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"Fountain of Shame", Palermo. A Renaissance face and a cap known from antiquity and one that would play a role in the French Revolution of 1789.
This sleepy village in the Argonne earned its place in history books when on 21 June 1791 king Louis XVI and the royal family, hoping to escape the revolutionary government in Paris, were stopped and arrested here. Had they succeeded the Revolution might have gone in another direction.
Varennes-en-Argonne, Meuse, France.
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With the detailed statues and water spray, this fountain in Bordeaux, France, looks like an action movie. The horses have webbed and clawed hoofs.
It was created between 1894 and 1902 in honour of the Girondins, a group of moderate, bourgeois National Assembly deputies during the French Revolution, 22 of whom were executed in 1793 after being convicted of counter-revolutionary activities.
We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven? — Is he in hell?
That damned, elusive Pimpernel
This beautiful desert plant from Mexico was first described scientifically by William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) in 1856. It had been long neglected - more than half a century - at the Kew Gardens, as Hooker writes, and had come into their possesion through the good offices of Jacques Philippe Martin Cels (1740-1806) of Paris, self-taught botanist who during the French Revolution had lost his job as a tax collector.
It was 'rediscovered' by Charles Christopher Parry (1823-1890), a botanist and mountaineer, and Edward Palmer (1829-1911) during an expedition into Mexico in San Luis Potosi. Their herbarium specimen of 1878 is still extant. You can see a picture of it on the Tropicos website. But live is always better! Here it is in Amsterdam's fine Hortus Botanicus.
Of all the baroque and opulently gold-plated church interiors of Porto this one, Nossa Senhora de Vitoria, is perhaps the least exuberant one. The most decent one, seen from my Protestant and liberal viewpoint. Decency is a tricky category. In this case, for two reasons: the church, built on land once belonging to the Jewish community, has "Victory" in its title and, secondly, the traditional defence of the unbelievably expensive gold-plating (namely, that believers would think they were already in heaven) does no longer work. Is it not remarkable that the Church in Porto wrapped itself in gold when, at the same time, in France you had the Revolution of 1789 doing away with Christianity?
John the Blind or John of Luxembourg, was the Count of Luxembourg from 1313 and King of Bohemia from 1310 and titular King of Poland. He is well known for having died while fighting in the Battle of Crécy at age 50, after having been blind for a decade. Originaly he was burried in Old-Minster Abbey which was destroyed in 1543. During the the French Revolution, the mortal remains were salvaged by the Villeroy & Boch industrialist family and hidden in an attic room. Later they moved to the Klause chapel built in 1834 near Kastel-Staadt on a rock above the town. In 1945, the Luxembourg government moved the remains to the crypt of the Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg. Type=N, Mode=P, DE=None
On the behalf of king Louis XVI of France, Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755-1834), then still a catholic clergyman, traveled in Algeria and Tunisia on a voyage of exploration 1785-1786. He published his findings still an abbé in 1789, the year of the French Revolution. The king, of course, was deposed and Poiret left the church to become a well-known naturalist. In his Voyage he described many of his findings in northern Africa, notably of plants. He waxes particularly eloquent over our flower which he knew as Antirrhinum pinifolium: 'Ceste plante se fait remarquer par sa beauté & sa grandeur'. Indeed! In the Hortus here it was today being visited by a Tree Bumblebee. The inset gives a view of how you usually see this Linaria from above.
The Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), or National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, is a famous and prestigious doctoral degree-granting higher education establishment (or grand établissement) and Grande école which means elites school, operated by the French government, dedicated to providing education and conducting research for the promotion of science and industry. It has a large museum of inventions accessible to the public with over 250 000 visitors per year.
It was founded on 10 October 1794, during the French Revolution.
The museum has over 80,000 objects and 15,000 drawings in its collection, of which about 2,500 are on display in Paris. The rest of the collection is preserved in a storehouse in Saint-Denis. Among its collection is an original version of the Foucault pendulum, the original model of the Statue of Liberty by Auguste Bartholdi, some of the first planes (Clément Ader's Avion III, Louis Blériot's Blériot XI...), Blaise Pascal's Pascaline (the first mechanical calculator).
