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"Les Deux Magots (French pronunciation: [le dø maɡo]) is a famous café and restaurant situated at 6, Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris's 6th arrondissement, France. It once had a reputation as the rendezvous of the literary and intellectual elite of the city. It is now a popular tourist destination. Its historical reputation is derived from the patronage of Surrealist artists, intellectuals to the likes of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as young writers, such as Ernest Hemingway. Other patrons included Albert Camus, Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, Bertolt Brecht, Julia Child and the American writers James Baldwin, Chester Himes and Richard Wright.
The Deux Magots literary prize (Prix des Deux Magots) has been awarded to a French novel every year since 1933 at Les Deux Magots.
The 6th arrondissement of Paris (VIe arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, it is referred to as le sixième.
The arrondissement, called Luxembourg in a reference to the seat of the Senate and its garden, is situated on the Rive Gauche of the River Seine. It includes educational institutions such as the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and the Institut de France, as well as Parisian monuments such as the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, the Pont des Arts, which links the 1st and 6th arrondissements over the Seine, Saint-Germain Abbey and Saint-Sulpice Church.
This central arrondissement, which includes the historic districts of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (surrounding the abbey founded in the 6th century) and Luxembourg (surrounding the Palace and its Gardens), has played a major role throughout Parisian history and is well known for its café culture and the revolutionary intellectualism (existentialism, authors such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir) and literature (writers Paul Éluard, Boris Vian, Albert Camus and Françoise Sagan) it has hosted.
With its cityscape, intellectual tradition, history, architecture and central location, the arrondissement has long been home to French intelligentsia. It is a major locale for art galleries and fashion stores, as well as Paris's most expensive area. The arrondissement is one of France's richest districts in terms of average income; it is part of Paris Ouest alongside the 7th, 8th and 16th arrondissements, as well as the Neuilly-sur-Seine inner suburb. The 6th arrondissement is the smallest in Paris in terms of area covered.
Paris (French pronunciation: [paʁi]) is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,150,271 residents as of 2020, in an area of 105 square kilometres (41 square miles). Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, science and arts. The City of Paris is the centre and seat of government of the Île-de-France, or Paris Region, which has an estimated official 2020 population of 12,278,210, or about 18 percent of the population of France. The Paris Region had a GDP of €709 billion ($808 billion) in 2017. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide Cost of Living Survey in 2018, Paris was the second most expensive city in the world, after Singapore, and ahead of Zürich, Hong Kong, Oslo and Geneva. Another source ranked Paris as most expensive, on a par with Singapore and Hong Kong, in 2018.
The city is a major railway, highway and air-transport hub served by two international airports: Paris–Charles de Gaulle (the second busiest airport in Europe) and Paris–Orly. Opened in 1900, the city's subway system, the Paris Métro, serves 5.23 million passengers daily; it is the second busiest metro system in Europe after the Moscow Metro. Gare du Nord is the 24th busiest railway station in the world, but the first located outside Japan, with 262 million passengers in 2015 Paris is especially known for its museums and architectural landmarks: the Louvre was the most visited art museum in the world in 2019, with 9.6 million visitors. The Musée d'Orsay, Musée Marmottan Monet, and Musée de l'Orangerie are noted for their collections of French Impressionist art, the Pompidou Centre Musée National d'Art Moderne has the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe, and the Musée Rodin and Musée Picasso exhibit the works of two noted Parisians. The historical district along the Seine in the city centre is classified as a UNESCO Heritage Site, and popular landmarks in the city centre included the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, on the Île de la Cité, now closed for renovation after the 15 April 2019 fire. Other popular tourist sites include the Gothic royal chapel of Sainte-Chapelle, also on the Île de la Cité; the Eiffel Tower, constructed for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889; the Grand Palais and Petit Palais, built for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900; the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Élysées, and the Basilica of Sacré-Coeur on the hill of Montmartre.
Paris received 38 million visitors in 2019, measured by hotel stays, with the largest numbers of foreign visitors coming from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and China. It was ranked as the second most visited travel destination in the world in 2019, after Bangkok and just ahead of London. The football club Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union club Stade Français are based in Paris. The 80,000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located just north of Paris in the neighbouring commune of Saint-Denis. Paris hosts the annual French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros. The city hosted the Olympic Games in 1900, 1924 and will host the 2024 Summer Olympics. The 1938 and 1998 FIFA World Cups, the 2007 Rugby World Cup, as well as the 1960, 1984 and 2016 UEFA European Championships were also held in the city. Every July, the Tour de France bicycle race finishes on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
Pergaminu - Graxa, piche, verniz e lápis dermatográfico sobre páginas de livro de anatomia do sec.XIX. ... Ao fundo xilogravura sobre tecido de algodão.
