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| The city of Paris has been run from this spot since 1357. This city hall, the Hôtel de Ville, was begun in 1533 and has been added onto over the centuries. It's one of my favorite Paris buildings, but there's so much going on here that I like to focus on one detail or another—like the allegorical statuary around the clock . . . |
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| or one of the elaborately gated entries. [I'm linking back to Our World Tuesday.] |
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| This is the corner of rue des Rosiers and rue des Hospitalières St. Gervais (a very long name for a very short street). The street art appears to be a collaboration: I don't know who did the robotic creature in the background, but I think I've seen his (her?) work in the 13th; Nature's Revenge is usually associated with the artist Ludo, but I can't see what he contributed here (maybe the butterflies?); the beautiful tigers are the work of Mosko et Associés (founded by two old friends, Michel Allemand and Gérard Laux, who grew up in the area north of Montmartre called Moskowa). [I'm linking back to Paulita's meme, Dreaming of France, because I am, always— and also to Orange You Glad It's Friday.] |
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| There's a point of light for each of the 76,000 Parisians who were deported to concentration camps during WWII. This memorial at the eastern end of the Ile de la Cité is a very powerful place. |