Monument to the Girondins (1894-1902). The Triumph of the Republic.
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The Girondins were an important political group in the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention during the early years of the French Revolution. Many of the Girondins came from Bordeaux in the department of Gironde. In 1793, most of the prominent Girondins were guillotined by their political rivals.
During the second world war, when France was occupied by the German army, the horses and all of the others statues were dismantled in 1943 in order to be melted down for their 52 tons of bronze. But after the war, they were amazingly found intact in Angers and returned to Bordeaux where they were finally reinstalled in 1982.
La Galicière est une ancienne usine de moulinage de la soie de la fin du 18ème siècle, située à Chatte, dans le département de l'Isère, près de St Marcellin, au pied du Vercors.
Son état de conservation (arrêt de la production en 1920, sans que les machines datant de la révolution française soient vidées des lieux) en font « une capsule de temps », unique en France, voire en Europe.
L'usine pouvait être visitée à l'occasion des journées du Patrimoine, et les récits de la vie de ce moulinage et de ses ouvrières étaient présentés par l'association en charge de ce patrimoine et par les nouveaux propriétaires des lieux (un couple d'architectes).
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La Galicière is a former silk mill factory from the end of the 18th century, located in Chatte, in the department of Isère, near St Marcellin. France
Its state of conservation (production stopped in 1920, without the machines dating from the French revolution being emptied from the premises) makes it “a time capsule”, unique in France, even in Europe.
The factory could be visited on the occasion of Heritage Days, and the story of the life of this mill and its female workers was presented by the association in charge of this heritage and by the new owners of the place (a couple of architects).
The Musée des Augustins de Toulouse is a fine arts museum in Toulouse, France which conserves a collection of sculpture and paintings from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. The paintings are from throughout France, the sculptures representing Occitan culture of the region with a particularly rich assemblage of Romanesque sculpture. The building in which the museum is sited was built in 1309 in the Gothic style and prior to the French Revolution housed Toulouse's Augustinian convent. The convent was secularized in 1793 and first opened to the public as a museum on 27 August 1795 by decree of the French Convention, very shortly after the opening of the Louvre, making it one of the oldest museums in France after the Louvre and the Musée des Beaux Arts in Besançon. It at first housed the Muséum Provisoire du Midi de la République and the école des Beaux-Arts. The Musée des Augustins de Toulouse was one of fifteen museums founded in provincial centres, by a decree of 13 Fructidor year IX (31 August 1801), which was promulgated by the minister of the interior, Jean-Antoine Chaptal (Arrêté Chaptal du 14 fructidor an IX). At the start of the 19th century several medieval buildings (notably the refectory) were demolished and in their place Viollet-le-Duc and his pupil Darcy put up new exhibition galleries, accessed by a Gothic Revival monumental stair offering an interplay of richly complicated vaulting systems. The works continued from 1873 to 1901, when the museum reopened. In effect, Toulouse commissioned Urbain Vitry to ensure remove all the convent's religious characteristics. The archaeologist Alexandre Du Mège occupied the cloister and rebuilt it to be able to house the medieval collections gathered from Toulouse's destroyed religious buildings such as the basilique Saint-Sernin. Today the cloister houses a reconstructed medieval garden. The building was classed as a Monument historique in 1840. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musée_des_Augustins
Near Paris, France. The Château de Versailles, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the most beautiful achievements of 18th-century French art. The site began as Louis XIII's hunting lodge before his son Louis XIV transformed and expanded it, moving the court and government of France to Versailles in 1682. Each of the three French kings who lived there until the French Revolution in 1789 added improvements to make it more beautiful. The Château of Versailles plus its grounds covers 2,014 acres, making it the World’s Largest Royal Domain.
