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Les Tour Dix Fountaines
Maybe 2019 will be the year of touring a fountain each day
Top Ten List of Fountains
Apollo Fountain (Versailes)
Stavinsky Fountain (Centre Pompidou)
Fountain Innoscents (Marais)
St Dennis Fountain
(claimed to be the site where St Dennis stopped after his be-heading to clean-up)
The Saint Michel Fountain
Medici Fountain (Jardin du Luxembourg)
Fontaines de la Concorde (Place de la Concorde)
Obelisk of Luxor
(Formerly named Place de la Révolution where many were guillotined,
including King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette
Fontaine des Quatre-Saisons
Fontaine de la Pyramide (Louvre)
Place des Vosges
Louvre Highlights
http://thelistlove.com/10-interesting-facts-about-the-louvre/
Great Louvre Link (World in Paris)
Peniture (Louvre)
Spain
1400-1850 (Level 1 Denon)
France
1350-1650 (Level 2 Richelieu)
1650-1850 (Level 2 Sully)
1780-1850 (Level 1 Denon)
Italy
1250-1800 (Level 1 Denon)
Northern Europe
1350-1850 (Level 2 Richelieu)
étage (floor, storey, level)
In France, the floors are numbered differently, so that the Noble Floor, which is the 2ème étage, is what we would call the 3rd floor in the US. For the ground floor, which the Americans call floor 1, the French have a separate term: rez-de-chaussée.
rez-de-chaussee
1er Étage is the floor above the ground floor (or the 2nd Floor)
Lower Ground Floor (Rez-de-Chaussee)
Ground Floor – Mezzanine above the ground floor (Entresol)
1st Floor – 2nd Floor (1er Etage)
2nd Floor – 3rd Floor (2me Etage)
In France, there are two distinct names for storeys in buildings which have two “ground floors” at different levels (on two opposite faces, usually). The lower one is called rez-de-chaussée (lit. “adjacent to the road”), the upper one is rez-de-jardin (lit. “adjacent to the garden”). The same differentiation is used as well in some buildings in Croatia. The lower level is called razizemlje (abbr. RA), and the upper prizemlje (PR). If there’s only one ground floor, it’s called prizemlje. The latter usage is standard for smaller buildings, such as single-family homes.
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Storey
Paris Fire (April 2019)
Monday, April 15th
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris
When I received the first text about Notre-Dame being on fire, I felt a little weepy
-wished that I had attended the usual Christmas sunrise service
-glad that I climbed the “Tour” last December
Notre-Dame of Royal Weddings and State Funerals
Notre Dame of Literature
Despite being centuries old, the site of several churches
Located at the point from which all distances in Paris are measured
Dominates the island in the Seine, where all of Paris originated
I am not a structural engineer, although the “after picture” don’t-look-as-bad as I thought
(but what do I know)
The Bell Towers and Rose Stain-Glass Window remain
The roof is gone and that might be a big-deal
The Cathedral was under construction, so the Copper Statutes of the Twelve Apostles, the green patinaed figures spaced up the sides of the spire had been removed
The Cock — a Gallic Rooster that topped the spire (the unofficial national symbol of France) was recoverd in the ruble, albiet damaged
This historic city that the world loves undergoes change and modernization constantly
-consider Eiffel’s radical Tower
-Chagall’s controversial Mural on the ceiling of the Opera House and
-I. M. Pei’s Pyramid at Le Louvre
The streets of Paris were changed drastically by Hausman, who converted narrow streets (that you might still see in portions of the Left Bank) into grand boulevards, more amenable to being policed and defended
The Musée d’Orsay, one of the most popular Paris museums for its collection of Impressionist art, was once a train station (Gare d’Orsay), which sat dormant (the set of a Orson Wells film, The Trial) The former train station platform, under a glass ceiling, is now occupied by sculptures. This display of scupture competes with the sculpture courts of the Louvre
Critical portions of Paris were destroyed even by Parisians during the revolution
-Those statues on the facade of Notre-Dame were practically destroyed – decapitated and vandalized
-The mighty bells of the tower, smelted for ammunition
-Even the Statute of Henry IV on the pont neuf is mostly rebuilt
And Notre-Dame has survived periods of deep destitution
before being revitalized by the Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo
And considering the Hunchback, Notre-Dame was built on an extensive set in California’s San Fernando Valley. This 1939 movie was critically acclaimed and nominated for an Academy Award (unfortunately the same year as Gone with the Wind and the Wizard of Oz) Charles Laughton (Quasimodo, the bell ringer) was actually married to The Bride of Frankenstein (Elsa Lanchester)
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/29877%7C0/The-Hunchback-of-Notre-Dame.html
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