10 February 2007
An apartment building in the Latin Quarter, near Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre.
10 February 2007
This tree was planted hundreds of years ago and so has been propped up.
10 February 2007
A park in the 5th
10 February 2007
Parisian building
10 February 2007
The winter sun is low on the horizon in Paris
10 February 2007
The winter sun is low on the horizon in Paris
10 February 2007
The winter sun is low on the horizon in Paris
10 February 2007
The winter sun is low on the horizon in Paris
10 February 2007
A view across the square in front of the Notre Dame, looking towards the Hôtel de Dieu
10 February 2007
I don't have enough photos of Notre Dame
10 February 2007
Looking across the Seine
10 February 2007
On the right is the Ilde de Cité. On the left is the Right Bank.
10 February 2007
Merry-go-round in front of the Hôtel de Ville
10 February 2007
Fish market in the Right Bank near the BHV
11 February 2007
I almost bought this statue, but then decided it was more kitsch than high art. It is, however, a personification of otherness. The figure has racial characteristics of both black and white, and features of both male and female.
11 February 2007
The statue of Joan of Arc in the 1st Arrondissement
11 February 2007
Nicole loks up at the statue of Joan of Arc in the 1st Arrondissement
11 February 2007
The statue of Joan of Arc in the 1st Arrondissement
11 February 2007
A side altar in Saint-Roch, Paris, Rue St.-Honoré: the largest Late Baroque church in Paris.
11 February 2007
St Roch has a really nice system of cascading altars. In the very back of the church is a modern-looking chapel with a crucifix. In the back of the main part of the church, there is a tabernacle and a window looking back at the alter behind.
11 February 2007
St Roch has a really nice system of cascading altars. In the very back of the church is a modern-looking chapel with a crucifix. In the back of the main part of the church, there is a tabernacle and a window looking back at the altar behind. The front main alter of the church has a window showing the tabernacle behind and finally the cross in the very back.
11 Fenruary 2007
This sign explains many things about the St Francis of Salles Chapel in Saint-Roch church. Among other things, it says, "Statue of Saint Jeanne d'Arc (1412-1431), who was wounded behind the mound of Saint Roch during the siege of Paris on September 18 1429. Sainte Jeanne d'Arc is celebrated May 30."
The church is named for the mound, upon which it sits. I asked a French woman looking at the sign if she knew where this location might have been exactly. (In terrible, terrible French, alas.) She said it was there, in earlier times. I therefore concluded that this was as close as one could reasonably expect to come to finding the site where she was wounded.
11 February 2007
This is a fairly standard representation of Joan of Arc in the church of Saint Roch.
How could they possibly know exactly where she had been wounded (shot through the neck with an arrow)?
11 February 2007
I forgot about victorian certainty. There is a monument high on a building that supposedly marks the exact spot where an arrow got her in the neck, but I failed to locate it. Next time . . .
11 February 2007
Charles ordered her to withdraw from seiging Paris shortly after she was wounded. He became king despite his terrible military/negotiation stategy.
The public widely perceived Joan as having lost her battle with Paris and her reputation suffered.
11 February 2007
St Roch has a really nice system of cascading altars. In the very back of the church is a modern-looking chapel with a crucifix. In the back of the main part of the church, there is a tabernacle and a window looking back at the altar behind. The front main alter of the church has a window showing the tabernacle behind and finally the cross in the very back. The mina mian later had an open arch to the front main altar behind it.
11 February 2007
Alas, this is just a copy of the original parchment.
11 February 2007
Alas, this is just a copy of the original parchment.
11 February 2007
Side altar in St Roch
11 February 2007
St Roch church