John the Blind or John of Luxembourg, was the Count of Luxembourg from 1313 and King of Bohemia from 1310 and titular King of Poland. He is well known for having died while fighting in the Battle of Crécy at age 50, after having been blind for a decade. Originaly he was burried in Old-Minster Abbey which was destroyed in 1543. During the the French Revolution, the mortal remains were salvaged by the Villeroy & Boch industrialist family and hidden in an attic room. Later they moved to the Klause chapel built in 1834 near Kastel-Staadt on a rock above the town. In 1945, the Luxembourg government moved the remains to the crypt of the Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg.
Saint-Jacques Tower (Tour Saint-Jacques) is a monument located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France, on Rue de Rivoli at Rue Nicolas Flamel. This 52-metre (171 ft) Flamboyant Gothic tower is all that remains of the former 16th-century Church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie ("Saint James of the butchers"), which was demolished in 1797, during the French Revolution, leaving only the tower. What remains of the destroyed church of St. Jacques La Boucherie is now considered a national historic landmark. The closest métro station is Châtelet.
At a celebration of the Races of Castlebar when in 1798 combined French and Irish forces routed the English army at what became known as The Races of Castlebar. They went on to declare "The Republic of Connaught" - short lived though it proved to be.
A imagem apresenta um detalhe do interior da Sainte-Chapelle, em Paris, um magnífico exemplo do estilo gótico radiante. A capela superior, construída no século XIII por ordem de Luís IX para albergar relíquias sagradas da Paixão de Cristo – incluindo a Coroa de Espinhos –, destaca-se pela sua estrutura gótica, com uma abóbada estrelada em tons de azul e dourado que simboliza o céu. Os seus imponentes vitrais, que ocupam quase toda a superfície das paredes, narram a história bíblica em mais de 1113 cenas distribuídas por 15 painéis, criando um efeito luminoso de grande espiritualidade e majestade. No centro, sobressai um baldaquino, elemento arquitetónico crucial. Construído na década de 1260 e restaurado no século XIX (após a sua destruição durante a Revolução Francesa), este baldaquino, de estilo gótico igualmente esguio e elevado, servia de suporte para a Arca das Relíquias. Esta arca, que continha as relíquias sagradas – originalmente feita de prata e cobre dourado, mas também destruída durante a Revolução Francesa – era protegida e realçada pelo baldaquino, funcionando como um dossel cerimonial que conferia maior importância visual e simbólica às relíquias. A sua decoração, com elementos esculpidos como anjos e motivos florais, e o teto decorado com motivos estrelados, completam a riqueza estética da capela, contribuindo para a ligação entre o terrestre e o divino, e reforçando a função da monarquia francesa como protetora da fé. A Arca das Relíquias permaneceu na Sainte-Chapelle até à Revolução Francesa, altura em que as relíquias foram transferidas para Notre-Dame. Apesar da perda da sua função original, o baldaquino mantém-se como testemunho da importância religiosa e política das relíquias na Idade Média, funcionando como elemento focal da liturgia e um dos pontos mais importantes da composição estética e litúrgica da capela, concebida como um imenso relicário arquitetónico.
#QUEEN MARIE ANTOINETTE
was executed by guillotine on 16 October 1793.
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Marie Antoinette, born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna (2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an Archduchess of Austria, and was the fifteenth and second youngest child of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. In April 1770, upon her marriage to Louis-Auguste, heir apparent to the French throne, she became Dauphine of France. On 10 May 1774, when her husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI, she assumed the title Queen of France and Navarre. During the Revolution, she became known as Madame Déficit because the country's financial crisis was blamed on her lavish spending and her opposition to the social and financial reforms. Marie Antoinette was convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of high treason and executed by guillotine on the Place de la Révolution on 16 October 1793.
