Thoroughfare Thursday

 

 

Once noisy with cars, this Marais street has been transformed into a pedestrian haven. 

  

Treeful Tuesday

 

Evening, and the lit-up spire of Notre Dame Cathedral is like a beacon across the Seine.

 

Autumn eve

Parasols seem to glow in the evening sun.

 

 

Tête-à-tête Tuesday

 A romantic rendez-vous with noisy trash pickup trucks as background.

Evening sky

Silhouette of a Haussmann building at sunset.

Summer sunset

 Summer rains, clouds, a color-splashed sky.

Sunset and windmill

 

Every sunset brings the promise of a new tomorrow.

 

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Then, at last, Madeleine’s luck turned. She came across Montmartre. With its windmills, its clear air and the old-fashioned, village feel of its higgledy-piggledy houses perched on a slope.... - Catherine Hewitt, Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon

 

 

View from a window

 Chimneys and rooftops over Paris.

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The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant. - T. S. Eliot

On the Île

Evening falls and the Île Saint-Louis springs to life.

Ruskin knew

 

 

You, who have ever been to Paris, know....

 John Ruskin 1835

Fauvist feast

Café scene at the foot of a Montmartre stairway reminiscent of colors of Gauguin.