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Château de Vincennes

Friends Eric and Autumn

Chateau grounds

The Chateau's "keep," alternately royal palace and prison

Top security (for medieval times)

Among the famous political prisoners held here was the Marquis de Sade

Chapel

This sanctuary inside Château de Vincennes is the predecessor to Sainte-Chapelle on the Île de la Cité

The sanctuary is fresh from extensive renovation after storm damage

Front nave

The nearly continuous walls of stained glass render the brightest gothic sanctuary I have ever seen

Peculiar classicism in the mix

Centre Pompidou in the Marais arondissement

Entrance to Centre Pompidou

Where's Autumn? (The pink sort of blends.)

Close-up, these look...nasty

Centre Pompidou is famously color-coded to represent the natural elements at work in its infrastructure

Centre Pompidou's quirky restaurant

View from Centre Pompidou

Centre Pompidou's minimal halls (and, at least for me, poor layout)

"La grande ferme" by Dado

A view of Sacré-Coeur from Centre Pompidou

Musée des Archives

Hôtel de Ville

Baroque architecture (I think) rather like my city's Old Executive Office Building next to the White House

So ingrained in France's energy-efficient culture that it's scratched and tagged

Louvre side entrance

Louvre from interior courtyard

Louvre main plaza

I.M. Pei's infamous but largely functional "skylight"

Really, it succeeds at minimizing obstruction

Looking up

Italian masters

Salome and John the Baptist

Some ugly chick I found

For my money, the painting behind the throng is worth more attention (Veronese's "The Wedding at Cana")

"L'Ete" by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

A former royal palace, the Louvre's "art occupation" is underestimated as a gift to society, violative of monarchical province, and a better use of the antiquated largesse!

Henry's insane cheapass sibling

The Louvre wonderfully casts natural light

One of many adjoining atriums

"Winged Victory"

"Winged Victory" sans tourist throng

Rome meets rococco

Shirtless old dude tries to get everyone's attention

"Captif" by Michelangelo

Antonio Canova's "Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss"

Venus from her more, um, perky angle

Opening soon, this translucent canopy in the Islamic wing will be the boldest modern addition since the pyramid (though inevitably accompanied with much less whining)

There are two of these stunning atriums that form a sort of terrace into upper floors

Material contrast

Bathed in light

Napoleon III's so-called "apartment" (and if he were in the rental market, this dining table would befit a whole apartment building, yes?)

Relentless excess

One chandelier wasn't enough

One of many grand transitions

Flemish still-life gorging

A view of Sacre-Coeur from the Louvre

You can almost hear the giggling

A sort of petite Rosetta Stone

The so-called "Medieval Louvre"

Getting spanked?

Quintessential Paris

Christmas market along Avenue des Champs-Élysées

Weiner carousel

The better alternative to drab strings of light at Christmastime

Notre Dame at Christmastime

Notre Dame's iconic stained glass

La Sainte-Chapelle

Upper and lower

The stunning upper level

Really one of the most beautiful interior spaces I've ever seen...

Rare to see no organ pipes

Stained glass detail

The space closes for entry every day at 1:00 p.m., but already-there patrons are allowed to stay behind - and for a half hour, I had the whole place to myself!

Vertical panorama

Gates to the Palais de Justice, with Sainte-Chapelle looming overhead

Palais de Justice

"Le porteur de l'esprit de la baleine échouée" by Julie Faure-Brac

"Bêtes Off" exhibition in the Conciergerie, a former prison

Matthew Barney-esque unicorn crustacean?

I knew just what to do: went in, pulled Hemmingway's "Moveable Feast" from the shelf, read his chapter on this very bookstore for ex-pats

Park sculpture superimposed against Notre Dame across the Seine

More of the sculpture superimposed over the rear of Notre Dame across the Seine

Reminds me of the bald-headed Muñoz sculptures back home at the Hirshhorn

Dome of the Pantheon

Looking mostly up

Cheating! (She fixes the timepiece regularly; was this always "broken"?)

Voltaire's burial in the crypt of the Pantheon

Legendary lighthouse

One of many "city halls," this one for the Latin Quarter

We need these back home! All over town, they sell highbrow packaged frozen foods, a step up from our Trader Joe's

Saint-Étienne-du-Mont

Maurice Duruflé was the organist here for most of his life

Votives for the dead

Moon and gargoyles keeping watch

"City hall" for the Marais arondissement, across from my hotel window

Montmarte street

Good place to be a ghost

One among hundreds, along a Montmarte staircase

Iconic Metro station entrance in Montmarte

Autumn has found just a sign for vin chaud (hot wine with mulled spices), but the search goes on for drinking...

