Still making some kind of pause... Here are two photos,, the first one from inside the (new) National Library...
... and a second one from inside the National Assembly.
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As already said in previous posts, I have a little problem with an eye and need an operation ... and some time to recover. In the meantime, to make it simple, I have pre-programmed some odd posts with photos, which I have not yet publsihed. Here are just two photos taken around Place de Stalingrad.
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(This is a
pre-programmed post – see explanation in previous post.)
As each
year, I try to give you a glance of what the department stores, Printemps
and Galéries Lafayette, Christmas show windows look like. So, it’s time again - as usual with a tight fight between the two neighbouring “rivals”. This year Printemps
has Dior and Galéries Lafayette Louis Vuitton as basic themes. Most of the
windows are for adults, but there are of course a few for the kids. What you
can’t see from my pictures is the fact that there are la ot of movements in many windows.
If you like my blog, I would appreciate if you click on the Expat Blog badge on the top of the sidebar, look for my blog on the list and then "vote"! ... and to finsih with the Christmas decorations, a few
photos also from the interior, including the usual gigantic Christmas tree
under the Galéries Lafayette cupola:
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Mozart
visited Paris, accompanied by his parents and sister, as a young boy and had great
success, performed for the Royal family… When he returned in 1778 for a couple
of months, he was 22 (21 on the portrait) and had less success, although he was
offered a job as organist at Versailles which he rejected. He didn’t get the
prestigious job he was looking for. He wrote to a friend : “Paris is totally
opposed to my genius, inclinations, knowledge and sympathies…. God grant only
that I may not impair my talents by staying here.” He made however some
concerts, worked as piano teacher… and composed.
He wrote a
number of sonatas, including this one. …
… and especially
a “Paris Symphony”. After a first more private performance, it was then, and at
least twice in his presence, played by a great orchestra in what then was used
as a big concert hall in the Tuileries Castle (destroyed in the Communard
movement 1871, see previous posts). However no royalties were present. After
the first Tuileries concert June 12, 1778, he was satisfied and went for an ice-cream
in a café in the Palais Royal Gardens (see previous posts), maybe this one?.
The symphony was then played a second time August
15 and in the meantime he had rewritten the second movement, which somehow had “failed
to please”.
Also, in
the meantime his 57 year old mother who had accompanied him to Paris got
seriously ill. They stayed in the building you can see at the top of the post,
8 rue du Sentier.
He went to
pray in the nearby Notre-Dames-des-Victoires Basilica (see previous post).
His mother
died July 3 and the funeral was held at the Saint-Estache Church (see previous
post).
Mozart left
Paris for the last time during the autumn. I have a little problem with an eye and will have an operation. I will probably need a few weeks before I'm again quite "fit for fight", meaning work properly with my computer etc... In the meantime, I have prepared, pre-programmed, some posts, but I will of course hardly be able to look at other blogs, comment... Sorry!
... and in the meantime you can also listen
to Mozart's “Paris Symphony”.
My previous blog, PHO, was in operation for a year, beginning in March 2007. It contains similar posts as this one, basically talking about different well known or more secrete sites in Paris. You can reach it by clicking HERE.
Si vous cherchez quelqu'un à Paris qui ouvre des portes, normalement fermées, et qui sait tout sur l’histoire de Paris, vous pouvez contacter Marc Soléranski, conférencier national, historien, tel. 01 42 78 14 96. marc.soleranski@wanadoo.fr
If you look for someone in Paris who can open doors which normally may be closed, who knows everything about the history of Paris, you can contact Marc Soléranski, lecturer and historian, phone +33 1 42 78 14 96. marc.soleranski@wanadoo.fr
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