Château de Chambord - une grande façade!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzIiQQ6DPx_fqGBSz5aXLQq2k6UsXC6ckeJpQ-Azo3NtAtufB36BdOhbT73Y4oHwVdJ5U7EBVFbv1jfyLyFLMGdYYfkEZZrBvVUu9H7oj5CCc22Pv_6Mps5UEm6OMQF0_GBDikmsCglqI/s1600/2010+0617+Paris+DSC_0462.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzIiQQ6DPx_fqGBSz5aXLQq2k6UsXC6ckeJpQ-Azo3NtAtufB36BdOhbT73Y4oHwVdJ5U7EBVFbv1jfyLyFLMGdYYfkEZZrBvVUu9H7oj5CCc22Pv_6Mps5UEm6OMQF0_GBDikmsCglqI/s640/2010+0617+Paris+DSC_0462.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;">Chambord</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">a very grand façade</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;">Constructed for King François I in the early years of the Sixteenth Century, this chateau features 440 rooms, 282 fireplaces, and 84 staircases.  In the center hall is a grand double-helix open staircase spanning three floors.  The château also features 128 meters of façade, more than 800 sculpted columns and an elaborately decorated roof. When François I<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_I" title="François I"></a> commissioned the construction of Chambord, he wanted it to look like the skyline of Constantinople.  </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;">In 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the art collections of the Louvre and Compiègne museums were stored at the Château de Chambord.<br /> </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;">This is my contribution to the City Daily Photo Theme Day - façade</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com/2013/06/july-theme-day-facade.html" target="_blank">Click here</a> to see all the others from around the world.</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;">Château de Chambord</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chambord, France</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">(an easy day trip out of Paris to the Loire Valley)</span></i></div>

Château de Chambord - une grande façade!

Chambord a very grand façade Constructed for King François I in the early years of the Sixteenth Century, this chateau features 440 rooms, 2...

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Église Saint-Pierre de Montrouge

<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/9169872889/" title="2012 Oct 7 Sun am_40DSC_8878 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2012 Oct 7 Sun am_40DSC_8878" height="800" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5513/9169872889_e1a74061b9_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;">Église Saint-Pierre de Montrouge</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 Nineteenth Century Paris church was the work of architect Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer between 1865 and 1870 during Haussmann's redesign of the city.  The elegant Neo-Romanesque and Byzantine influences can be seen in the architectural design.  Vaudremer was inspired by the Roman basilicas and churches, winning the </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>lauréat du premier grand</i> of the Prix de Rome in 1854.  He resided at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici between 1855 and 1858.</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;">It would appear that the church has recently undergone cleaning and perhaps renovation.  The "fresh-scrubbed" look takes out the surface contrast giving the structure a flat, two-dimensional appearance.  I did not go in, but have it on my list for a future trip.</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><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">bon dimanche</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;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Saint-Pierre de Montrouge <br />82, avenue du Général Leclerc <br />75014, Paris<br />Métro : Alésia </span></i></span></div>

Église Saint-Pierre de Montrouge

Église Saint-Pierre de Montrouge This Nineteenth Century Paris church was the work of architect Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer between 1865 ...

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Le Tour de France 100

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFUpAX_i-tSUXN_80uopQSaZXjkRqbYzM8CST3IlXFD-WqniWSzJzCCBF9qlkRzfDy3KXOsDX5JC5Q0B8br1JQEio3ugGV90a83RulcyC4-wKPRgdIxeY1Vp-LZeBLn1CfRNCGct6fs4k/s1600/2012+Oct+3+Wednesday_200DSC_8076.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFUpAX_i-tSUXN_80uopQSaZXjkRqbYzM8CST3IlXFD-WqniWSzJzCCBF9qlkRzfDy3KXOsDX5JC5Q0B8br1JQEio3ugGV90a83RulcyC4-wKPRgdIxeY1Vp-LZeBLn1CfRNCGct6fs4k/s640/2012+Oct+3+Wednesday_200DSC_8076.jpg" width="616" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">100 Years</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Le Tour</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;">Le Tour de France begins today and looks back to the first Tour in 1903.  Three grueling weeks of mountains and time trials, 2,000 miles, 23 stages, all culminating with a finish on the Champs-Elysées.</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 Tour de France has visited every region of Metropolitan France except Corsica, but the opening stages this year begin on Corsica as part of the celebrations for the 100th edition of the race.</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;">If you have no interest in the sport, you would surely love the countryside, the little villages, the chateaus, the mountain ridges, the coastlines.  Take a look at the towns and villages of the 2013 Tour.  There is much to be seen... and, it lasts for three weeks! </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;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Le Tour de France</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;">2013, June 29 - July 21</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;">Corsica and France</span></i></span></div>

Le Tour de France 100

100 Years Le Tour Le Tour de France begins today and looks back to the first Tour in 1903.  Three grueling weeks of mountains and time trial...

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