Tout le monde aime des baguettes!

Mid-morning errand...

Does she go daily to bring back the baguettes?  

How is it that I have not seen her before?

It pays to keep one's eyes open in Paris

...and camera ready

Rue des Petits Champs

75002, Paris

 

 

 

Place Pierre Lafue - Alfred Dreyfus

Alfred Dreyfus

In the midst of a small square (Place Pierre Lafue) on Boulevard Raspail we stopped our Vélibs and took several photos of this Giacometti-style porous bronze with a pigeon on its head.

What seemed an interesting sculpture in an inauspicious location proved to have an intriguing story which played out over a century ago, the Dreyfus Affair.  This sculpture was created in 1986 by Louis Mitelberg (TIM) and shows "Captain Dreyfus" with his broken sword.  To read more about the story, click here.

Place Pierre Lafue

116, boulevard Raspail

75006, Paris

Un bateau et la Seine

A boat and the Seine

We see here the captain at the bow of the boat 

(driving while talking on the phone) 

and perhaps two lovers at the stern.  

Since this photo was taken from the quai, 

there was not an opportunity to ask questions or to discover the story

C'est un mystère!

La Seine

Quai de la Mégisserie

75001, Paris

Musée Grevin - a ghost?

At Musée Grevin, this figure peeking from behind the velvet curtains

seemed just spooky enough for our Halloween

I am not sure who inspired this wax figure.  It is a wax figure, right?

Musée Grevin

Passage Jouffroy

Boulevard Montmartre

75009 Paris

Passage Jouffroy - un mystère?

As one looks up* in Passage Jouffroy, the iron and glass ceiling catches the eye along with the lamps, ever-present for almost two centuries. For what purpose is that door and where might it lead? Is there anyone looking out over the many pedestrians of the passage each day?

If it seems that I am suggesting it is haunted or slightly askew, I have been reading Deborah Lawrenson's wonderful book, The Lantern, just published by HarperCollins in the USA. A novelist and journalist, she and her husband live in a crumbling house in the Luberon which is the inspiration for her captivating, haunting book. You can check out her blog here.

*always remember to look up


Passage Jouffroy
10-12, boulevard Montmartre
9, rue de la Grange Batelière
75009 Paris