Fête de la Musique - Place de Furstenberg

<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/9103443649/" title="2010 June 20 DSC_0029 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2010 June 20 DSC_0029" height="800" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7415/9103443649_1be11875ba_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;">Fête de la Musique 2010</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The guitarist</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;">Perhaps one of thousands of musicians, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the solo guitarist performed in the late afternoon in Place de Furstenberg, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">only steps from Eugène Delacroix' apartment (1857).  </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;">Virginia, Marie and I encountered this guitarist in the quiet street </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and gave him our full attention.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">He willingly agreed to our photo shoot.</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;">Place de Furstenberg</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 Mabillon</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>

Fête de la Musique - Place de Furstenberg

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Église Notre Dame de Lorette

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnQjm1lipZUll32t2LeSW9ju43rxJNnIWxlbEwydNfN5mmLfY9wUpSAs5lqtzs8T3Mynd7e30h2uYW58wdJHIPE_behVv_5ovRqpVxJtohnUJEQLDmiZy5j3HI0ysm5v-zarMBxgKxG3A/s1600/2011+nov+5+DSC_0953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnQjm1lipZUll32t2LeSW9ju43rxJNnIWxlbEwydNfN5mmLfY9wUpSAs5lqtzs8T3Mynd7e30h2uYW58wdJHIPE_behVv_5ovRqpVxJtohnUJEQLDmiZy5j3HI0ysm5v-zarMBxgKxG3A/s640/2011+nov+5+DSC_0953.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;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">There has been much said about the gaudy interior of Notre Dame de Lorette, but I found it elegant, adorned with 19th Century art and a Cavaille-Col grand organ.  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The painter Eugene Delacroix lived nearby and was christened here in 1840.</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;">The other stories of this large church refer to the "kept women" of the surrounding neighborhood.  Many wealthy men of this period had mistresses as well as wives and it is said that all attended Sunday services.  </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;">Interesting, n'est-ce pas?  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That little fact was not included in the church literature I picked up in November.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">bon dimanche</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 Notre Dame de Lorette</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>18, bis rue de Chateaudun</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>75009 Par</em></span>is</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">  </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Église Notre Dame de Lorette

There has been much said about the gaudy interior of Notre Dame de Lorette, but I found it elegant, adorned with 19th Century art and a Cava...

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How did I miss this?

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqyOcDOpB36y6CGpYlUV_1Py9hrz92LRqq6kiKqosCDo3QP4ZoNOuX3LYXnAhustZOg1JPw4mK80BLNoozpQV7vVEOSdr2rBNN70kdbm2qJm8bRAOrdnXgPZ0dmuZ-XFbLPFKuIcHG1N4/s1600/DSC_0575lighter.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506160420979101026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqyOcDOpB36y6CGpYlUV_1Py9hrz92LRqq6kiKqosCDo3QP4ZoNOuX3LYXnAhustZOg1JPw4mK80BLNoozpQV7vVEOSdr2rBNN70kdbm2qJm8bRAOrdnXgPZ0dmuZ-XFbLPFKuIcHG1N4/s640/DSC_0575lighter.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><div>It was not until I posted the Sunday church, <a href="http://parisandbeyond-genie.blogspot.com/2010/08/eglise-saint-denys-du-saint-sacrement.html"><span style="color:#ffcc33;">Saint Denys du Saint Sacrement</span></a>, and I was looking for information on Eugène Delacroix that I realized the <a href="http://www.musee-delacroix.fr/"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Musée national Eugène Delacroix</strong></span></a> was in the same block as my hotel! </div><br /><br /><div></div><div>I even stopped to photograph the beautiful building, l'Institut Catholique de Paris on Rue de l'Abbaye, from the little shaded Place Furstenberg. We walked past the entrance to the museum tucked away in the corner which would have just been over my right shoulder as I snapped this photo.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Most days as we walked through Place Furstenberg, there were people playing music or just sitting with friends. There was much activity for La Fête de la Musique en juin.</div><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div align="center">Musée national Eugène Delacroix</div><div align="center">6, rue de Furstenberg</div><div align="center">6ième Arrondissement</div>

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Église Saint Paul Saint Louis -- organ pipes

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuPgdNRkD3J8AqCTkuJmcUBTiPMBcCMJLv9CwhLZ0um1vseZT90_cvQ3Z4q8Sedf87XrdP8LuHDqRzuyJ0WZ6ALR86nm-OtIOOzj6LQ6b8yWkgHrIPr2bljrpoK9BbS42i9aGYl_YuoOE/s1600/DSC_0695lighter.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502021053160559282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuPgdNRkD3J8AqCTkuJmcUBTiPMBcCMJLv9CwhLZ0um1vseZT90_cvQ3Z4q8Sedf87XrdP8LuHDqRzuyJ0WZ6ALR86nm-OtIOOzj6LQ6b8yWkgHrIPr2bljrpoK9BbS42i9aGYl_YuoOE/s640/DSC_0695lighter.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><div>This 17th century church in the Marais has a beautiful interior with a dome that rises 180 feet (55 m.) above the crossings. If you visit be sure to note the Delacroix painting and the interior of the dome which is sky blue.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I love church organs and the creative woodwork in which the pipes are housed. You can almost hear the music.....<br /></div><br /><div align="center">Église Saint Paul Saint Louis</div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">99 Rue St-Antoine<br />75004 Ils-de-France<br />Paris, France</span></div>

Église Saint Paul Saint Louis -- organ pipes

This 17th century church in the Marais has a beautiful interior with a dome that rises 180 feet (55 m.) above the crossings. If you visit be...

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