The Musée d’Orsay is a museum in Paris dedicated to French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography

Beside the impressionnists painting, you can discover the work of François Pompon (1856 - 1933), a French sculptor.

Born in Saulieu in Burgundy, he moved to Paris and worked as Rodin’s assistant. He became famous for his stylized animal still 1922 with L’ Ours Blanc (”the White Bear” also known as “Polar Bear in Stride “), hudge marble sculpture largely reproduced (Jardin Darcy – Dijon, for example). The original is at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris.

François Pompon may be considered as a forerunner of modern sculpture, and influenced Brancusi, among others.

Siam was the most famous elephant in Paris. Star of the Paris Zoo de Vincennes, knowned by all parisian kiddies, he was born in 1946 in Thailand and died in 1997 after a life fullfilled of adventures.

Since 2001 you can see him in the “Grande Galerie de l’Evolution” in the Museum d’histoire naturelle at the head of a band of stuffed animals.

The structure, built at the end of 19th century is a good example of metallic architecture. The restoration, made in 1994 gave to the museum the opportunity to emerge this collection from oblivion.

In the underground of the museum, scientists can examine 75 millions of different species, the memory of humanity.

Constantin Brancusi was a romanian sculptor who worked in Paris, in a workshop near Montparnasse, in the beginning of the 20th century.

In 1956, he gave to France his whole work with the drawings, the furniture and all the tools with one condition : at his death, the national modern museum of art must have to rebuild his workshop as it was.

You can know visit this place (for free) and discover most of the pieces in a special building, on the piazza of the Centre Georges Pompidou, in Paris.

On the left side you can see one of his most famous work. A simple oval shape, representing the face of a sleeping muse.

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

Unconsciously inspired by this one from Michael Kenna.

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.

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.

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.

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.