I wanted to call this post simply One Night in Paris but someone ruined that for me. These photos are what we saw along the way when we walked from our flat in the Latin Quarter down to Rue Mouffetard one evening in April. It was light when we headed out:
The Pantheon
Detail of the Pantheon
I, uh, don't know
The steeple of I don't know
The Pantheon
Detail of the Pantheon
I, uh, don't know
The steeple of I don't know
The street off Rue Mouffetard where we ate
Down a bit we found some street art by Jef Aerosol, with random scribbles by the less inspired who likely just stopped to take a whiz and happened to find a black Sharpie in their pocket:
If you're familiar with automatic writing and/or a fan of André Breton and Surrealism you may be interested in the Hotel des Grands Hommes. Breton lived there and created surrealist automatic writing with Philipe Soupault. There they wrote Les Champs Magnetiques, Surrealism's first literary work. (I can't not mention this - when I first wrote 'automatic writing' I actually wrote 'automatic thinking' which is making me laugh because it seems to be a process that eludes me as of late!)
I'm not really sure why it says 1919-1989 since the hotel is obviously still there.
Or is my lack of capacity for automatic thinking causing me to miss something?
awesome post! Love these picstures
Posted by: Shrimpton Couture | June 25, 2009 at 02:02 AM
Found you via shrimpton couture on twitter, love the blog and the photos.
Posted by: Jenn Hughes | June 25, 2009 at 02:10 AM
Ohh, I love the street art! So neat!
Posted by: Michelle | June 25, 2009 at 03:36 AM
Great pictures!
I lived in Paris for two years and one of my biggest regrets is not taking enough photos of the magical place!
Belleville is also quite a good place for quirky street art
xx
Posted by: Caz | June 25, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Gorgeous pictures - thanks for sharing! I'm ashamed to say I've not spent nearly enough time in the Latin Quarter... mainly becauase I live on the other side of town. I will definitely need to make a point of going there soon. Like you, there are lots of 'i don't know whats' I see though... sometimes I make up a name if I'm showing people around... I'm bad that way.
Love the street art by the way...
p.s. of course we can meet up in Paris. I'll send you an email!
Posted by: HauteWorld | June 25, 2009 at 01:48 PM
Shrimpton and Michelle - thanks! Paris just gives and gives!
Jenn - welcome! thanks so much for coming by!
Caz - I did a search and see what you mean! If I had more time my next trip I'd go see for myself. Something for our next long trip.
Haute - I think when you know something's always going to be there it's easy to put it off. I'll have to start making up names, too! If I stopped to find out what everything is I'd never see anything! And is it wrong that I don't really care? Looking forward to your email - hope we can meet up!!! xxx
Posted by: Denise @ Swelle | June 25, 2009 at 04:07 PM
Amazing pictures. You make me want to go back to Paris. Like hop on a plane right now for a long weekend! :D
Posted by: dreamsequins | June 25, 2009 at 04:42 PM
I was considering on staying in this hotel for our last trip to Paris (May 2009), but not sure why we didn't book this. We ended up staying at Avenue de la Motte Picquet in the 7th, around Ecole Militaire metro.
Great photos, by the way!
Posted by: Jen Laceda | July 10, 2009 at 04:02 AM