Henri Cartier-Bresson… at Centre Pompidou…
Henri Cartier-Bresson…
French… photographer…
Father… of photojournalism…
Exhibiting… at the…
Centre… Pompidou…
Was… inspirational…
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Arts
Salon du Livre… de Paris…
Salon…. du Livre…
de… Paris…
A deluge… of books…
Writers… authors…
Editors… publishers…
“Scénaristes”…
Talented professionals… congregate from all over the world to pay hommage to…
“The… book”…
We were at the “vernissage”… private view… of the Salon du Livre 2014… at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre… where we proudly mingled with representatives of their “métier”…
“Les hommes… de lettres”…
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Chinese New Year 2014… in Paris…
“Le… Dragon”…
Loomed… large…
Formidable…
Its… huge head…
Its body… rippling…
Undulating… gliding…
Effortlessly… confidently…
Through the streets of Chinatown… in Paris…
We were… ecstatic…
The… Dragon…
Has always been… a powerful symbol of China…
In fact… we were celebrating the…
Chinese New Year 2014…
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Prix des Deux Magots 2014…
Prix des Deux Magots… 2014…
It was… a moment…
Of… nostalgia…
Emotions… of expectation…
Where… one would…
Visualise… Sartre…
Sitting… in the corner…
Deep in a… philosophical “débat”…
With… de Beauvoir…
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Cartier… at the Grand Palais…
“Cartier… Le… Style…et… l’Histoire…
L’exposition… organisée par… La Réunion des Musées Nationaux… Le Grand Palais… dans le Salon d’Honneur”…
We were among the many admirers… invited to gape in amazement at the 600 creations… by the jeweller of Monarchs… Maharajahs… Princesses… notably Grace of Monaco… Hollywood royalty… Marlene Dietrich… Elizabeth Taylor… beautiful heiresses… Barbara Hutton… Marjorie Merriweather Post… historical figures… The Duchess of Windsor… Daisy Fellowes…
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Les Soeurs de Napoleon… at the Musée Marmottan Monet…
The… exhibition…
“Les Soeurs de NAPOLEON”…
“Trois destins italiens”…
At… the…
Musée Marmottan Monet…
Was a… vision of beauty…
Elegance… charm…
Power…
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Chantecler Tango… at Théâtre du Châtelet…
As… the curtain…
Of… the splendid…
Châtelet…
Théâtre Musical de Paris…
Slowly… lifted…
We… the enthralled…
Parisian… audience…
Were transported… to the mythical cabaret…
Chantecler…
In… Buenos Aires…
Mora… Godoy…
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ALAÏA… at the Palais Galliera…
A L A Ï A…
Exhibition…
His first… Paris retrospective…
Presented…
At the… magnificent…
Recently renovated… galleries…
Of… the…
Newly reopened…
Palais… Galliera…
Le Musée de la Mode… de la Ville de Paris…
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Georges Braque.. Intellectual Artist…
“If… you…
Georges… Braque…
Were asked… to sum up…
The essence of Cubism… in just a few words…
What… would you say…?”
“On a surface that is drawn, constructed and painted, it gives a multiple vision of the world, offering all the facets of things simultaneously, drawing the eye back to the surface of the canvas, back from the horizon into which it had wandered, adrift in a space dictated by convention.”
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Marie Duplessis.. Mon Dieu.. Quelle Femme…
How… could…
A… semi-illiterate waif…
From… Nonant-le-Pin…
Normandy… France…
Emerge… as the toast…
Of 19th century… Paris…
Who… inspired…
Operas… plays…
Novels… films… ballets…
Marie… Duplessis…
Inspired Alexandre Dumas to write the 1848 novel “La Dame aux Camélias”…
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