Thu 31.Mar.2022
Paris, France
Imagery - Feb 2022
Where to meet famous dead people in Paris?
Montparnasse Cemetery, for one.
Once I found poet Charles Baudelaire there.
Writers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre actually share a grave.
Not this one though, this is just some picturesque view.
This visit I found twentieth-century playwrite Eugene Ionesco.
Mathematician Henri Poincare shares a family grave with his kin.
A more or less anonymous scupltor has the misfortune of sounding like
a twentieth-century movie star, to the apparent chagrin of his living heirs.
Crossing the Seine on a bright chilly day, at the Pont d'Austerlitz.
The Green Coulee
The Coulée verte - aka Promenade plantée, an elevated linear park
that arcs across the 12th Arrondissment on the route of a former rail line.
I hope to explore it better on a future visit - perhaps walk its length from
Place de la Bastille out to the Bois de Vincennes on the southeastern edge of
the city.
Cafe sitting - that eternal joy of Paris.
The 14th Arrondissment.
An anonymous old buildng on Boulevard Raspail.
Place Denfert-Rochereau, with its striking lion,
from the sculptor who did the Statue of Liberty.
My hotel this time, just off Denfert-Rochereau, near the pedestrian market
street of Rue Daguerre. Since I discovered this neighborhood, I have made it
my home base on visits to Paris.
In February -
rain puddles come with the territory.