a touch of red

 

known as the birthplace of the modern form of the can-can 

received on Postcrossing

salut

back to France

for the Paralympics

and, just in time, I received the latest Marianne (2023) 

This is Marianne of the future designed by Olivier Balez and engraved by Pierre Bara

eiffel tower

 Caturday

Are we ready to say au revoir to Paris and the Olympics?  Were any of you glued to the tv coverage for hours on end watching sports you had almost forgotten even existed?  I was.  And am ready to move on.  We had around a dozen sports channels on tv, plus the US channel (NBC) and the main Canadian channel (CBC) which had 22 hours of nonstop Olympics.  The only break was one hour of national news, one half hour of local news, and one half hour of ...  Coronation Street.  This is non-negotiable.  They took it off the air once, and only once. (I forget if it was for the hockey, or Olympics, but they had so, so many complaints)

Anyway, tomorrow will be our last Olympic themed Sunday Stamps before we return to regular programming.

triomphe

 L'arc de triomphe de l'Étoile

although this vintage card obviously doesn't show it, the symbol for the Paralympics is displayed on the monument.  For the first time, the host city didn't wait until the Olympics were over to install the Agitos.

souvenirs

 

grotesques

 fantastical chimères

of Notre-Dame

paris, texas

street wear for Thursday Postcard Huntfrom a 1977 photograph by Garry Winogrand, Texas

landmark

a ghostly Mona Lisa hovers over the I.M. Pei designed pyramid at the Louvre in Paris

public square

 

notre-dame

Paris, showing a relatively empty public square in front of Notre Dame Cathedral

 

montmartre

Sacré-Cœur Basilica

  

the second most popular tourist destination after the Eiffel tower

louvre

received from France

eiffel

Crowds on the way to the Eiffel Tower. Limited visits to the top have been available since July 15. Or you could schedule a visit to climb the stairs to the second floor (freeing up the lift for those with mobility issues). You will climb up one staircase and down the other. Masks must be worn. Has anyone been to the top?

sketches

Bastille Day

flying free

le pantheon

Originally built as a church, it is now a secular mausoleum — which meant that the great Gothic windows had to be blocked up. Some of the people buried here include Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Pierre and Marie Curie,

Paris... en flanant

unsent, real photo 1920s
Place de la Concorde
Les Éditions d'Art 'YVON', Paris 15, Rue Martel
I.B. 0571

'Yvon' was the pseudonym of the Parisien photographer Pierre Yves Petit who began publishing postcards of his photographs in 1919 under the Strolling around Paris series.

Postcard Friendship Friday