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Marie Antoinette (2. November 1755 - 16. Oktober 1793) war die letzte Königin von Frankreich vor der Französischen Revolution. Sie war als Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna geborene Erzherzogin von Österreich sowie Prinzessin von Ungarn, Böhmen und der Toskana und entstammte dem Haus Habsburg-Lothringen. 1769 wurde sie durch ihre Heirat mit dem französischen Thronfolger zunächst Dauphins. Fünf Jahre später wurde sie - durch dessen Thronbesteigung als König Ludwig XVI. - Königin von Frankreich und Navarra. Während der Französischen Revolution galt sie der aufständischen und notleidenden Bevölkerung aufgrund ihres verschwenderischen Lebensstils als eine der am meisten verachteten Personen der höfischen Gesellschaft. Marie Antoinette wurde vom Revolutionären Tribunal des Hochverrats verurteilt und am 16. Oktober 1793 durch die Guillotine am Place de la Révolution hingerichtet.
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Encore une série de photos de la Galicière, ancienne usine de moulinage de la soie de la fin du 18ème siècle, située à Chatte, dans le département de l'Isère, près de St Marcellin, au pied du Vercors.
Son état de conservation (arrêt de la production en 1920, sans que les machines datant de la révolution française soient vidées des lieux) en font « une capsule de temps », unique en France, voire en Europe.
L'usine pouvait être visitée à l'occasion des journées du Patrimoine, et les récits de la vie de ce moulinage et de ses ouvrières étaient présentés par l'association en charge de ce patrimoine et par les nouveaux propriétaires des lieux (un couple d'architectes).
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La Galicière is a former silk mill factory from the end of the 18th century, located in Chatte, in the department of Isère, near St Marcellin. France
Its state of conservation (production stopped in 1920, without the machines dating from the French revolution being emptied from the premises) makes it “a time capsule”, unique in France, even in Europe.
The factory could be visited on the occasion of Heritage Days, and the story of the life of this mill and its female workers was presented by the association in charge of this heritage and by the new owners of the place (a couple of architects).
Encore une série de photos de la Galicière, ancienne usine de moulinage de la soie de la fin du 18ème siècle, située à Chatte, dans le département de l'Isère, près de St Marcellin, au pied du Vercors.
Son état de conservation (arrêt de la production en 1920, sans que les machines datant de la révolution française soient vidées des lieux) en font « une capsule de temps », unique en France, voire en Europe.
L'usine pouvait être visitée à l'occasion des journées du Patrimoine, et les récits de la vie de ce moulinage et de ses ouvrières étaient présentés par l'association en charge de ce patrimoine et par les nouveaux propriétaires des lieux (un couple d'architectes).
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La Galicière is a former silk mill factory from the end of the 18th century, located in Chatte, in the department of Isère, near St Marcellin. France
Its state of conservation (production stopped in 1920, without the machines dating from the French revolution being emptied from the premises) makes it “a time capsule”, unique in France, even in Europe.
The factory could be visited on the occasion of Heritage Days, and the story of the life of this mill and its female workers was presented by the association in charge of this heritage and by the new owners of the place (a couple of architects).
La Galicière est une ancienne usine de moulinage de la soie de la fin du 18ème siècle, située à Chatte, dans le département de l'Isère, près de St Marcellin, au pied du Vercors.
Son état de conservation (arrêt de la production en 1920, sans que les machines datant de la révolution française soient vidées des lieux) en font « une capsule de temps », unique en France, voire en Europe.
L'usine pouvait être visitée à l'occasion des journées du Patrimoine, et les récits de la vie de ce moulinage et de ses ouvrières étaient présentés par l'association en charge de ce patrimoine et par les nouveaux propriétaires des lieux (un couple d'architectes).
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La Galicière is a former silk mill factory from the end of the 18th century, located in Chatte, in the department of Isère, near St Marcellin. France
Its state of conservation (production stopped in 1920, without the machines dating from the French revolution being emptied from the premises) makes it “a time capsule”, unique in France, even in Europe.
The factory could be visited on the occasion of Heritage Days, and the story of the life of this mill and its female workers was presented by the association in charge of this heritage and by the new owners of the place (a couple of architects).
Encore une série de photos de la Galicière, ancienne usine de moulinage de la soie de la fin du 18ème siècle, située à Chatte, dans le département de l'Isère, près de St Marcellin, au pied du Vercors.
