Showing posts with label Paris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paris. Show all posts
A Delightful Activity
Dennis Callan delights us with another of his travel videos. This time on the River Seine.
From the YouTube Video Description: Boat ride on the Seine in Paris is one of the most delightful activities in your visit, passing the Eiffel Tower and other landmarks of the city, capital of France. Most of this ride is at sunset, a fine time to do it. Only takes one hour, costs about $15, ride outside for full effect or inside if you are cold, and you can purchase beverage of your choice before boarding.
A Parisian New Year's Eve
Paris is one of the most colorful and exciting places to celebrate New Year's Eve. Parisians prepare a big meal for their family on this day. Enjoy a taste of French life!
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The Importance of French Impressionism
There are lots of "isms" in the art world, and Impressionism is one of the more important art movements in regard to the influence it has had on other forms of art since it's inception.
Description
"Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists. Their independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s, in spite of harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France. The name of the style derives from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satirical review published in the Parisian newspaper Le Charivari." - Wilipedia
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Degas - Place de la Concorde
Edgar Degas - Place de la Concorde. Music - Claude Debussy, "Girl with the Golden Hair"
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The Paris Catacombs
The Catacombs is a tour you should not miss, although I would not suggest it for the faint of heart.
For over 300 years, millions of the dead of Paris were buried beneath the streets of the city. Come along as we travel underground to the Paris Catacombs and see what many say is one of the scariest places on Earth.
Cemeteries in Paris
"Paris' earliest burial grounds were to the southern outskirts of the Roman-era Left Bank city. In ruins after the Roman empire's 5th-century that fall and the ensuing Frankish invasions, Parisians eventually abandoned this settlement for the marshy Right Bank: from the 4th-century, the first known settlement there was on higher ground around a Saint-Etienne church and burial ground (behind today's Hôtel de Ville), and Right Bank urban expansion began in earnest after other ecclesiastical landowners filled in the marshlands from the late 10th century. Thus, instead of burying its dead away from inhabited areas as per usual human customs, the Paris Right Bank settlement began its life with cemeteries at its very centre." Source: Wikipedia
Les Catacombes Official Website Link
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Parisian Arcades
Original Video Caption
Today there may only be around 20 of the original arcades that were in Paris in the 1850s. These famous arcades are used by Parisians purely by chance as shortcuts or simply for pleasure. Each arcade has special characteristics, and they all are actually private roads.
Overview
"Parisian arcades began to be constructed around the beginning of the nineteenth century and were sometimes destroyed as a result of Baron Haussmann's renovation of Paris during the Second French Empire (ca. 1850-1870). Benjamin linked them to the city's distinctive street life and saw them as providing one of the habitats of the Flâneur (i.e., strolling in a locale to experience it)." Source: Wikipedia
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