2015-09-02-Paris, FR-Isle St Louis, Left Bank & Musée...

2015-09-02-Paris, FR-Isle St Louis, Left Bank & Musée d'Orsay

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Pont Saint-Louis, a pedestrian bridge linking the islands of Île de la Cité and Île Saint-Louis (The present bridge, inaugurated in 1970, is the seventh to link the two islands since 1630. The pont Saint-Landry (1630–1634) was the first of these.)

Georgia rests before we venture onto Île Saint-Louis

The Cathedral of Notre Dame from Pont Saint-Louis

Street musicians on Pont Saint-Louis

Hotel de Ville viewed from Pont Saint-Louis

Mouth watering macaroons, a French favorite

Street scene: Paris street cleaners hard at work

Young Parisians tear into their mid-day bageuttes

Without question, the best ice cream on the planet

The Left Bank (L) Notre Dame (C) and Isle St Louis (R)

The Paris Marine Police patrolling the Seine

Making epicurean chocolates on Isle St Louis since before our nation's founding

Notre Dame from the Left Bank of the Seine

Strolling on a Left Bank quay

Notre Dame from the Left Bank of the Seine

A river barge converted to a small restaurant

Stately Notre Dame

Detail-The Cathedral of Notre DAme

An accordionist by the Seine-The French have a passion for Accordion (After the invention of the accordion in 1829, its popularity spread throughout the world, in no small measure due to the polka craze. "Once the polka became a craze in Paris and London during the spring of 1844, it diffused rapidly to the rest of the world. . . . In March 1844, polka-mania took Paris: common people, servants, workers and, one assumes, anyone else who wasn't too stuffy were dancing the polka in the streets of the capital and soon in Bordeaux and other French cities as well. A week or so later it took London by storm. And from these two great centers of fashion, empire, and influence, the polka diffused rapidly upward into the rest of French and English society and outward to the rest of the world.")

Notre Dame's transcept Rose Window

Tom on the Left Bank across from Notre Dame

Georgia on Left Bank

Pont au Change (It connects the Île de la Cité from Notre Dame, the Palais de Justice and the Conciergerie, to the Right Bank, at the Place du Châtelet.)

A fine view of Notre Dame from a small park in the Latin Quarter

Latin Quarter-A hodgepodge of ancient and more modern buildings

An inviting and colorful eatery in the Latin Quarter

Shakespeare and Company, in the Latin Quarter (Shakespeare and Company is the name of two independent bookstores that have existed on Paris's Left Bank.The first was opened by the American Sylvia Beach on November 19, 1919. During the 1920s, Beach's shop was a gathering place for many then-aspiring young writers such as Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce and Ford Madox Ford. It closed in 1940 during the German occupation of Paris and never re-opened. The second is situated at 37 rue de la Bûcherie (pictured here) in the 5th arrondissement. Opened in 1951 by George Whitman, it was originally named "Le Mistral", but was renamed to "Shakespeare and Company" in 1964 in tribute to Sylvia Beach's store. Today, it serves both as a regular bookstore, a second-hand books store, and as a reading library, specializing in English-language literature.The shop has become a popular tourist attraction.)

Église Saint-Séverin (The Church of Saint-Séverin (French: Église Saint-Séverin) is a Roman Catholic church in the Latin Quarter of Paris, located on the lively tourist street Rue Saint-Séverin. It is one of the oldest churches that remains standing on the Left Bank, and it continues in use as a place of worship.)

Church of Saint-Séverin (Saint-Séverin of Paris, a devout hermit, lived on the banks of the River Seine during the first half of the fifth century. The oratory which was built over his tomb became the site of a small Romanesque church which was built around the eleventh century. As a result of the rapidly expanding community on the Left Bank, it was decided a larger church was required. The new structure, built at the beginning of the thirteenth century in the Gothic style, had a nave with lateral aisles. An additional aisle on the south side was built in the early 14th century to accommodate the growing congregations from the nearby university.[1])

Organ of the Church of Saint-Séverin

Pillar in the shape of a palm tree in St Séverin church

Gargoyles of the Church of Saint-Séverin (The church's external features include some fine gargoyles and flying buttresses. Its bells include the oldest one remaining in Paris, cast in 1412.)

A lady and her rabbit seeking alms

La Conciergerie

Lunchtime in the Latin Quarter

Place St Michel, Left Bank (The heart of St. Michel is still the Place St. Michel with its baroque fountain of St. Michel killing a demon of some sort. This was once the site of numerous protests and social uprisings. One of the main events of French resistance to the occupying Nazis took place in the square, and in the now legendary riots of 1968, students took charge of the square in the face of tear gas and police clubs, declaring it an independent state! Odd as this may sound, it led workers to rally the same cause by announcing mass strikes, which led to the eventual fall of De Gaulle's government. This was once the "Washington Square Park" of Paris, filled with hippies, artists, writers, poets, dancers, musicians and art students. Now you are more likely to see the "Des Moines Bingo Club" on tour, en masse, zipped up in North Face and Gore-Tex as they climb the harrowing length of St. Michel in the extreme conditions of an late spring chill.)

