H I S T O R I C A L N O T E S
Liberty Leading the People. A short recollection of historical events in revolutionary France >>> (a short list of events that led to abandoning for good the French monarchy inspired by the a painting by Delacroix)
The Great and the Controversial >>> (a historical note on Napoleon Bonaparte)
The Mulberry harbour >>> (a historical note with a gallery of photos on military logistics after D-Day)
The missing link. Written in the Norman city of Rouen >>> (a comment on the origins of Norman culture)
Charlemagne, the King of Francs >>> (a historical note on Charlemagne)
Le Roi Soleil. A short note by the end of the Paris fashion week >>> (a note on Luis XIVth and his influence onto the fashion world)
The Benedictine rule >>> (a note on Benedictines after a visit at the St. Michel monastery)
S I G H T S E E I N G A N D I M P R E S S I O N S
Waiting for the summer. Memories from Normandy >>> (a note with a photo gallery after visiting the beach of Etretat and the old port of Honfleur)
Travel memories on Good Friday >>> (a note after the visit in the Saint Thegonnec enclosure)
Sacre Coeur >>> (a photo gallery)
Vers la Gloire >>> (a note on a fresco of a horse charge in the Pantheon)
The Louvre >>> (a note after a visit with a photo gallery)
Mount St. Michel >>> (a note with photos after a visit at Mont St. Michel)
Enjoying the Notre Dame >>> (a note with photo impressions after a visit in Notre Dame of Paris)
Overcrowded >>> (a note with photos on the overcrowding in places considered worth to visit)
More to come >>> (a photo gallery of a show in Lido, a cabaret located at Champs Elysees)
Beauvais >>> (a photo gallery)
A Sunday morning in Paris >>> (recalling the memories, while prepping for the next trip to Paris)
24 hours in Paris >>> (a photo gallery)
Bretagne >>> (a note and a photo gallery with first impressions of a journey to Bretagne)
Quiberon >>> (a photo gallery with pictures of rock formations on the Quiberon peninsula)
A handmade soap >>> (a comment)
The Eiffel Tour >>> (a note on the Eiffel Tour, wrote originally 2016, but completed with new photos all around the tower after yet another visit in February 2017)
G A L L E R Y
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- This one is looking straight at the Louvre pyramids. A statue of a winged woman at the Place du Carrousel, between the Louvre Museum and Tuileries Garden.
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- Back yard of the Sacre Coeur Cathedral at Mont Martre.
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- Honfleur
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- Beauvais
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- An illustration artist taking a picture of two French rugby fans at the main square of Mont Martre
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- The Luxembourg gardens. Behind the park the only sky scraper in this part of the city. It still stands, but after it was erected, a law was introduced that forbids this kind of constructions in the historic city quarters.
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- Luxembourg Gardens, Paris
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- Paris
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- Louvre, Paris
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- Normandy, Atlantic coastline
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- Paris
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- The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, and through the opening the view onto the Tuileries gardens that reach to the Place de la Concorde. This Arc must not be confused with the mostly known Arc de Triomphe situated at the Place de l’Etoile called Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile.
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- Etretat
