Stairway in entrance hall, U.S. ambassador's residence, Paris
I could not get a closer photo of the wonderful painting of Georgre Washington on horseback. The upper floors of the embassy residence are private.
I could not get a closer photo of the wonderful painting of Georgre Washington on horseback. The upper floors of the embassy residence are private.
The garbage cans in Paris used to be elegant affairs of corrugated metal and brass. Then someone put a bomb in one near the Arc de Triomphe. Now they all look like this. Dommage.
...deported from 1942 to 1944 because they were born Jewish, innocent victims of the Nazi barbarism and of the Vichy government. They were exterminated in death camps. More than 500 of these children lived in the 10th arrondissement.
The public schools in Paris are all mixed boys and girls now, but as recently as the 1960s separate schools were still being built.
In spite of its name, this resto on the rue Daunou had a very unAmerican larger-than-life plastic blackface minstrel hanging over its doorway for many years. In fact today, May 06, is the first time I noticed it was gone, replaced by Elvis and Ronald McDonald. I wonder who they thought the minstrel would attract?
The seal of the city of Paris shows a boat and the motto of the city is: It floats and does not sink.
The traffic lights in France are off to one side, not over the street as they are in the States. Sometimes you have to really crane your neck to see them.
The Chalet des Iles is on an island in the lake. You can take a little ferry back and forth. One of the nicest things about the island is that dogs are not allowed except in the restaurant. It's almost the only place in the Bois de Boulogne where the grass is clean.
This Green Man-- a face in leaves, a pagan survival-- is found all over Western Europe in cathedrals.
I believe this is Henri II and his queen Catherine de Medici, but I didn't write it down. Will correct after my next visit!