More historical alliteration than any modern existentialism.
Have we lost you there?
2 colours
A3 size screen print
with logo back print on nape
on ROYAL Gildan Soft Style shirt
Until there is life in my body, The answer is always YES. Until there is fire in the belly, Then every challenge is easy! जब तक शरीर में जान है, तब तक बस हाँ ही हाँ है. जब तक जिस्म में है आग, फिर हर चुनौती आसान है! For more, follow The Existentialist on Facebook. ift.tt/2qDMoiC Tags: #existential, #life, #existentialist, #existentialism, #lifequotes, #lifelessons, #justdoit, #walkon, #keepmovingforward, #yolo, #carpediem, #hindi, #hindiquotes, #mumbai, #motivation, #inspiration, #inspiring, #inspiringquotes, #quote, #quotes, #wisdom, #qotd, #quoteoftheday, #passion, #keepwalking, #motivationalquotes, #originalquote, #poetrycommunity, #poetsofinstagram, #instaquote.. Check out this post on Instagram! ift.tt/2rRPVaD.
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Les Deux Magots
Camus, Sartre and Hemingway used to frequent this cafe! Now it's a little hard to imagine an artist feeling comfortable enough to create in such a calculated atmosphere... nevertheless, I went in honour of Camus, my favourite writer.
St.Germain-des-Pres, Paris
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4th of April until 27nd of June 2009 at BuroDijkstra ArtGallery.
Installation Persuasion - Idea, attitude, or action By Edwin Stolk
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Cafe De Flore is where Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir would meet and discuss their philosophy of existentialism over a drink.
Le Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France
I headed south to le Cimetière Montparnasse. After the Paris churchyards closed in the 18th century, a full three quarters of a century before the English closed their urban churchyards, four great cemeteries were laid out to the north, east, south and west of the city. Pere Lachaise is the most famous, Montmartre the most aesthetically pleasing, but Montparnasse probably the most interesting. I spent about three hours and three hundred photographs pottering about. Some of the famous graves are easy to find because they are well documented, and visitors have placed tributes on them. For example, the first grave I went in search of, Samuel Beckett's, has metro tickets placed on it by visitors as a mark of having waited for something.
I already knew where Beckett's grave was, but two others in the same section were more difficult, as I did not have exact locations. I eventually found the grave of Phillipe Noiret, an actor I very much admired particularly for his role in my favourite film, Cinema Paradiso, but also for his role in Le Cop, which has criminally never had a DVD release with English subtitles. There were no public tributes on it, merely a plaque from his wife saying 'pour mon Cher Philippe' and a picture of a horse. While I was photographing it, four gendarmes, two men and two women, passed behind me and came across to see why I was photographing it. "Noiret!" exclaimed one of the men, and then "mais pourquoi le cheval?" wondered one of the women. But they didn't stop for me to explain, for I had read an article about Noiret about fifteen years previously in a copy of La Nouvelle Observateur while staying in a hotel in Boulogne, and I knew that he had bred horses in his spare time.
The other grave I had hoped to find in this section was that of Susan Sontag, but I couldn't track it down.
The joint headstone of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir is easily found by the main entrance, and I thought it rather sweet that they were remembered together. Despite all their efforts for existentialism and feminism, it was like a headstone in a quiet English churchyard which might have 'reunited' or 'together in eternity' inscribed on it. I think he wasn't pleasant company, and while she was certainly more intelligent than he was she made intellectual arrogance respectable. I photographed their headstone more out of interest than admiration.
Admiration was at the heart of my search for a gravestone lost in sections 6 and 7 which I think is not found often. It is for the surrealist photographer Man Ray. I was delighted to find it after barely 20 minutes searching. He designed it himself, and in his own handwriting into the cement it says 'unconcerned, but not indifferent', which could be taken as rebuff to Satre and his circle I suppose. Charmingly, beside it like the other half of a book is a photograph of him with his wife and the inscription 'Juliet Man Ray 1911-1991, together again'. Enough to leave De Beauvoir spluttering into her Pernod.
