I found a red man among the trees close to the Paris Observatory (see previous
post). Actually, he stands on a pedestal,
on which you, until 1942 and the Nazi occupation, could find the statue of François Arago (1786-1853), a man with a lot of activities, but his statue was obviously
placed here, close to the Observatory, due to his being – also - an astronomer,
known for his works on the (French) meridian. I talked about it and on him
several times, e.g. here.
I found out
that the red man, sniffing some kind of a flower, was placed here, very unofficially,
by an artist called James Colomina… and then I learnt that he had placed
another (little) red man on the Pont Mirabeau.
I have
already posted about this beautiful bridge, built during the last years of the
19th century (here and here), but I felt that the bridge was worth
some more photos. Those days, the decorations were important - there is even a
man with a (tagged) flame… reminding us that we can see another flame close
to the neighbouring bridge (see posts e.g. here and here).
On my way
to the second little red man, I felt that I had to take some photos of the
Seine banks under a particularly blue sky.
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