-dfJUS-6kvJc8CbMShukIm_PovZ6Y/s1600/2011+april+5+DSC_0379.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKTcrpp9hwN2oKCqzwx6F8PkYrA8Ml3q1qaKgUoAEWWw_VEonzrIO1uBm22pD_WW1B32n64qACf0U_pz4919Hua9LT8zXTexoKNYlNR5F7CfHyF9-dfJUS-6kvJc8CbMShukIm_PovZ6Y/s640/2011+april+5+DSC_0379.jpg" width="396" xaa="true" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">As we walked in the streets surrounding Sacré Coeur, this petite French girl strolled with her parents.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;">Rue Azais</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;">Montmartre</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;">75018 Paris</span><br />

Must be a French girl -- IX

As we walked in the streets surrounding Sacré Coeur, this petite French girl strolled with her parents. Rue Azais Montmartre 75018 Paris

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Passage Jouffroy - II

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqJQk8fskaUL_E9c1ip_OstHrb-sKUr66nEeemVVihbHnIE8bzX65_yxl5VDbWmFgc1h2MqsZ7UoIz0_syvEJUmZXJD8UfZtrsVNdIWNwB51adbOlAwh1JoiiefNFNeGZbV-9ajmK_yow/s1600/2011+april+7+DSC_0376.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqJQk8fskaUL_E9c1ip_OstHrb-sKUr66nEeemVVihbHnIE8bzX65_yxl5VDbWmFgc1h2MqsZ7UoIz0_syvEJUmZXJD8UfZtrsVNdIWNwB51adbOlAwh1JoiiefNFNeGZbV-9ajmK_yow/s640/2011+april+7+DSC_0376.jpg" width="424" xaa="true" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div></div><br /><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the filtered light of Passage Jouffroy, one can sit for a moment in a chair, have a sip of café, and then buy it all when one is ready to depart.</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;">Passage Jouffroy</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">10-12, boulevard Montmartre </div>9, rue de la Grange Batelière <br />75009 Paris <br /><br /><div></div><div></div>

Passage Jouffroy - II

In the filtered light of Passage Jouffroy, one can sit for a moment in a chair, have a sip of café, and then buy it all when one is ready to...

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Musée Grevin

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihTqO_FaYZNdTBqpBdIx181gf4OZu_7Vc-tmXFBiUuA3GLNC1XAtBxx4VNEHF6sfzmHaIjNQHnCo6kCgXKpTtNVxMR6DmwXmmXC3cTgvzyesSGr2HO2c9yiRG2yCUserRAvSlcOYYzhxs/s1600/2011+april+7+DSC_0334.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644621966875349010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihTqO_FaYZNdTBqpBdIx181gf4OZu_7Vc-tmXFBiUuA3GLNC1XAtBxx4VNEHF6sfzmHaIjNQHnCo6kCgXKpTtNVxMR6DmwXmmXC3cTgvzyesSGr2HO2c9yiRG2yCUserRAvSlcOYYzhxs/s640/2011+april+7+DSC_0334.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Did you know that there was a wax museum in the center of Paris? Musée Grevin was founded in 1882 and now contains some 300 characters arranged in scenes from the history of France and modern life. Its baroque architecture includes a mirrored mirage room based on the principle of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catoptric_cistula"><em>catoptric cistula</em> </a>and a theater for magic shows.<br /><br /><br /><br />It has an ornate main entrance on Boulevard Montmartre and another entrance in Passage Jouffroy.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Hummmm.... you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Musée Grevin<br /><br />10, boulevard Montmartre<br /><br />75009, Paris<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

Musée Grevin

Did you know that there was a wax museum in the center of Paris? Musée Grevin was founded in 1882 and now contains some 300 characters arran...

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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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