Son état de conservation (arrêt de la production en 1920, sans que les machines datant de la révolution française soient vidées des lieux) en font « une capsule de temps », unique en France, voire en Europe.
L'usine pouvait être visitée à l'occasion des journées du Patrimoine, et les récits de la vie de ce moulinage et de ses ouvrières étaient présentés par l'association en charge de ce patrimoine et par les nouveaux propriétaires des lieux (un couple d'architectes).
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La Galicière is a former silk mill factory from the end of the 18th century, located in Chatte, in the department of Isère, near St Marcellin. France
Its state of conservation (production stopped in 1920, without the machines dating from the French revolution being emptied from the premises) makes it “a time capsule”, unique in France, even in Europe.
The factory could be visited on the occasion of Heritage Days, and the story of the life of this mill and its female workers was presented by the association in charge of this heritage and by the new owners of the place (a couple of architects).
There was very little in flower in the dryness of the Pico del Teide at this time of the year but I pottered about a bit and in a broomy shrub of Erysimum scoparium found this pretty little inflorescence lifting its heads to the Sun.
Erysimum scoparium was first collected around 1800 by Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet (1761-1807). Broussonet was a fine classical scholar but his heart went out to natural history in the Linnaean tradition and he specialised in ichthyology, obtaining a doctorate on the breathing of fishes already in 1778. Keen on continuing this work he moved to London to study specimens of fish collected by those great traveling naturalists of the British Empire. But his socio-political heart drew him back to France just before the Revolution of 1789. Intent on improving agriculture Broussonet became a professor of rural economy. Then came the horrors of 1789 and he crossed the Pyrenees to Spain. There and in Morocco he made naturalist collections but also kept an eye out for a political job preferably one that would allow him to continue his researches. Returned to France he soon landed a position as vice-consul at Mogador. The plague drove him and his family to Tenerife in 1799. Here he collected around 1500 specimens, among them this Erysimum. Broussonet was just preparing to describe his collection when he died in 1807.
Our Plant - endemic to the Canary Islands - was first published by Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1812) in 1809 (under the name Cheiranthus scoparius).
The Conciergerie is a former prison in Paris, France, located on the west of the Île de la Cité (literally "Island of the City") presently mostly used for law courts. It was part of the former royal palace, the Palais de la Cité, which consisted of the Conciergerie, Palais de Justice and the Sainte-Chapelle. Hundreds of prisoners during the French Revolution were taken from the Conciergerie to be executed on the guillotine at a number of locations around Paris. A splendid Gothic palace. The Salle des Gardes (Guards Room) and the immense Salle des Gens d'armes (Hall of the soldiers), built under King Philip the Fair, still remain from the days of the medieval palace, as do the kitchens built under King John the Good. From a Royal residence to a Palace of Justice. The Kings of France abandoned the palace at the end of the 14th century to settle in the Louvre and in Vincennes. It then took on a judicial role, and part of the palace was converted into prison cells. Revolutionary prison. The Conciergerie became one of the principal places of detention during the French Revolution, with the installation of the Revolutionary Court. Its most famous prisoner was Marie-Antoinette. During the Restoration, a commemorative chapel was erected on the site of her cell. www.paris-conciergerie.fr/en
Ambling up the Boulevard Malesherbes to a restaurant near La Madeleine I saw this Light and Dark. It reminded me immediately of a history lesson more than half a century ago. My teacher in usual rhetorical display was telling us about the infamous 'lettres de cachet' in France before the Revolution. You could be jailed without cause or even knowing about it if the King deigned right, thrust for as long as he liked from the light of day into the darkness of prison... I shivered, and nodded my head still in the thrall of Le Comte de Monte-Cristo.
And here I was on the street named after the very man - Chrétien-Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721-1794) - who as a minister of King Louis XVI tried to put an end to this practice. Unsuccessfully.
