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Archive for October, 2006

The palmtree of Saint Severin

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This is how skilled architects coming from the middle age enhanced and disguised pillars as palmtrees.
This elegance of this lace of stones was designed on purpose to blossom our souls.
In one of the oldest church in the Quartier latin,the beauty and the harmony of this shape has still the same effect.

 

4 comments October 29th, 2006

Champs Elysees, fields of lights

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A lot of things changed since Marie de Medicis decided to create this avenue just to give her a perspective view from her windows of the Louvre.
Now we have fields of cars bringing harvests of lights. Always on the move under the wind of modernity.

This shot was taken during the nuit blanche (october, 7th ). That’s why one of the “Chevaux de Marly” is dressed in blue.

 

4 comments October 22nd, 2006

Theatre du Chatelet

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The Châtelet is a well known theater in the center of Paris. Build in the the middle of the 19th century, it was early dedicated to a special kind of entertainment called “opérette“.
It’s a kind of “easy” opera, mixing songs, speeches and sometime ballet. The most famous operette played in the Théatre du Châtelet was the “Chanteur de Mexico” (the singer from Mexico) by Luis MARIANO.

Famous choregraphers like Diaghilev or dancers like Nijinsky or Anna Pavlova helped to build a reputation of creativity for this place. Musicians like Stravinsky, Malher, Strauss, Tchaikovsky and Debussy came to lead their own creations during the early 20th century.

The inside roof was decorated on a dark red basis.

 

1 comment October 15th, 2006

The light saber of Ramses II

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This year, for the “Nuit blanche”, the obelisque of the Place de la Concorde was decorated with blue rays of light.

Yves KLEIN was a french painter. By the late fifties, he decided to use exclusively the blue known nowadays as the IKB (International Klein Blue).
He wanted to change everything in some king of art.

This event is a tribute to the man who tried to perform this event in 1958.

Anyway, this giant stone, planted in the middle of Paris, looked like a huge light saber coming from outer time.

 

3 comments October 8th, 2006

Musee Gustave Moreau

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Gustave Moreau (April 6, 1826 – April 18, 1898) was a French Symbolist painter. He was born and died in Paris.

Over his lifetime he painted over 8000 paintings, watercolors and drawings, many of which are on display in Paris at the “Musée Gustave Moreau” at 14, rue de la Rochefoucauld (IXe arrondissement) in Paris. The museum is in his former workshop, and opened to the public in 1903.

The house has three stores. Moreau used to live in the first floor and spared the rest of his time in the second and the third floors in his workshop.
A refined stair gives access to the painter’s collection.

 

4 comments October 1st, 2006