Sunday afternoon on Bridge Simone de Beauvoir. This pedestrian bridge became quickly a family walk for parisians.

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.

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.

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.

This year, the Hôtel de la Trémoille, kept the attention of the visitors. This place, build at the beginning of the century by Ernest SANSON accomodates the Serbian embassy since 1936.

Honoré de Balzac is one of the most famous french writer. He lived, between 1840 et 1847, in a house at Passy, a small village now included in Paris. This mansion became a Museum where you can see the his library and the genealogy of all of the caracters he invented.
The legend says he had two ways to escape from the sheriff’s officer coming to claim for debts. The old caves on the top from where he could gain access to near building’s cellars and the bottom door leading to the “rue basse”, nowadays rue Berton.

At the very end of the garden, there is a bust of the writer, under the foliage. Balzac seems to observe people from his retreat, as the witness of the Parisian society he described so precisely in his prolific work.

The Quai Branly Museum features indigenous art, cultures and civilisations from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.
It contains over 300,000 objects

Oh, by the way, it’s forbidden to take photos inside, especially when you got a good quality camera. “you can buy photos in the shop if you need some” the man told me. Never ever !

If you have the choise between the Louvre or this museum, choose the Louvre. Same price (8,50 €) but 10 times more interesting.