The purple hour

 

 

It's early and hardly anyone is awake as a café gets ready to open.

 

Twizy

"Twizy" Renault's all-electric two-seater can zip around narrow Paris streets.

The boulanger

Proudly he stands, and rightly so, in front of the day's labors.

Fed up

This street sign in the Latin Quarter says, "Non-smoking sidewalk."

Sudden café

One of my favorite subjects to photograph is cafés, and I came upon this one completely by surprise despite visiting this quartier often.

Louvred window

View from a window inside the Louvre Museum of its great Pyramid.

 

Back-to-school

The stately Université Sorbonne embodies the spirit of this week's rentrée scolaire.