November 21, 2007
Bar pour chien
There are only two of these in Paris -- this one is on rue Blanche in the 9th.
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October 23, 2007
Le Vélib dernière génération
The latest Vélib model.
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July 18, 2007
Vélibs! Yay!
(Vélib is the new bike rental service that just started on Sunday.)
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July 3, 2007
Théophraste
One to consider when you're naming your next child.
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April 25, 2007
Essuyez-vous les pieds avant d'entrer
(Wipe your feet before you enter.)
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November 4, 2006
Vintage Machine in the Window of a Barber Shop
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September 21, 2006
Clotilde de Vaux (1)
Auguste Comte's muse and life companion.
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Clotilde de Vaux (2)
Auguste Comte's muse and life companion.
Posted by clotilde at 10:01 AM | Comments (3)
July 28, 2006
Le Petit Chaperon Rouge vit à Montmartre
(Little Red Riding Hood lives in Montmartre.)
Posted by clotilde at 10:22 AM | Comments (2)
April 12, 2006
Help yourself
As seen on rue de Belzunce in the 10th. We got suspicious, thinking it might be some kind of a sect thing, and didn't in fact take any of the flowers. But I took a pic!
Posted by clotilde at 1:42 AM | Comments (0)
February 27, 2006
Abandoned bright yellow mini dishwasher
Posted by clotilde at 12:53 PM | Comments (1)
February 17, 2006
Street art
(Somewhere in Montmartre.)
Posted by clotilde at 1:14 AM | Comments (0)
January 2, 2006
Papier Mâché
L'Atelier Végétal, rue des Abbesses.
Posted by clotilde at 10:01 AM | Comments (1)
December 28, 2005
Defenseless penguins
"Penguins are defenseless. Please don't hurt or take them away." In front of a Christmas decoration in Courbevoie (no penguins to be seen).
Posted by clotilde at 10:20 AM | Comments (0)
November 14, 2005
Orwell moins le quart
(It is a quarter to Orwell.)
Posted by clotilde at 11:17 AM | Comments (0)
October 13, 2005
Sidewalk Stencil
We're seeing more and more of these on the sidewalks of Paris. This one says, "I will tell her that I'm suffering from her (or his) absence".
Posted by clotilde at 12:53 AM | Comments (4)
October 3, 2005
On récupère volontiers (2)
(La Miroiterie, rue de Ménilmontant.)
Posted by clotilde at 4:40 PM | Comments (0)
September 21, 2005
Choco-Job
(A chocolate store in the 4th looking for help over the holiday season.)
Posted by clotilde at 3:21 PM | Comments (7)
September 20, 2005
Space Invader Sighting
(At the corner between rue Ramey and rue du Chevalier de la Barre in the 18th.)
Posted by clotilde at 8:49 AM | Comments (0)
September 19, 2005
Uh-oh
Lice alert posted on the door of a school...
Posted by clotilde at 5:06 PM | Comments (1)
September 14, 2005
Respect (Ahem)
"Caution, plants are growing here! Respect them!"
Posted by clotilde at 9:39 AM | Comments (0)
July 29, 2005
Hold on to your wallet
"Gousset" is an old-fashioned word for a small pocket that men wore at their belt, and a "vide-gousset" is a pick-pocket, someone who literally empties the gousset.
Posted by clotilde at 12:14 PM | Comments (0)
July 26, 2005
Pont des Champions
Crossing the Chajoux in La Bresse (Vosges).
Posted by clotilde at 12:33 PM | Comments (1)
Colmar, Home of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
Architect of the Statue of Liberty.
Posted by clotilde at 6:42 PM | Comments (0)
July 23, 2005
Dog-friendly zone
Fresh water for your dog (as seen in Colmar, Alsace).
Posted by clotilde at 9:44 PM | Comments (1)
July 20, 2005
The most relaxed cobbler in the whole world...
...lives rue d'Orsel, smokes cigars, listens to rap music and takes two months of summer vacation.
Posted by clotilde at 4:34 PM | Comments (0)
July 12, 2005
A bit of stenciled wisdom...
"People in a hurry are dead already".
(Passage Boiton in the 13th.)
Posted by clotilde at 7:58 PM | Comments (0)
July 7, 2005
Melon à l'Italienne
Wow, this better be some darn good melon and ham...
Posted by clotilde at 9:46 AM | Comments (0)
June 15, 2005
Le chat dans la vitrine
(The cat is very pretty, but please do not tap the window!)
Posted by clotilde at 11:45 PM | Comments (2)
May 19, 2005
Fontaine Wallace
(Rue de l'Espérance in the 13th)
Posted by clotilde at 5:13 PM | Comments (0)
Abandoned Strawberry, Part I
(Outside a bank, rue des Martyrs)
Posted by clotilde at 2:11 PM | Comments (0)
May 10, 2005
Welcome message
On the door of a restaurant rue de la Butte-aux-Cailles.
(For the non-French speakers, this translates loosely as "Please turn off your f*ing cell phone!")
Posted by clotilde at 5:29 PM | Comments (2)
April 28, 2005
Marché Alésia : fleurs
(Rue de la Glacière.)
Posted by clotilde at 2:20 PM | Comments (0)
April 21, 2005
Rue des Thermopyles
Quiet little street In the 14th.
Thermopyles? Définition sur Wikipedia (in French).
Posted by clotilde at 12:42 PM | Comments (1)
April 6, 2005
Not sure what kind of tree this is...
...but it sure looks pretty!
Posted by clotilde at 8:16 PM | Comments (6)
April 4, 2005
La Petite Ceinture
Abandoned railroad tracks that used to run around Paris, now replaced by the PC bus line (hence its name). Pictured here between rue Liard and rue de l'Amiral Mouchez in the 13th.
Posted by clotilde at 4:00 PM | Comments (2)
March 25, 2005
Les Petites-filles de la Charcutière
On the chalkboard, it says: "Cervelles, Foie de Veau, Onglet".
Posted by clotilde at 10:41 AM | Comments (1)
And we would not want *her* to get jealous, now would we?
La Dame de Fer, as seen from Javel.
Posted by clotilde at 10:16 AM | Comments (1)
March 20, 2005
The Most Beautiful Thing Ever Built By Mankind
Posted by clotilde at 8:53 PM | Comments (10)
March 9, 2005
Oh no, not another one!
Just outside la Gare St-Lazare...
Posted by clotilde at 11:13 PM | Comments (0)
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