The Paris Savannah Connection

23 years ago, two of the most exclusive streets in the Western World decided to become sisters!

Avenue Montaigne in Paris and Madison Avenue in New York.

Happy anniversary!

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There is an impressive exhibit at the Grand Palais entitled “La Voie du Tao” which draws a very contemplative, respectful and rather silent public. No crowds, no noise. As though the exhibit itself was what we imagine as Zen.

The entrance ticket. Tao?

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On one side of the street, there are … numbers like these …

even numbers … but also round numbers:

or 1700 a little further down the street

and … 1607 on the other side

1900 … (nineteen hundred!)

another odd one, too:

Unlike the Jardin de Luxembourg in Paris …which has many addresses, including that lucky seven,

this park on Mount Curve didn’t have a number posted anywhere.

Is it because it belongs to everyone ?

Enjoy!

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Sculpture … painting … photographs … artifacts … furniture and  fashion all find their way into museums and exhibits.

Mona Bismarck was a countess who created a Foundation in her Parisian mansion located on the Avenue de New York.  And right now, there is a very off-the-beaten-track exhibit entitled “Buttons: an artistic phenomenon, historical and cultural.” Hats off to Loïc Allio, collector and artist whose passion is shared by artists and historians … and who will delight you with his stories … in English or in French.

You are the Countess’ guest. No admission charge.

Inside …

there are thousands of these. All shapes, sizes, colors, materials, designs, ages.

dating from ancient history to modern fashion design. A must.

Buttoning and unbuttoning: a subject for another day!

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distances … measuring how far … or how close!

In our age of precision, we have learned that … we strive for precision but that … actually, statistically, nothing is perfectly exact.

We ordinarily say that 1 mile is equal to 1.6 kilometers and that 1 kilometer is .6 of a mile.

For most practical purposes, this is sufficient. This is, in Donald Winnicott’s terms, “good enough.” … Maybe even better, in the circumstances, than precision down the scale:

kilometer

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What’s the equivalence?

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mile

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meter

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((A meter equals 39.37 inches. Their house has floor space of 200 square meters. A square meter is equal to 1.196 square yards.)) And then there are other meters, too … like parking meters … electricity and gas meters …

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centimeter

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One hundred centimeters …

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and a view OF Stirling Castle which you can get to from either Edinburgh or Glasgow.

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And here’s a link to the Wikipedia article … lest we forget!

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Where is Savannah?

The city of Savannah is on the east coast of the USA, in the state of Georgia, just north of Florida and just across the Savannah River from South Carolina, about 20 miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean.

Here’s a Google map!

Show me where Savannah is

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