Book bags

Books decorate a boutique selling leather bags with chain straps.

Arc du Carrousel

The Arc du Carrousel opens onto the Tuileries Gardens. That's the giant Ferris Wheel on Place de la Concorde barely visible in the distance.

Curiosities

Marvels from present and past on a Quartier Latin back street.

Memory lane

Inner courtyard of my first apartment in Paris.

Paris-Strasbourg

A painting by American artist Albert Herter (1914) dominates the entrance inside Gare de l'Est train station.

Corner boulanger

 

A charming boulangerie-pâtisserie near Les Invalides that's also a coffee shop.

 

House of the rising Seine

A houseboat awaits water levels to come down after heavy rains.

In the background, the Pont Neuf.