Photos, Paris: Here and there

PARIS, HERE AND THERE

All three of the above were taken in fall of 1973. If memory serves (and it probably doesn't) the Art Nouveau window grille at far left was in the vicinity of the Arc de Triomphe, and the beautful, crumbling tile facade bordering a driveway barrier was no doubt on the rue de Turenne. Was it once a bath house? ("Bains" means baths.) I do know that the ship-figure lamp post was in the Place de la Concorde, because I wrote that down. I was fascinated that different cities and different countries throughout Western Europe had lamp posts with varied images of ships on them. The countries changed, the ships changed, but you could usually find one somewhere. I don't know the story behind how it started. As I was looking at the Art Nouveau grille again to scan it for this site, I realized there was graffiti in the picture. I'd noticed graffiti on the walls of Paris earlier this year (2000), and it made me sad. I'd forgotten that there had been some the last time I was there.

This is another set from fall, 1975. I'm not sure where the horses and the lampost are located, but the sign sort of gives itself away. I loved these blue signs with wrought frames, and we sure didn't have anything like that in Southern California. Place Clemenceau is in the park area in the eastern part of the Champs Elysees.

This is the Romanesque apse end of the church of St. Julien le Pauvre (Julien the Poor). Just around the corner from St. Severin-St. Nicholas, St. Julien was also built before the Vikings invaded France and was destroyed at least once by them. In the picture on the right, you can see a small structure with a hole through it -- an ancient well. The tiny church is in a gated park and sculpture garden called Square Renee Viviani. Both pictures were taken in January, 2000.

I love this picture that Marco took of Sacre Coeur at night when we were there in January, 2000. We'd taken the metro up to Montmartre, up the "back" side of the hill, away from the Seine. We were hungry and it was getting dark, so we had dinner at a tiny restaurant with wonderful-tasting country-style food (that seems to describe most of the restaurants we ate in) and by the time we were done it was dark. We walked through some of the tourist squares on the hill and over to Sacre Coeur. There was a service going on inside and it was jammed. It was lovely, but we couldn't walk around. We took the funicular down (left side in the photo). It inhabits the dark area past the trees. The outhouses just down from the church smelled so bad I decided not to use them, but at the bottom of the funicular there was (thank god) one of the automated free-standing rooms where the entire structure flushes when leave and close the door. In the cold and mist, we walked toward the front of the church. Behind a six-foot fence there was a merry-go-round, almost obscured. And Marco balanced his camera on a fence and got this picture. The middle photo and the one on the right Sheryl took in fall, 1975. Again, Montmartre as the sun was leaving, as it does around 3 or 4 p.m. that time of year. The one on the far right was taken looking across Rue des Saules and down Rue de l'Abreuvoir.

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All photos are © Copyright Sheryl Todd and Marco Herranz.

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