Notre Dame ... objective 2024
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3y ago
The confinement period of course meant some interruption of the reconstruction work of the Notre Dame Cathedral, but it has now been resumed for a couple of weeks. The objective to have it pretty much finished in 2024 has been confirmed, as well as the basic idea to bring it all more or less back to what is was before the fire … no extravagant new ideas. The yellow crane we can see is the highest of this kind in Europe and was obviously offered for free by the manufacturer. The scaffolding seems to be the big issue. This involves new ones all over the place, but more specially the need ..read more
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Heureusement...
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4y ago
« Heureusement que vous étiez là » - Fortunately you were there. This is what you could read on the Eiffel Tower last night. A tribute was given by the City of Paris to everybody who has participated in making the confinement period successful. This Sunday was the last day before a period of relative relief begins. Let’s see what will happen… we must remain very careful! This means also that we were asked not to go there and look. I took the liberty of doing so, anyhow, only five minutes walk.  The idea was of course to say “thanks”. We have all been applauding every evening ..read more
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Confinement
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4y ago
I have been quite lazy when it comes to posting lately… I have of course some real excuse since a couple of weeks. I have been very careful about following the confinement rules, have hardly left my flat (my little garden has been of great help…). Even the River seems to follow the confinement rules, totally at rest! Yesterday evening I decided for a little walk, within the rules - not more than 1 km, not exceeding an hour…This is what this part of Paris looks like at the moment. Hardly anybody around… … even around the Tower and Chaillot. I like this view of the Flame with Sacré Cœur ..read more
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Capitals
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4y ago
I visited the Saint-Germain-des-Prés church again (see previous posts here and here). The restoration works are almost finished.  For some reason, this time I was especially struck by the capitals of the pillars. The carved capitals are all different and many of them have very medieval types of decorations. I understand that most of these are not the original ones, but were later copied. Some of the original ones can be found at the Cluny Museum (see posts here and here). Now, almost all of the ones in the church have again been restored and have very bright colours. I think ..read more
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Azulejos...
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4y ago
There is a new entrance to the Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau metro station. I have used the station since years… never thought about how the walls are decorated, but using the corridor leading to the new entrance (or exit), I was struck by the wall decoration (see top picture)… … and when looking around I realised that the walls of the whole station are decorated by a large number of similar ceramics.   I then learnt that they are all created by a Portuguese artist, Manuel Cargaleirio. The previous ones have been there for more than 20 years… and I have overlooked them. I also le ..read more
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A hidden church.
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4y ago
This church, so well hidden, dates from 1855 and is in a perfect Neo-Gothic style. Some modern buildings have later separated the entrance from the street. We are just in front of the “Le Bon Marché” department store (see previous post here). The church is called Saint Ignace. It’s a Jesuit church dedicated to Saint Ignace, Ignatius de Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit movement. I already talked about the fact that Ignatius together with some friends decided about the creation of the “Society of Jesus” in 1534 in a little chapel on the slopes of Montmartre (see previous post here). Ma ..read more
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Gloomy sky, but...
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4y ago
Yes, we have had some grey days…, but Paris is still there. I realised that, on this photo, you can not only see the Sacré Cœur, but also the top of the Opera Garnier, Napoleon on Place Vendôme… and, in the very front, the statue of Thomas Jefferson. I take the opportunity to wish you a Happy New Year ..read more
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A last one in 2019...
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4y ago
Almost end of the year... time to wish you all the best for 2020! Here are some of my photos, illustrating my blog-posts during 2019, most of them from Paris, but a few from Portugal, Sweden... . I hope to continue my blog also next year, but probably in a rather slow pace ..read more
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Exhibitions
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4y ago
In general, I don’t take pictures from different official art exhibitions, even if this is more and more tolerated, allowed. Here are however a few samples from exhibitions I have recently visited: Da Vinci (Louvre)… … El Greco (Grand Palais)… … and Toulouse-Lautrec (Grand Palais).  I have visited a few more – without photos. Right now you can for example see Bacon (Centre Pompidou), Degas (Musée d’Orsay), Le Douanier Rousseau (Musée Maillol), Mondrian (Musée Marmottan Monet), Soulages (Centre Pompidou and Louvre)… A little problem is the present local transport strike. Most ..read more
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Christmas show windows again, again, again...
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4y ago
As each year since I started this blog, it’s time to have a look at the Christmas show windows, concentrating on the department stores the Printemps and the Galeries Lafayette. If you wish you can look back on 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. … and there is of course the tree under the fantastic glass cupola of the Galeries Lafayette, different each year. The flowers we can see in the tree can be recognised in a large part of the Galeries Lafayette show window decorations. A few of the windows are just showing “things to buy”, of course beautifull ..read more
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