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These frames are from July, 2012. Three were converted from color to b&w (ND pano, Victor Hugo's crypt and Sainte-Chapelle detail). The other b&w images are IR. Nothing is for sale.
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Pont Neuf, Ile de la Cite

This is from the apartment window. In the final frame on the back page, we are on the elevated area at right. Early one Saturday morning, the bridge was filled with costumed actors and antique autos for a fin de siecle movie. As much as I wanted to stop and photograph them, I didn't, encouraged to move along, s'il vous plait, by les gendarmes.
Henri IV, La Samaritaine

I'm pleased the French drive on the right (as in "correct") side of the road. Might that have something to do with England being opposite? At least it's less perilous for us careless, distracted Yank pedestrians. This is also from  the apartment.
Quai des Grands Augustins

...in the 6th arrondissement, la rive gauche ("left bank")... The apartment is at right.
Pont Neuf

The equestrian statue of Henri IV was placed in 1618, destroyed during the revolution and replaced in 1818. In about 1836, Louis Daguerre made it the subject of what may have been his first daguerreotype. Legend holds the first people ever photographed were included, so, if true, "people" photography's slow-motion "big bang" began here. The huge La Samaritaine department store (now closed) looms across the river. In 1985, after nine years negotiation for permission, Christo wrapped Pont Neuf with about 40,000 square meters of fabric.
Notre Dame de Paris
Notre Dame

...one of the most photographed churches in the world...
Notre Dame

The formidable fellow at left, cradling his weapon, had just declined the smiling photographer's entreaty to join in the photo of his wife. This was the only occasion of an overt military presence that I noticed at any of the shrines.
petite fille et grand-pere

...a serendipitous moment for me and a personal favorite...
Notre Dame frieze pano

An illiterate parishioner could quickly and emphatically get the picture here as he entered the church. To my eye, the forlorn fellows being led away include members of the clergy and royalty and I've wondered if the sculptors were editorializing, possibly at someone's direction. Since the church was heavily damaged and desecrated during the revolution, these are likely reproductions. Were the faces known when the church was built, or these produced? Michelangelo painted right into hell the cardinal who coerced him to paint the Sistine Chapel! Were the sculptors here as bold? Note here also that angels can easily stand or sit parallel to the ground...
Pont Neuf, Ile de la Cite

This is from the apartment window. In the final frame on the back page, we are on the elevated area at right. Early one Saturday morning, the bridge was filled with costumed actors and antique autos for a fin de siecle movie. As much as I wanted to stop and photograph them, I didn't, encouraged to move along, s'il vous plait, by les gendarmes.
Pont Neuf, Ile de la Cite

This is from the apartment window. In the final frame on the back page, we are on the elevated area at right. Early one Saturday morning, the bridge was filled with costumed actors and antique autos for a fin de siecle movie. As much as I wanted to stop and photograph them, I didn't, encouraged to move along, s'il vous plait, by les gendarmes.
Pont Neuf, Ile de la Cite

This is from the apartment window. In the final frame on the back page, we are on the elevated area at right. Early one Saturday morning, the bridge was filled with costumed actors and antique autos for a fin de siecle movie. As much as I wanted to stop and photograph them, I didn't, encouraged to move along, s'il vous plait, by les gendarmes.
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