Quatre Églises, la Tour Eiffel, et le Grand Palais

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKOGfV2vdPMXz2wxVGQ2hsRFpMJ5ctvGb1pJs1Qt1gMpy66_LMKBHjNrb0fQylihRNKuRbwg_HWpxuqK8RuzC-B-2oGOwKQZSEIApb9UtpYgillL2w4uO34p550rNUnY-1w8sRWqw2dV8/s1600/2012+Oct+6+Saturday_34DSC_8628.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKOGfV2vdPMXz2wxVGQ2hsRFpMJ5ctvGb1pJs1Qt1gMpy66_LMKBHjNrb0fQylihRNKuRbwg_HWpxuqK8RuzC-B-2oGOwKQZSEIApb9UtpYgillL2w4uO34p550rNUnY-1w8sRWqw2dV8/s640/2012+Oct+6+Saturday_34DSC_8628.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Four churches plus the Grand Palais and Eiffel Tower</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Looking at the skyline from left to right from the Printemps rooftop: </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u>Notre Dame de l'Assomption </u>built in 1676, </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">The double spires of <u>Basilique Sainte Clothilde</u>, </div><div style="text-align: center;">built in the neo-Gothic style mid nineteenth century</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u>Église Saint-Louis des Invalides</u>,</div><div style="text-align: center;">commissioned by King Louis XIV in 1670</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u>Église Saint Madeleine,</u></div><div style="text-align: center;">with its 52 Corinthian columns,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The <u>Grand Palais</u>,</div><div style="text-align: center;">built for the Universal Exposition of 1900</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The<u> Eiffel Tower</u> (1889)</div><div style="text-align: center;">which at 324m. (1,063ft), was the tallest</div><div style="text-align: center;">man-made structure in the world, a title it held</div><div style="text-align: center;">for 41 years!</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 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;">Paris Skyline from Printemps</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75009, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Quatre Églises, la Tour Eiffel, et le Grand Palais

Four churches plus the Grand Palais and Eiffel Tower Looking at the skyline from left to right from the Printemps rooftop: Notre Dame de l...

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Petit Palais - Grand Palais

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj895Gj1IJFVm1c0Gx6bswxvq3OOY4d73Ing2lHuZZOXlei7CFLylcAUnRLf8bf8IldX4aaJWtCMFSW3bX1L-pvpxl1j4vC4RCmzoxCpsEBnbRtoQOAXD01uJO5S8FS8h1sZkEgJ8A4228/s1600/2014+Sept+17+Wed++++_20140917+209+DSC_8338.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj895Gj1IJFVm1c0Gx6bswxvq3OOY4d73Ing2lHuZZOXlei7CFLylcAUnRLf8bf8IldX4aaJWtCMFSW3bX1L-pvpxl1j4vC4RCmzoxCpsEBnbRtoQOAXD01uJO5S8FS8h1sZkEgJ8A4228/s1600/2014+Sept+17+Wed++++_20140917+209+DSC_8338.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Petit Palais</div><div style="text-align: center;">Eclectic </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">From the courtyard of the Petit Palais,</div><div style="text-align: center;">you can catch a glimpse of the Grand Palais </div><div style="text-align: center;">and the ornate gold ironwork at the 'Petit's' entrance.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The reflections are of the beautiful and quiet garden courtyard, </div><div style="text-align: center;">a quiet oasis in the busy city of Paris.</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;">Petit Palais</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Avenue Winston Churchill</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75008, Paris</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: left;"><br /></div>

Petit Palais - Grand Palais

Petit Palais Eclectic From the courtyard of the Petit Palais, you can catch a glimpse of the Grand Palais  and the ornate gold ironwork at t...

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Niki de Saint-Phalle - arbre de vie-fontaine

