My Paris

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Parisian Demonstration

Young Arabian woman under Tour Eiffel. Demonstration against Israel aggression on Lebanon. Paris 2006.

"Talking eyes".

Paris,Trocadéro,2006

Paris,Trocadéro. 2006

"Hors de combat". Lebanon flag perforated by bullets.
Paris,Trocadéro. 2006

"Arretez ces crimes". "Stop these crimes". Paris,Trocadéro. 2006

"Listen, the one and only, listen to street noise / This is the today poem, today love. Once again the rhythm is the only transition: Rodin, Ucello, Cohn-Bendit, Nanterre / Boul'Mich on the first barricade…, a cup of coffee among protestors, sometimes sensitivity / night rhythm in the voice Marcuse'a, street noise, Levi-Strauss, Jevtushenko , the names of love changes as the days, today is Jean-Luc Godard, and Polanski tomorrow… / " Poem about May Parisian streets by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar (interpretation: J.D.)

Double-decker type "open-deck" - no overhead protection.

Near the Opera - he is vindicated!

Seine river has many faces

Seine river divides two beautiful parts of Paris. Much here are the stationary ships - cafes and hotels and houses on the water. For the rich - luxury. For the poor - ordinary barges.

"…River selected from a foreign world, flows through our history"
“Seine” by Polish poet Kazimierz Wierzyński

A little different Seine - before the storm.

Batobus - a water bus - a regular line by the Seine.

Polish accents
Over the Seine river came Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, a brilliant interpreter of French writers, to bought a books from the riverine secondhand bookseller. Over the Seine also came poet Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska with her dolorific lost love. In the Seine made a hole in the water Bronisław Piłsudzki, an outstanding ethnographer - brother of Józef Piłsudzki, the great restorer of Poland after slavery. Above the Seine river banks, at Pont Neuf bridge met one's a death Piotr Curie, the husband of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, the Polish twice Nobel laureate. About the Seine wrote Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Juliusz Słowacki and Kazimierz Wierzyński.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The different faces of Paris

"O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee."
Rue de Bac " Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal".

Tears worse than bullets bores

Hotel Crillon service - waiting for Madonna

“I see in my soul many faces of unknown parentage - born in such short flashings. I do not know who, I do not know where, when, I do not know anything about them. But they lives in me (...),dormants at the photos… ".
Wieslaw Mysliwski, Polish writer
(Very free translation J.D.)

Different faces, different people - Paris metro

The mountains have brought forth a mouse?

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Notre-Dame de Paris - Our Lady

Notre Dame de Paris as the 'World Ambassador of Gothic Cathedrals.

Cite Island with one of the flagship facility of Paris - Notre Dame. And here are the Polish accents too. Starting from the Henryk Andegaweński (Henri de Valois, the king of Poland and France) oath of Pacta Conventa, through the first meeting by biggest Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz with mystic Andrzej Towiański and commemorates the anniversary of the millennium of Poland baptism in 1966, on the visit of Pope John Paul II in this place ending.

Victor Hugo was just twenty eight years old when he wrote his novel: Notre Dame de Paris. Set in the medieval period, it tells the story of the deformed Quasimodo, ward of the cathedral, and his ill-fated love for the beautiful Gypsy dancer, Esmeralda.