You can read my account of my travels at pariswander.blogspot.co.uk.
movie still from
"pierrot le fou" (1965)
starring:
Jean-Paul Belmondo
&
Anne Karina
directed by:
Jean-Luc Godard
Collage que hice en el curso de Orientación para la Formación Artistica (OFA) dictado en Instituto Universitario de Estudios Superiores Armando Reveron ( IUESAPAR ) Venezuela.
Collage I made in the course of Artistic Training Guidance (OFA) delivered at Graduate Institute of Armando Reveron (IUESAPAR) Venezuela.
Filmmaker Roger Nygard (Trekkies) takes on The Nature of Existence, roaming the globe to interview spiritual leaders, scientists, and artists who have influenced, inspired, or freaked out humanity.
There are a lot of permanently closed windows in abandoned properties in Athens' city center .
Most of them from the neoclassical era
I thought to add life to them reinstituting their relation to the urban environment
Kierkegaard once said "Show me the money! Show me the money!" And then he did a little dance. I think what he meant was this: Existence has no meaning except what we imbue it with. Chain link fences are the same way. So are cheese doodles. Cell phones and currency. Bow ties and measuring tape. This lack of intrinsic value is best illustrated by a crumb cake made with cinnamon and carob. Wait. That wasn't Kierkegaard at all. I'm thinking of Sartre. And now I'm thinking of crumb cake.
'A house and a human body in which God is remembered constantly remains under the merciful sight of God.' - His Divine Eminence RA Gohar Shahi
Philosopher, poet, musician, teacher and board game player Phil Newton finding the answer to the Universe outside Poco Coffee Prescot
It must have been about the time I was turning 16. We were assigned it in sophomore French Class, because the book was written in such simple language (and probably because the assignment of sucha-highfalutin author would seem impressive to our parents, who were not only paying tuition but also sending us down to an historic but then ghetto-ish neighborhood every morning to attend the school).
Our French teacher, a very nice older French Canadian guy (there were many Canadians, both English & French, in Cleveland in those years), appeared to have no clue what the book was actually about. (He explained to us that Meursault's habit of eating his eggs right from the frying pan was the evidence of his "existentialism".) Well, even at 16, with absolutely no prior exposure to any history of philosophy, I knew that somehow this just didn't sound quite right....
Nevertheless, I felt a very strong identification with Meursault, understanding all too well his moral preference for refusing the ridiculous and self-negating task of explaining himself to people who could only misinterpret him.
It wasn't until I was in my late thirties that I even learned about "The Stranger" being the first part of a trilogy, an extremely significant intentional aspect of the story. Had I also been exposed to the other two books in the trilogy, in which Camus deals with the resulting dilemma, I just might have figured out some stuff that, um, I'm now probably still working on at the age of 58.
As it happened, I basked in the understanding and approval regarding my own response to my life situation that Camus seemed to be offering to me, and I have always been grateful for the strength that this gave me at a critical time in my life.
[from the set: "books that changed my life"]
Great questions.....made me think.
1. ~~~~~~~~ Existentialism ~~~~~~~~, 2. Untitled, 3. Tractor in the Fields of the Palouse, 4. Depression, 5. Birdsong, 6. Jaz, 7. Super-size me love, 8. The Bookshelf, 9. Untitled, 10. magically miraculous, 11. Bliss, 12. November
1. What is your favorite word? Existentialism
2. What is your least favorite word? Intolerence
3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? Almost everything
4. What turns you off creatively, spiritually or emotionally? Depression ( I suffered from depression and it kills every good thing inside you)
5. What sound or noise do you love? Bird Song
6. What sound or noise do you hate? Alarm clock
7. What is your favorite curse word? Fanny (because in Australia it has a different meaning to America and it makes for some very rude sentances)
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? Author
9. What profession would you not like to do? Nurse (Nurses are hardworking saints who should be paid ten times what they are)
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? Heaven is on Earth
11. What is your favorite emotion? Happiness
12. What is your zodiac sign? Scorpio
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From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex comes a radical argument for ethical responsibility and freedom. In this classic introduction to existentialist thought, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity simultaneously pays homage to and grapples with her French contemporaries, philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, by arguing that the freedoms in existentialism carry with […]
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Inspired by: Zombies of the Haitian Voodoo variety represent a loss of cognition/consciousness and also a loss of free will. What is it except these things, after all, that separates us from animals.
By "controlling" another person and eliminating that persons ability to make choices, let alone engage in conscious thought, the "controller" has reduced that person to the level of an animal and has robbed him of his humanity.