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Shopping in Paris
Museum Gift Shops: Stationary and Art Supplies
Chocolate Shops: Sample Chocolate Squares
A small square of chocolate fits into Birthday Cards
and still qualifies for 1st Class Postage
Big Bottle of Cheap French Cologne (Eau de toilette)
Which we sprinkle over our clothes all week, the scarf
Maybe carry 2oz bottles so that we can carry some home
Our major rule, is to shop later, maybe the last day of our week
(Otherwise, you will haul the extra weight from hotel to hotel each day)
Also to find things that we can’t find at home
i.e. that piece of cheese, you can probably buy back at home
That parfume, can probably be purchased at the duty-free shop at the airport
Printemps (Great View from 9th Floor, best map of Paris)
Galleries Lafayette
Paris Food Shops:
https://www.maisonverot.fr/
http://www.rapparis.fr/
Cheese: dunroamin 51 Rue de Grenelle
None 12 58 Rue Tiquetonne, 75002 Paris
https://www.lagrandeepicerie.com/en/accueil-en
https://www.fauchon.com/
Jacques-Louis David
Buried in Brussels
Although his heart may be buried with wife at Pere Lachaise
(they would not have allowed his body into Paris at the time)
The Coronation of Napoleon
The Largest Painting at the Louvre
(although The Wedding at Cana is also a very large painting, opposite Mona Lisa)
Madame Récamier
Eugène Delacroix
peintre (painter)
Known for large number of large French Romantic Art paintings
In a famous Louvre room of French Paintings, there are numerous large paintings
And there is a separate museum devoted to Delacroix in Paris
Subjects:
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2018/delacroix
Eugène Delacroix, Passion and Inspiration
https://www.louvre.fr/en/routes/eugene-delacroix
Louvre Delacroix Retrospective
https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/louvre-delacroix-retrospective-look-1267508
Apollon vainqueur du serpent Python
http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=15319
Galerie d’Apollon (Ceiling)
Buried in Pere LaChaise Cemetery
Division 49
Musée National Eugène-Delacroix
6 rue de Fürstenberg
http://www.musee-delacroix.fr/en/
Galerie d’Apollon (Ceiling)
Liberty Leading the People
Salon of 1831
The Women of Algiers
Parisians you should know
Over the years that we have visited Paris, we are impressed by what we do not know
(and how much there is still to discover)
Among the statues, grave sites, metro stations, street-names and paintings, some names sound familiar, but who are these Parisians? And, should we know them?
Here are a few Parisians you should know:
Eugène Delacroix, Father of Romanticism and painter of more than a few LARGE canvases at Le Louvre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix
Léon Foucault
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Foucault
Napoleon Bonaparte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon
Édith Piaf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89dith_Piaf
Gertrude Stein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein
Alice B. Toklas
Who is Buried in Paris Cemeteries
Painters
Georges Seurat
Paul Signac
Chaim Soutine
Camille Pissarro
Modriandi
Théodore Géricault
Musicians
Rossini
Callas
Morrison
Edith Piaf
Serge Gainesboro
Frédéric Chopin
Patriots
Lafayette (Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier)
Scientists
Marie Curie
Thesbians
Marcel Marceau
Sarah Bernhardt
Jeanne Moreau
Authors
Oscar Wilde
Alice B. Toklas
Parisians
Gertrude Stein
Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann
Culinary
Careme
Alice B. Toklas
https://bachtrack.com/feature-ten-resting-places-graves-burials-famous-composers-july-2018
Recycled Paris
Some of the most revered works of art in Paris have been –
Reclaimed, Restored and Recycled just like Paris itself:
Vénus et les Trois Grâces offrant des présents à une jeune fille (Botticelli)
Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman
“This fresco is one of a set of three discovered under a coat of whitewash in the loggia of the Villa Lemmi in 1873″ (louvre.fr)
Monumental statue of the Sun King on horseback
https://www.thedailybeast.com/les-tuileries-the-phantom-palace-of-paris?source=twitter&via=desktop
But Louis XIV was losing interest in the Tuileries. He had turned his attention to a hunting lodge he decided to make the center of his court and of France — the Palace of Versailles — and he ruled from there for the next 44 years after spending his last night at the Tuileries, which was also his last night in Paris, in February 1671.
Bernini, back in Rome, sculpted a monumental statue of the Sun King on horseback. But when it finally was delivered to Louis, after the artist’s death, the monarch hated it. In 1685 he had it relegated it to an obscure corner of the gardens at Versailles. Only 300 years later, and almost in secret, would it suddenly be given new prominence.
The Six Continents (D’Orsay)
Winged Victory Louvre
The Louvre Courtyard
As workmen occupy the Courtyard of the Louvre (during the 80’s) constructing the Grand Louvre project including the Pyramid, there was major restoration of the facade. Much like myself, Paris is ageing and requires continuing work. We have heard of the local law which requires that the exteriors of buildings in Paris must be washed on a periodic basis
Notre Dame Gallery
Severed Heads at Cluny Museum
Arc de Triomphe
Arc de Triomphe
Place de l’Étoile, Paris, France
On the Champs-Élysées
Pronounced: shans-ellie-zay
(the “mp” becomes an “n”)
Place Charles de Gaulle
Place de L’Étoile (meaning Square of the Star)
meeting point of 12 avenues
Getting to the Top
If you have a Museum Pass, avoid the long line in the underground tunnel and head to the front of the line, where you will begin the climb up a LONG circular iron staircase to an unexpected Tourism Center toward the top, with “vintage” bathrooms (la salle de bain) circa 1940
The rooftop was anti-climactic for us – it is so barren, but you will experience the Axe Historique (Historical Axis) inspired in part by Washington D.C. where a series of monuments are placed along this axis.
For urban planners this is coup of historic symbolism
Furthermore, the orientation is on a 26° angle (following the course of the sun rising in the east, setting in the west as it travels over:
-The Louvre
-The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
-The gardens of the Tuileries
-The Place de la Concorde and the Egyptian obelisk
-The Arc de Triomphe (sur les Champs-Élysées)
-The Esplanade de La Défense and
-The Arche de La Defense
In contrast, the stone steps to the towers of Notre Dame seemed twice the climb. The slightly uneven and imperfect stone steps are approximately the same height as the Arc de Triomphe. The view down on the Seine is much better and there is so much up-in-the tower to see: the gargoyles, bells, Saints, spires and towers, the integration with the cathedral rooftop. The masonry! Well worth the climb!
For other good views, we suggest:
-The Plaza at La Defense
-Sacre Couer
-The top floor balconies at Centre Pompidou
(although, we have never been to the top of Tour Eiffel)
École de Paris
André Warnod (French Writer) was the first to use the term “École de Paris” to designate an Art Movement in the first half of the 20th century
(it includes French and émigré artists who worked in Montmartre and Montparnasse)
School of Paris (Art Movement)
French and émigré artists who worked in Paris in the first half of the 20th century
James Voorhies Department of European Paintings
Essay (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Includes Émigré Artists:
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
Joan Miró (1893–1983
Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978)
Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920)
Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957)
Chaim Soutine (1893–1943)
Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980)
Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980)
Marc Chagall (1887–1985)
Fernand Léger(1881–1955)
Robert Delaunay (1885–1941)
Who worked in tandem with French luminaries such as:
Henri Matisse(1869–1954)
André Derain (1880–1954)
Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947)
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)
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