The Light and the Dark of the French Revolution has been the topic of very many discussions. That the light of liberty then was not as clear and much more shot through with darkness than we like to think in hindsight might be illustrated by Malesherbes' life. He was unsuccessful in the 'lettres de cachet' affaire, but remained the king's minister. He was put in charge of the office overseeing the right to publish and print books and - not changing the rules - allowed 'insidious' literature into the country. In the end he defended Louis XVI at his trial but remained a luminary of free thought and political liberty. In fact, he was at odds with Voltaire, the great revolutionary, who severely clamped down on the free press.
Indeed, an instance of the light and the dark.
It was only a matter of time before Malesherbes was arrested at the end of 1793. After having been made to watch the execution of children and grandchildren, he was himself guillotined on April 22, 1794, surviving Voltaire, who died in his own bed, by six years.
This boulevard was named after Our Hero in 1824.
La Galicière est une ancienne usine de moulinage de la soie de la fin du 18ème siècle, située à Chatte, dans le département de l'Isère, près de St Marcellin, au pied du Vercors.
Son état de conservation (arrêt de la production en 1920, sans que les machines datant de la révolution française soient vidées des lieux) en font « une capsule de temps », unique en France, voire en Europe.
L'usine pouvait être visitée à l'occasion des journées du Patrimoine, et les récits de la vie de ce moulinage et de ses ouvrières étaient présentés par l'association en charge de ce patrimoine et par les nouveaux propriétaires des lieux (un couple d'architectes).
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La Galicière is a former silk mill factory from the end of the 18th century, located in Chatte, in the department of Isère, near St Marcellin. France
Its state of conservation (production stopped in 1920, without the machines dating from the French revolution being emptied from the premises) makes it “a time capsule”, unique in France, even in Europe.
The factory could be visited on the occasion of Heritage Days, and the story of the life of this mill and its female workers was presented by the association in charge of this heritage and by the new owners of the place (a couple of architects).
Painted on the walls of the Metro "Bastille"
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The abbey was started in 1145. The benedictine order of monks remained there until the late eighteenth century and only in the Revolution was the abbey reduced to how we see it now. A very peaceful place now.
The Musée des Augustins de Toulouse is a fine arts museum in Toulouse, France which conserves a collection of sculpture and paintings from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. The paintings are from throughout France, the sculptures representing Occitan culture of the region with a particularly rich assemblage of Romanesque sculpture. The building in which the museum is sited was built in 1309 in the Gothic style and prior to the French Revolution housed Toulouse's Augustinian convent. The convent was secularized in 1793 and first opened to the public as a museum on 27 August 1795 by decree of the French Convention, very shortly after the opening of the Louvre, making it one of the oldest museums in France after the Louvre and the Musée des Beaux Arts in Besançon. It at first housed the Muséum Provisoire du Midi de la République and the école des Beaux-Arts. The Musée des Augustins de Toulouse was one of fifteen museums founded in provincial centres, by a decree of 13 Fructidor year IX (31 August 1801), which was promulgated by the minister of the interior, Jean-Antoine Chaptal (Arrêté Chaptal du 14 fructidor an IX). At the start of the 19th century several medieval buildings (notably the refectory) were demolished and in their place Viollet-le-Duc and his pupil Darcy put up new exhibition galleries, accessed by a Gothic Revival monumental stair offering an interplay of richly complicated vaulting systems. The works continued from 1873 to 1901, when the museum reopened. In effect, Toulouse commissioned Urbain Vitry to ensure remove all the convent's religious characteristics. The archaeologist Alexandre Du Mège occupied the cloister and rebuilt it to be able to house the medieval collections gathered from Toulouse's destroyed religious buildings such as the basilique Saint-Sernin. Today the cloister houses a reconstructed medieval garden. The building was classed as a Monument historique in 1840. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musée_des_Augustins
panorama from 7 fields of view, each at 3 bracketed exposures.
