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tenlittlebullets) wrote2007-08-15 01:48 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2007-08-15 01:48 pm
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Paris Photo Post #4: Frenchboys, etc.
I'm making a vague effort to organize these thematically, so today we have the Frenchboy bits. (Please control yourselves, ladies.) And the Marius bits, though I'm sure most of those present at the moment are more interested in properly revolutionary Frenchboys.
The Place Edmond Rostand, formerly the Place Saint-Michel, site of the Café Musain. Oh how the mighty have fallen--yes, that is a McDonald's. You can't see it, but the entrance to the Jardin du Luxembourg is off to the right.
Place de la Sorbonne. You can bet there was more than one figment who laughed at me for bothering to take a picture of it.
This has nothing to do with any spot Hugo mentioned. I'm just easily amused.
Jardin du Luxembourg
I did not, alas, meet a charming young Frenchman who wooed me with his gaze without saying a word. In fact, I got shat on by a pigeon. But in any case, here's a bench. Pretend you can see Cosette's handkerchief.
The Excellence of Misfortune (or, Marius, you dork)
No. 50, Boulevard de l'Hôpital. Once upon a time, there might have been a Gorbeau tenement here.
One day, while playing with google, I discovered that there is a rue du Champ de l'Alouette in Paris. However, the reason nobody ever mentions it in lists of Les Mis-related locations is because there is no more Field of the Lark.
No, really. Don't let the trees fool you...
They're just planted in front of more ugly buildings. (There was a Field of the Lark. Nomenclature des Voies says the street was named after an actual field. But it's entirely past tense now, woe.)
Not an awful lot left. Montfermeil, the Seine and its various bridges, the Panthéon, and Notre-Dame.
The Place Edmond Rostand, formerly the Place Saint-Michel, site of the Café Musain. Oh how the mighty have fallen--yes, that is a McDonald's. You can't see it, but the entrance to the Jardin du Luxembourg is off to the right.
Place de la Sorbonne. You can bet there was more than one figment who laughed at me for bothering to take a picture of it.
This has nothing to do with any spot Hugo mentioned. I'm just easily amused.
Jardin du Luxembourg
I did not, alas, meet a charming young Frenchman who wooed me with his gaze without saying a word. In fact, I got shat on by a pigeon. But in any case, here's a bench. Pretend you can see Cosette's handkerchief.
The Excellence of Misfortune (or, Marius, you dork)
No. 50, Boulevard de l'Hôpital. Once upon a time, there might have been a Gorbeau tenement here.
One day, while playing with google, I discovered that there is a rue du Champ de l'Alouette in Paris. However, the reason nobody ever mentions it in lists of Les Mis-related locations is because there is no more Field of the Lark.
No, really. Don't let the trees fool you...
They're just planted in front of more ugly buildings. (There was a Field of the Lark. Nomenclature des Voies says the street was named after an actual field. But it's entirely past tense now, woe.)
Not an awful lot left. Montfermeil, the Seine and its various bridges, the Panthéon, and Notre-Dame.
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FYI, I need some "quotes" from the catacomb walls for my novel, so I might use the ones you took. I only took photos of the bones while I was there and I'm trying to finish up my second draft. Merci!
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