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Cimetière Père Lachaise
Balloonist and aeronautics engineer Joseph-Eustache Croce-Spinelli was born on this day in 1843 in Dordogne, France. Croce-Spinelli was deeply interested in manned flight and had not only made several balloon expeditions but had published articles on propeller design when on April 15, 1875, with Gaston Tissandier and an assistant named Henri-Theodore Sivel, he flew to 29,000 feet over India in the helium-balloon Zenith -- short of the altitude record set by James Glaisher and Henry Coxwell. Although the men had been advised by Paris physiologist Paul Bert about the supplemental oxygen required at such altitude, in the excitement they failed to heed the advice, and Croce-Spinelli and Sivel asphyxiated in the inhospitably thin air. Tissandier miraculously survived to tell the tale.
Croce-Spinelli's claim to fame, however, stems not so much from his contributions to aeronautics but from the design of his much-visited tomb at Pere Lachaise in Paris: the monument displays lifesized effigies of Croce-Spinelli and Sivel lying side-by-side, holding hands, bare-chested and otherwise covered in a shroud. The sculpture is obviously a tribute to their comradeship, but some have asserted, without further evidence, that Croce-Spinelli and Sivel were gay lovers. Heroic death in the company of one's peers was a heady theme for the post-Romantic French. Who's to say?
(from Ron Schuler's parlour tricks - blog - july 12 2006)
Tomb in Les Baux.
Canon 550D + Tokina 12-24mm f/5.7
HDR generated from 3 RAW, handheld capture. Adjustments in levels, curves, noise reduction and sharpening in PSP CS3.
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Les ablutions permettent aussi de se concentrer pour le reste de la journée, Venarasi (Bénares), inde.
Si quelqu'un pouvait me dire de quelle variété d'insecte il s'agit. Ca ressemble à une abeille mais en plus petit. Réponse: Une syrphe (Merci Algoma)
Trappes (France) - 18/07/10
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Reposo / Repose
Santa Maria de Palau de Rialb, Catalonia.
"Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.
In memoria aeterna erit justus: ab auditione mala non timebit"
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