The Musée des Augustins de Toulouse is a fine arts museum in Toulouse, France which conserves a collection of sculpture and paintings from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. The paintings are from throughout France, the sculptures representing Occitan culture of the region with a particularly rich assemblage of Romanesque sculpture. The building in which the museum is sited was built in 1309 in the Gothic style and prior to the French Revolution housed Toulouse's Augustinian convent. The convent was secularized in 1793 and first opened to the public as a museum on 27 August 1795 by decree of the French Convention, very shortly after the opening of the Louvre, making it one of the oldest museums in France after the Louvre and the Musée des Beaux Arts in Besançon. It at first housed the Muséum Provisoire du Midi de la République and the école des Beaux-Arts. The Musée des Augustins de Toulouse was one of fifteen museums founded in provincial centres, by a decree of 13 Fructidor year IX (31 August 1801), which was promulgated by the minister of the interior, Jean-Antoine Chaptal (Arrêté Chaptal du 14 fructidor an IX). At the start of the 19th century several medieval buildings (notably the refectory) were demolished and in their place Viollet-le-Duc and his pupil Darcy put up new exhibition galleries, accessed by a Gothic Revival monumental stair offering an interplay of richly complicated vaulting systems. The works continued from 1873 to 1901, when the museum reopened. In effect, Toulouse commissioned Urbain Vitry to ensure remove all the convent's religious characteristics. The archaeologist Alexandre Du Mège occupied the cloister and rebuilt it to be able to house the medieval collections gathered from Toulouse's destroyed religious buildings such as the basilique Saint-Sernin. Today the cloister houses a reconstructed medieval garden. The building was classed as a Monument historique in 1840.
Encore une série de photos de la Galicière, ancienne usine de moulinage de la soie de la fin du 18ème siècle, située à Chatte, dans le département de l'Isère, près de St Marcellin, au pied du Vercors.
Son état de conservation (arrêt de la production en 1920, sans que les machines datant de la révolution française soient vidées des lieux) en font « une capsule de temps », unique en France, voire en Europe.
L'usine pouvait être visitée à l'occasion des journées du Patrimoine, et les récits de la vie de ce moulinage et de ses ouvrières étaient présentés par l'association en charge de ce patrimoine et par les nouveaux propriétaires des lieux (un couple d'architectes).
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La Galicière is a former silk mill factory from the end of the 18th century, located in Chatte, in the department of Isère, near St Marcellin. France
Its state of conservation (production stopped in 1920, without the machines dating from the French revolution being emptied from the premises) makes it “a time capsule”, unique in France, even in Europe.
The factory could be visited on the occasion of Heritage Days, and the story of the life of this mill and its female workers was presented by the association in charge of this heritage and by the new owners of the place (a couple of architects).
The Conciergerie is a former prison in Paris, France, located on the west of the Île de la Cité (literally "Island of the City") presently mostly used for law courts. It was part of the former royal palace, the Palais de la Cité, which consisted of the Conciergerie, Palais de Justice and the Sainte-Chapelle. Hundreds of prisoners during the French Revolution were taken from the Conciergerie to be executed on the guillotine at a number of locations around Paris. A splendid Gothic palace. The Salle des Gardes (Guards Room) and the immense Salle des Gens d'armes (Hall of the soldiers), built under King Philip the Fair, still remain from the days of the medieval palace, as do the kitchens built under King John the Good. From a Royal residence to a Palace of Justice. The Kings of France abandoned the palace at the end of the 14th century to settle in the Louvre and in Vincennes. It then took on a judicial role, and part of the palace was converted into prison cells. Revolutionary prison. The Conciergerie became one of the principal places of detention during the French Revolution, with the installation of the Revolutionary Court. Its most famous prisoner was Marie-Antoinette. During the Restoration, a commemorative chapel was erected on the site of her cell. www.paris-conciergerie.fr/en
La Galicière est une ancienne usine de moulinage de la soie de la fin du 18ème siècle, située à Chatte, dans le département de l'Isère, près de St Marcellin, au pied du Vercors.
Son état de conservation (arrêt de la production en 1920, sans que les machines datant de la révolution française soient vidées des lieux) en font « une capsule de temps », unique en France, voire en Europe.
L'usine pouvait être visitée à l'occasion des journées du Patrimoine, et les récits de la vie de ce moulinage et de ses ouvrières étaient présentés par l'association en charge de ce patrimoine et par les nouveaux propriétaires des lieux (un couple d'architectes).
