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Honoring Jean Moulin and André Malraux at the French Panthéon

Jean Moulin was a high-profile member of the French Resistance during World War II.[1] He is remembered today as an emblem of the Resistance primarily due to his role in unifying the French resistance under de Gaulle and his courage and death at the hands of the Germans.

André Malraux was a French adventurer, award-winning author, and statesman. Having traveled extensively in Indochina and China, Malraux was noted especially for his novel entitled La Condition Humaine (Man’s Fate) (1933), which won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by General Charles de Gaulle as Minister of Information (1945–1946), then as Minister of State (1958–1959), and the first Minister of Cultural Affairs, serving during De Gaulle’s entire presidency (1959–1969).

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From our favorite sign maker …

Fortunately, there’s enough traffic to give us time to read it, understand it, digest it and react!

Well, understanding it might take a while … but who cares?  

 

and then there’s one of my favorites here. …. and you have to pay particular attention when crossing … Boulevard Montparnasse.

For those of you who want to delve into this a little further … on this one, there were clearly good intentions… 

For more … just type “signs” in the search box!

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A closeup by Rasmus Reeh

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On November 9th, 1989 …

 

and the wall came tumbling down.


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Private Paris

It takes the New York Times to let us in on our own secrets!

If you’d like a taste of secret Paris, here’s the first course.

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Photography in Paris: Eugène Atget … then and now.

From the New York Times

Photographer Ed Alcock discusses how he went about taking contemporary images of Paris by following the examples of Eugène Atget.

 

Here’s the video from the NYT: 

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It’s obvious.

évident, n’est-ce pas ?

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Green light.

but … who is it for?

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“As busy as a bee”

Beehives in the Luxembourg Gardens.

“As busy as a bee”

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one sign, good intentions

The sign seems simple enough to understand:

On the right, the big (buses) and the small (bicycles) must proceed forward through the intersection.

On the left, everything else turns right. Is this what has happened to French politics?

and …

the reality :

Fortunately, it wasn’t raining. Like that, I could take these 2 pix  through the windshield.

Isn’t there a proverb that says … something about roads paved with good intentions ?

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