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Charles Marville, Rue Tirechappe from Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris, 1858-78

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Cours d’Histoire Naturelle -from a collection of one student’s entire year of work, 1897

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‘Luna Park’, Paris, 1910

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yama-bato:

Brassaï, Platane Parisien

René Char. What comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.

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mitford:

Robert Doisneau

In my mind, this photograph is the turtle dove to:

Tearing his eyes from the empty place in the sky where the sun had set, he stopped stumbling back by years and ran, vaulted through centuries. The letter he had torn in pieces lay on the morning air for an instant, was caught, spread up over the ground and blew away from him like a handful of white birds startled into the sky.

— W. Gaddis

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French botanist Jeanne Baret disguised herself as a man to join Louis Antoine de Bougainville’s expedition on the ships La Boudeuse and Étoile in the 1700s, acting as assistant to the expedition’s naturalist, Philibert Commerçon. She collected thousands of plants, including, in all likelihood, the first specimen of one of the world’s most beloved flowering plants — bougainvillea.

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, from “Au Cirque”, Paris, 1905

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modelhaus:

Rose-Marie pour Givenchy, 1959

Nairn’s Paris by Covers etc on Flickr.

Ian Nairn on Paris, from the year of “les événements”. Cover photo by Dennis Rolfe.

Louis Daguerre, ‘Boulevard du Temple’ (1838)

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pollyvousfrancais:

French money from 1790
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soircharmant:

Jean-Léon Gérôme - Deux générations sur le pas de la porte, n.d.

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen

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lauramcphee:

Cafe du Dome, Winter Morning, Paris, 1928 (Andre Kertesz)

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an envelope comme il faut, c. 1868

Calligraphies, lettres et écritures

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