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French Architecture…

French Friday – Our Lady

12 Aug 201612 Aug 2016
Notre Dame (Our Lady), sitting proudly in the centre of Paris holds so much wonderful history. It was started in 1163 and took almost 200 years to complete. It was…
French Friday…

French Friday – Floods

4 Jun 20164 Jun 2016
The rain pours down on Paris as the statue in the Sculpture atrium gazes pensively upwards. TJ Parish Photography© Poor Paris! What has it done to anger the Gods recently?…
April in Paris…

French Friday

27 May 201627 May 2016
The Tour Saint-Jacques is all that remains of the medieval church Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie which was tragically demolished during the French Revolution for its building materials. It now stands in a small…
April in Paris…

French Friday

5 Mar 20165 Mar 2016
The Montmartre of Van Gogh's time was a land of fields and windmills. In my ignorant youth I only thought of windmills as a "Dutch thing", but, as paintings of…
April in Paris…

French Friday – Medici Fountain

19 Feb 201619 Feb 2016
The ubiquitious Parisian pleasure grounds, the Jardin du Luxembourg was in fact modeled on the Boboli Gardens in Florence to remind the formidable Marie de Medici of her native home…
April in Paris…

French Friday

12 Feb 201612 Feb 2016
This is a view to Montmartre from the top of the Arc de Triomphe and it gives a good view of the "Boulevards" of Paris. Now the Champs-Élysées is the ubiquitous…
April in Paris…

French Friday – Motifs

15 Jan 201615 Jan 2016
It seems that there is a trend in Australia at the moment (perhaps elsewhere too) to buy or wear items with random French words on the front. I can understand…
April in Paris…

Surreal Thursday – Antelope

31 Dec 2015
In a new glass sporran Place a year old memory Take four bison right Firstly, as it is about to become 2016 I would like to say "Antelope". Having said this…
Fiction…

Gift of Memory

23 Dec 201523 Dec 2015
Waking early Christmas morning, Madame Quenelle set the table and put a cracker by the plate. A trip to the bakery for a baguette and then delicious odours of roasting…
April in Paris…

French Friday – Centre of Culture

18 Dec 201518 Dec 2015
Cee of Cee's Photography has a challenge this week to feature photographs with a centralised image so I have had fun trawling through my photos to find some that fit…
April in Paris…

French Friday – Proverbs

11 Dec 2015
I have in my possession a book entitled "101 French Proverbs". Now I am not sure if all of these proverbs are in regular use in France. I know I…
France…

Thoughts for Paris

14 Nov 201514 Nov 2015
It is Saturday in Perth Western Australia and I little knew when I published my regular "French Friday" post yesterday morning what the day would hold for Paris. We have…
France…

French Friday – St Etienne du Mont

13 Nov 201515 Nov 2015
Chaque âge a ses champions, Chaque temps a ses héros. La seule variable est la raison pour laquelle ils sont choisis. TJ Paris Translation Every age has its champions, Every…
Art…

French Friday – Louvre

31 Oct 201531 Oct 2015
Endlessly fascinating, I have been fortunate to visit the Louvre a number of times. One continuous two day stint still saw us running through galleries at the end and all…
Architecture…

French Friday

16 Oct 201516 Oct 2015
Number 1, Place du Calvaire is the final home of Maurice Neumont, a poster artist who was also a close friend of Hector Guimard. If you love the Guimard Art Nouveau entrances…

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