Angel of rue Turbigo

  This colossal angel on a building on rue Turbigo spans three floors. 

 

 By: Auguste Émile Delange 1859

Hand in glove

View from inside a shop that specializes in gloves.

JB Guanti

59 rue de Rennes 75006

Inspiring words

"The world is yours" written uncharacteristically atop Paris' Odéon-Théâtre. 

 

(click to enlarge)

Thanksgiving toast

Pre-Thanksgiving toast of champagne cocktails in the bar at the Hotel Meurice.
 

- Happy Thanksgiving -

Three toques

Cooks and staff partake of an early lunch before customers begin to arrive, a daily ritual in Paris restaurants.

- Happy Thanksgiving 2016 -

Floating dresses

Dresses seem to float in a tiny Left Bank boutique.

Fall splendor #3

Bright orange leaves against the cathedral.

Fall splendor #2

Closer up, a tree bursts with color but it won't last long.

Fall splendor #1

A touch of autumn holds out along the quai next to Notre-Dame Cathedral.

Table for two

 

Table in passageway behind Le Procope restaurant, late at night.

Red carpet

Leaving the Grand Palais after a red carpet event. Across the street, the Oscar Wilde exhibit at Le Petit Palais.

Oscar Wilde: Insolence Incarnate til January 15, 2017

Meeting pointe

Worn-out chairs and cartoonlike paintings at a rickety café in the old Les Halles district.

Peninsula pastries

A playful array of sweets and pastries are set out at the Peninsula Hotel.

Top photo: lobby

Iron lady

 

The Eiffel Tower looms behind buildings at the end of a street.

Paris Photo 2016

This year's photography exhibitors exceed expectations.

PARIS PHOTO 2016 

Grand Palais
3 avenue du Général Eisenhower 75008

Ends Sunday November 13

Teas and spices

Teas and spices on display at Galeries Lafayette Le Gourmet.

35 Boulevard Haussman 75009

Steel sensation

Art / cultural center Louis Vuitton Foundation is a Frank Gehry architectural wonder.

 

Current exhibition:

Icons of Modern Art - The Shchukin Collection

8 Avenue du Mahatma Gandhi 75116

Tis the season

Mushroom season that is, still in full force at Paris markets...with as many ways to prepare them as there are varieties.

End to the day

A Montmartre café packs it in for the night.

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Turn a corner

The Eiffel Tower towers in full view near Pont de l'Alma.

Night portrait

High above the city a portrait artist on Place du Tertre works into the night.

French onion soup

A simple workers' after-market soup that utilizes throwaways (stale bread, cheese, onions) and meat stock, soupe à l'oignon traveled outside the French border to become a gourmet sensation.

Bar of sighs

It was from this terrace crooner Jacques Brel would sit every day looking with longing at a certain window across the street.

Au Rêve

89 rue Caulaincourt 75018

Klimt cups

Gold-lined demi-tasse cups of artworks by Gustav Klimt in a Montmartre shop window.