Street Scene on the Left Bank

Musée d'Orsay, a magnificent art gallery that was originally a train station. (The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography.)

The Louvre and Pont Royal

African Warrior Princess bronze outside the Musée d'Orsay

Gladiators- Musée d'Orsay

Main Gallery-Musée d'Orsay (Musée d'Orsay houses the largest collection of impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin and Van Gogh.)

Cafe in Musée d'Orsay

Sculpture-Musée d'Orsay

View of Sacre Cour on Montmarte from the clock of Musée d'Orsay

View of Sacre Cour on Montmarte from the clock of Musée d'Orsay

Entrance-Musée d'Orsay. It's origins as a grand train station are evident (The museum building was originally a railway station, Gare d'Orsay, constructed for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans and finished in time for the 1900 Exposition Universelle. It was the terminus for the railways of southwestern France until 1939. By 1939 the station's short platforms had become unsuitable for the longer trains that had come to be used for mainline services. After 1939 it was used for suburban services and part of it became a mailing centre during World War II.In 1970, permission was granted to demolish the station but Jacques Duhamel, Minister for Cultural Affairs, ruled against plans to build a new hotel in its stead. The station was put on the supplementary list of Historic Monuments and finally listed in 1978. The suggestion to turn the station into a museum came from the Directorate of the Museums of France. The idea was to build a museum that would bridge the gap between the Louvre and the National Museum of Modern Art at the Georges Pompidou Centre.)

Hercules the Archer, Musée d'Orsay by Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (Trained first in Montauban and then in Toulouse, Bourdelle started work as an assistant in Rodin's studio. This work is remarkable both for its tension and for its balanced construction. The dynamics come from the interaction of solids and voids, brutal force and balance. The figure denotes power, high-strung energy, pulled taut between the arm bending the bow and the foot braced against the rock.)

Musée d'Orsay Clock, designed by Victor Laloux, Main Hall

Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor (The passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor is a footbridge over the River Seine in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. This relatively new bridge links the Musée d'Orsay and the Jardin des Tuileries (Tuileries Gardens) and was built between 1997 and 1999 under the direction of the engineer and architect Marc Mimram. Crossing the Seine with a single span and no piers, this metallic bridge is architecturally unique and covered in exotic woods)

The Grande Palais from near Musée d'Orsay

The Seine with the Louvre on the left and Musée d'Orsay on the right. Center-Pont Royal. (The Pont Royal is a bridge crossing the river Seine in Paris. It is the third oldest bridge in Paris, after the Pont Neuf and the Pont Marie.)

The Louvre and Pont Royal

Musée d'Orsay viewed from Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor

King Henri IV on the Pont Neuf (At the point where the bridge crosses the Île de la Cité, there stands a bronze equestrian statue of king Henry IV, originally commissioned from Giambologna under the orders of Marie de Médicis, Henri’s widow and Regent of France, in 1614. After his death, Giambologna's assistant Pietro Tacca completed the statue, which was erected on its pedestal by Pietro Francavilla, in 1618. It was destroyed in 1792 during the French Revolution, but was rebuilt in 1818, following the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy. Bronze for the new statue was obtained with the bronze from a statue of Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, as well as from the statue of Napoleon in Place Vendôme, which was melted down. The new statue was cast from a mold made using a surviving cast of the original. Inside the statue, the new sculptor François-Frédéric Lemot put four boxes, containing a history of the life of Henry IV, a 17th-century parchment certifying the original statue, a document describing how the new statue was commissioned.)

Saint-Jacques Tower (Tour Saint-Jacques) and Théâtre du Châtelet (Saint-Jacques Tower (Tour Saint-Jacques) is a monument located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France, on Rue de Rivoli at Rue Nicolas Flamel. This 52-metre (171 ft) Flamboyant Gothic tower is all that remains of the former 16th-century Church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie ("Saint James of the butchery"), which was demolished in 1797, during the French Revolution, - like many other churches, leaving only the tower. The Théâtre du Châtelet is a theatre and opera house, located in the place du Châtelet in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.)

Georgia in the Conciergere

Vaulted ceilings-Conciergerie (The Hall of the Guards, one of the largest surviving medieval parts of the Conciergerie)

La Conciergerie Horloge (Clock) (This magnificent clock dates from the 15th Century (although it has been restored several times since, the last one being 1909) and was the first public clock in Paris.)

La Conciergerie

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