And the quest ends a few blocks away at Amelie's haunt

Vin chaud, coming right up

The Occupy movement is called Les Indignees in France

View from my boutique hotel that wrapped around this corner

Église Saint-Eustache

Candlelit crèche

Pick your saint

Petit Arc de Triomphe

Conservatory of arts and letters in the Marais

More than just the adjoining museum, it is also a prestigious college

Original CRAY 2 supercomputer

HAL 9000's great great great grandfather

Predecessor to copper traces on PCBs

Not the computers we know

I heart analog gauges

Le pendule de Foucault

Who's that at the end of the hall of wonders?

An original cast by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi of our Lady Liberty

Musée Carnavalet

Stunning art deco

The most interesting decorative arts I saw in Paris

Couldn't figure this out!

Opéra Bastille

A vision to fall in love with

Place des Vosges

View from Victor Hugo's apartment

Definitely not Haussmanian

Flower shop in the Marais

It's easy to forget that flower shops like this actually exist

Too pretty to eat

Desserts all day

Paul was here too

Église Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis

Dome of St. Paul's

The most distinctive thing to my eyes about churches in France, of every style from gothic to romanesque, was the gilded chandeliers

La Grande Arche de la Défense

Inside la Grande Arche

Sculpture on the promenade at la Défense

Arc de Triomphe far away

Another Christmas market

Country cuisine

These came in dozens of flavors, a chocolate shell around cake above a wafer

'Twas delicious

La patisserie du lac

Some of the finest charcuterie in France is the palest

Not your average hot dog

Better in volume?

Those are heating elements that warm the cheese before shredding

Les Indignees are the miniscule counterpart to our Occupy protest movement

Signs from les Indignés

Yes, that's a Rodin on the subway platform near Les Invalides

L'Hôtel national des Invalides

Door into Les Invalides

Big metal thingie

Paris Music Conservatory

Musée de la Musique

Ivory and ebony

Over-the-top harpsichord

Programmatic equipment!

Viola da gamba (methinks)

Furniture that makes noise

Period instrument demonstration

Early pedal harp

Serpentine buccin

Because it needs to do that

Non-pianoforte piano

Lacks the thick metal strings of a pianoforte

Comically named "violon irregulier"

Diorama of Wagner's Bayreuth opera house, with its infamous sunken orchestra pit and shield

Early Ondes Martenot

The Ondes Martenot is famously integral to the Turangalîla-Symphonie of Olivier Messiaen

Surprised to find that these tuning adjustments refer to "do-re-mi-fa-so"...

A pully system completes the so-called "ribbon controller" aspect of the Ondes Martenot

The silver loop is what the performer oscillates with their finger for pitch and vibrato

On the left is an amplitude dial, located in later models at a front drawer on the Ondes Martenot

Later-model Ondes Martenot

More streamlined, the later Ondes Martenot parked controls (e.g., amplitude) in drawers

Moog synthesizer

Tone generator, envelope shaper and filters on the Moog

Audio recording console

Early electric violin

That's a Yamaha DX-7 in the background (FM synthesizer; I had the related TX-81Z tone module)

The Synclavier arguably draws the line between vintage and modern synths

Django "Sweet and Lowdown" Reinhart's guitar

Distant view of the massive Vuillaume Octobasse

Arc du Triomphe

Moon over Paris

Eiffel on the skyline

Avenue des Champs-Élysées

La Grande Arche de la Défense

Basilique du Sacré-Cœur

Panaorama of Paris skyline

Inside the Arc du Triomphe

Descending the Arc

Ceremony at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Église de la Sainte-Trinité

Britten/Widor/Part/Vierne choral concert at Sainte-Trinité (the church where Messiaen played organ for most of his life)

Galleries Lafayette

Moon over the Opera Garnier

From the interior garden of the Petit Palais

Corridor of the Petit Palais' courtyard

Wrought iron bannister

Ivory carving (rival to the ones I've seen at the Cloisters in New York)

Ceiling of Petit Palais

Outlandish timepiece

Figurines on the crazy clock

The Good Samaritan

Rotunda under the Petit Palais dome

Flag flying over the Grand Palais

Pont Alexandre III

Dream apartment

Fréderic Auguste Bartholdi's "Flamme de la Liberte"

Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris

"The Electricity Fairy" by Raoul Dufy

"The Unfinished Dance" by Henri Matisse

"The Storeroom of the Children's Museum I and II" by Christian Boltanski

Artwork by Pierre's girlfriend Fanny, at their home

Fanny is in the midst of a wonderfully innovative concept, painting posters from imagined pairings of people from film history with complex plotlines and backgrounds of her own devising

Fanny does Alfred Hitchcock

More art by Fanny

Au revoir, Paris

Paul Moon
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