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La Galicière is a former silk mill factory from the end of the 18th century, located in Chatte, in the department of Isère, near St Marcellin. France
Its state of conservation (production stopped in 1920, without the machines dating from the French revolution being emptied from the premises) makes it “a time capsule”, unique in France, even in Europe.
The factory could be visited on the occasion of Heritage Days, and the story of the life of this mill and its female workers was presented by the association in charge of this heritage and by the new owners of the place (a couple of architects).
When I was at La Conciergerie in Paris, I stopped in a little side-room to take a photo. This was probably six years ago, but I didn't process the photo until just recently. It was a single RAW photo and I wanted to test out the new Aurora HDR. The RAW by itself looked pretty dull, and I didn't know if it had much potential, but I think it turned out pretty well!
- Trey Ratcliff
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It has been a dream of mine to view Paris from the top of the Colonne de Juillet monument in Place de la Bastille. I've climbed onto the side of it during protests and looked down on the gilded Genius of Liberty from a nearby carnival ride, but when I heard the interior would be open for visitors after the reconstruction of the square, I was disappointed to realise they take you to the crypt. This view, from the bottom of the stairs looking towards the sky, is the closest you can get. On top, the railing is short, and due to suicides in the past, it is prohibited to reach the summit. The quest continues for another way to reach this sacred pinnacle in Paris.
"S’ils n’ont pas de pain qu'ils mangent de la brioche!"
picture taken at Time portal sim
As you step into the grand interior of the Colonne de Juillet in Bastille, a world of history unfolds before your eyes. The space is meticulously designed to immerse you in the captivating story of the 1830 July Revolution. With every step, you are surrounded by a symphony of visual marvels, from the towering presence of the gilded statue to the intricate sculptures that adorn the column's walls. This extraordinary monument stands as a resounding symbol of freedom, a testament to the bravery and spirit of those who fought for change. It is an exhilarating sight that leaves an indelible impression, reminding us of the power of revolution and the enduring pursuit of liberty.
The Conciergerie is a former prison in Paris, France, located on the west of the Île de la Cité (literally "Island of the City") presently mostly used for law courts. It was part of the former royal palace, the Palais de la Cité, which consisted of the Conciergerie, Palais de Justice and the Sainte-Chapelle. Hundreds of prisoners during the French Revolution were taken from the Conciergerie to be executed on the guillotine at a number of locations around Paris. A splendid Gothic palace. The Salle des Gardes (Guards Room) and the immense Salle des Gens d'armes (Hall of the soldiers), built under King Philip the Fair, still remain from the days of the medieval palace, as do the kitchens built under King John the Good. From a Royal residence to a Palace of Justice. The Kings of France abandoned the palace at the end of the 14th century to settle in the Louvre and in Vincennes. It then took on a judicial role, and part of the palace was converted into prison cells. Revolutionary prison. The Conciergerie became one of the principal places of detention during the French Revolution, with the installation of the Revolutionary Court. Its most famous prisoner was Marie-Antoinette. During the Restoration, a commemorative chapel was erected on the site of her cell. www.paris-conciergerie.fr/en
The Conciergerie, located on the west of the Île de la Cité (literally "Island of the City") in Paris, France, was formerly a prison but presently used mostly for law courts. It was part of the former royal palace, the Palais de la Cité, which consisted of the Conciergerie, Palais de Justice and the Sainte-Chapelle. Hundreds of prisoners during the French Revolution were taken from the Conciergerie to be executed by guillotine at a number of locations around Paris. Some of the more famous prisoners include prisoners include Marie Antoinette, poet André Chénier, Charlotte Corday, Madame Élisabeth, Madame du Barry and Robespierre.
The Devil is in the Details: Château Royal de Blois - Read the article written by my colleague William Lounsbury that spots this, and many other of my images, and see how details fill out the folio of any trip ---- www.aperturetours.com/blog/2020/the-devil-is-in-the-detai...