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO_n0qQkERk5JstwVu-q0719IGsSTNvyKG6WVCQp1lDDy9gV64F-7HZ1GFjKE3EUmAcRy5V2OxF864cM6HVxBatuvpCMHbY-JEsPJEu50Zn2588nGfi2xGfQDecXf7ggaSry7cPqx9HBc/s1600/2014+Sept+17+Wed++++_20140917+075+DSC_8204.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO_n0qQkERk5JstwVu-q0719IGsSTNvyKG6WVCQp1lDDy9gV64F-7HZ1GFjKE3EUmAcRy5V2OxF864cM6HVxBatuvpCMHbY-JEsPJEu50Zn2588nGfi2xGfQDecXf7ggaSry7cPqx9HBc/s1600/2014+Sept+17+Wed++++_20140917+075+DSC_8204.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Tree of life,</div><div style="text-align: center;">fountain of serpents</div><div style="text-align: center;">Grand Palais</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Niki de Saint-Phalle's mosaic fountain </div><div style="text-align: center;">was placed in the center of François-Raoul Larche's </div><div style="text-align: center;">Fontaine Miroir d'eau for the duration of  the Grand Palais exhibit.  </div><div style="text-align: center;">It is an interesting juxtaposition of the marble fountain created in 1910 </div><div style="text-align: center;">and the colorful serpent fountain of 1987.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The exhibit has been moved now to the Guggenheim Bilbao (Spain), </div><div style="text-align: center;">February 27 - June 11, 2015.</div><div style="text-align: center;">There are other examples of her work in Paris.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Does this resemble the Stravinsky Fountain?</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: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Niki de Saint-Phalle<br /> Du 17 septembre 2014 au 2 février 2015<br /> Galeries nationales du Grand Palais</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75008, Paris </span></i></span></div>

Niki de Saint-Phalle - arbre de vie-fontaine

Tree of life, fountain of serpents Grand Palais Niki de Saint-Phalle's mosaic fountain  was placed in the center of François-Raoul Larch...

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Une grand-mère et trois petits-enfants

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnesvTJxp4OYWoncpuWc7LwCxXFzR4jxU0c2rc1O4zA4KLTAlOhxVhJYPfiPubIzkmovlX_3lRhvTBbwYH5sDmBo17kZZG3_PzwOudMAVTwvTsZhX64Vmj0SIyeyxeTUWUN548UJioNBc/s1600/2014+Sept+17+Wed++++_20140917+043+DSC_8172.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnesvTJxp4OYWoncpuWc7LwCxXFzR4jxU0c2rc1O4zA4KLTAlOhxVhJYPfiPubIzkmovlX_3lRhvTBbwYH5sDmBo17kZZG3_PzwOudMAVTwvTsZhX64Vmj0SIyeyxeTUWUN548UJioNBc/s1600/2014+Sept+17+Wed++++_20140917+043+DSC_8172.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A grandmother and</div><div style="text-align: center;">three grandchildren</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">At the first hour of the opening day of Niki de Saint Phalle exhibit </div><div style="text-align: center;">at Grand Palais, we happened upon this petite grandmother </div><div style="text-align: center;">with her three grandchildren.  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">We first encountered them outside the entrance </div><div style="text-align: center;">patiently waiting for the doors to open.  </div><div style="text-align: center;">It was not a hurried run through the exhibit, </div><div style="text-align: center;">but a lingering enjoyment over the sculptures and paintings.</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;">Niki de Saint Phalle exhibit</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">17 September 2014 to 2 February 2015</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Grand Palais - Galeries Nationales</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75008, Paris   </span></i></div>

Une grand-mère et trois petits-enfants

A grandmother and three grandchildren At the first hour of the opening day of Niki de Saint Phalle exhibit  at Grand Palais, we happened upo...

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City Daily Photo Theme Day - "Landmark"

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4oleUVFQ4OTpzZqs6w_-bYb_DLo7jNQGgSwZiNnOL_TNxIRSI3EdXzw0BDIIc8bGo-vfQAqq2bHK6A4v4uxFC-PoRE7cXWdIMYTJ7qtpbqxwqDF0-iKmTTjUNtppiUttavT08lU5aYTk/s1600/2013+Nov19+Paris+_20131119+372+DSC_1071.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="740" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4oleUVFQ4OTpzZqs6w_-bYb_DLo7jNQGgSwZiNnOL_TNxIRSI3EdXzw0BDIIc8bGo-vfQAqq2bHK6A4v4uxFC-PoRE7cXWdIMYTJ7qtpbqxwqDF0-iKmTTjUNtppiUttavT08lU5aYTk/s1600/2013+Nov19+Paris+_20131119+372+DSC_1071.jpg" width="477" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">City Daily Photo Theme Day</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Landmark"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Although Paris has many "landmarks" and it was difficult to choose just one, </div><div style="text-align: center;">this photo has my favorite plus a bonus:  </div><div style="text-align: center;">la Tour Eiffel and Grand Palais.  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">With the setting sun of autumn the structures of both are seen in silhouette, </div><div style="text-align: center;">the Eiffel Tower with its familiar pattern of steel, </div><div style="text-align: center;">and the Grand Palais with its glass vault.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Would you believe that there are 6,000 tonnes of steel </div><div style="text-align: center;">in the Nave of the Grand Palais </div><div style="text-align: center;">which is more than in the whole Eiffel Tower?</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;">la Tour Eiffel, 7ième</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Grand Palais, 8ième</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">taken from the rooftop of Printemps, 9ième</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/november-2014-gallery-landmark.html" target="_blank">Click here to see city "landmarks"</a> </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">from around the world</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

City Daily Photo Theme Day - "Landmark"

City Daily Photo Theme Day "Landmark" Although Paris has many "landmarks" and it was difficult to choose just one,  this...

