Paris (2016 - 2020)
(January 2016) View over the Seine river and Pont Louis
Philippe from Pont Marie.
(January
2016) Notre Dame.
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(January
2016) Hotel de
Sully.
(January
2016) Place des
Vosges.
(January
2016) Bassin de l‛Arsenal.
(May 2017) Conciergerie, with its
Clock Tower on the left.
(May 2017) Clock of the Clock Tower of the Conciergerie,
the oldest public clock in Paris.
(December 2017) Church of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont (15th
century), with Clovis bell tower of Lycee Henri-IV on
its right and building of Sorbonne University on its left.
(December 2017) Palais du
Luxembourg (17th century).
(December 2017) Statue of Sainte Bathilde
(~626-680) in the gardens of the Palais du
Luxembourg. An Anglo-Saxon slave purchased in York, Bathilde
became wife of Clovis II (Merovingian king of the Franks) in 649.
(January 2018) Flooding Seine river
near Eiffel Tower.
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(January 2018) Golden cupola of the Russian Orthodox
Holy Trinity Cathedral.
(January 2018) A few of the artifacts exposed in the
excellent Guimet Museum of Asian Art.
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(January 2018) Church of Saint-Germain-l′Auxerrois.
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[Statues under the porch of the main entrance. From
left to right: Saint Germain l′Auxerrois, Sainte Genevieve, and an
angel.] |
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[Chapel of the Blessed Virgin on the right-hand side of the nave.] |
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[Wooden statue of Saint Germain l′Auxerrois (15th century).] |
[Window of Saint Louis.] |
(January 2018) College des Bernardins
(created in the 13th century to educate young monks, renovated between 2004 and
2008):
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Cistercian-style nave (70m-long, 14m-wide, 32 columns). This large room had
areas for a lecture hall, a kitchen, a refectory, and a chapter house. In Cistercian
architecture superfluous ornamentation was avoided to prevent spiritual distraction.
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- The former sacristy (11m-high), which
used to connect the nave with the church. The latter was never completed and
demolished in the 19th century to create new streets.
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(January 2018) Facade of a house in the Rue Moufletard.
(February 2020) Sacre-Coeur
Basilica of Montmartre, seen under quickly changing weather.
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(February 2020) View over Paris from the Sacre-Coeur′s parvis.
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