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La Tour Eiffel et la Grande Roue

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwZRgzrk-HT9TqETjSVULy94MZbw1iQA4T7NgtXXqNHDx5kPM7rLoQt8ygAOYxNkxahCPqbMGD648ZEJ3G2bCtYOpb1HCTIzhxd8Gq8PsHshi1m56_ML9NaY8ilXGHxafvv6_BZPhrLew/s1600/2010+Dec+4+DSC_0063.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwZRgzrk-HT9TqETjSVULy94MZbw1iQA4T7NgtXXqNHDx5kPM7rLoQt8ygAOYxNkxahCPqbMGD648ZEJ3G2bCtYOpb1HCTIzhxd8Gq8PsHshi1m56_ML9NaY8ilXGHxafvv6_BZPhrLew/s640/2010+Dec+4+DSC_0063.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;">La Tour Eiffel et la Grande Roue</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;">From this one position, without even turning your head, you can see the Eiffel Tower, the 200-ft tall ferris wheel, the Obélisque de Louxor (75 ft high) in Place de la Concorde, and you can see the flag atop the dome of the Grand Palais.</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;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">(Photo taken at the northwest end of Jardin des Tuileries)</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;">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: left;"><br /></div>

La Tour Eiffel et la Grande Roue

La Tour Eiffel et la Grande Roue From this one position, without even turning your head, you can see the Eiffel Tower, the 200-ft tall ferri...

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Petit Palais - Reflection

<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYjYf3OnX1AG_NXG1q4vFno5XnpWihRcOfcI0o6C3AkoLSW6BXQB4u75AgROvhqFF7ucYrePVYgcWur1mDwXgOtqncLvdM6f5TnI1j-d0GtUWyTGjEhczaHzU7bzrC-ClimA8pVLSIMB4/s1600/2006+dec+paris+DSC_0123.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583407382325364722" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYjYf3OnX1AG_NXG1q4vFno5XnpWihRcOfcI0o6C3AkoLSW6BXQB4u75AgROvhqFF7ucYrePVYgcWur1mDwXgOtqncLvdM6f5TnI1j-d0GtUWyTGjEhczaHzU7bzrC-ClimA8pVLSIMB4/s640/2006+dec+paris+DSC_0123.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">In the exquisite doors of <a href="http://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/"><strong>Petit Palais</strong> </a>you can see just a faint reflection of Grand Palais across the avenue. The full view of these doors is magnificent.<br /></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><div align="center"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris<br />Avenue Winston Churchill<br /></span><br /><br /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">For more reflections go to <a href="http://newtowndailyphoto.blogspot.com/2011/03/tree-designs-weekend-reflections-78.html"><strong>James' Newtown Daily Photo<br /></strong></a></span></div>

Petit Palais - Reflection

In the exquisite doors of Petit Palais you can see just a faint reflection of Grand Palais across the avenue. The full view of these doors ...

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Three Paris landmarks

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4QHJp2JsL5whqye4jWdE3OFfIUPrd8YqL17hci4vc70QhwJv4lBXRuMUzBtOY7qVgssPtd1tGw8WeqgWLA__z5n_N8lFClRR8Mf4POi2xwWKW5CNb6FkpDw8TCINLetdQv0Nhb4laoYI/s1600/2010+dec+paris+4+DSC_0067+cropped.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555580571206425698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4QHJp2JsL5whqye4jWdE3OFfIUPrd8YqL17hci4vc70QhwJv4lBXRuMUzBtOY7qVgssPtd1tGw8WeqgWLA__z5n_N8lFClRR8Mf4POi2xwWKW5CNb6FkpDw8TCINLetdQv0Nhb4laoYI/s640/2010+dec+paris+4+DSC_0067+cropped.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">From this perspective it seems that you could almost reach out and touch the obelisk... and perhaps the Grand Palais.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"></span>

Three Paris landmarks

From this perspective it seems that you could almost reach out and touch the obelisk... and perhaps the Grand Palais.

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