Category: France
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The encounter
The encounter Marie d’Orléans died shortly after the birth of her son in 1839. She was 26 years old. During her short life as Princess of Orleans and, after her marriage, as Duchess of Württemberg, she devoted herself to sculpture with considerable success. In the museum of the Monastère royal de Brou, I was struck…
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Dynamic white
Dynamic white Ryman examined meticulously what he could do with, mainly, white paint on differently coloured surfaces. He himself would not easily give a title like ‘Dynamic white’ to a painting of his. He was very much aware of the materials he used, the kind of paint, the surface, the visible mounting to the wall,…
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Love and devotion
Love and devotion Mother and child: the universal feeling of love.Praying nun: the religious feeling of devotion.The feelings may be close to each other but they are not the same. Photos of the week: statues of Mary in the chapel of Besanceuil, and of a devotional nun in Eglise Saint-Thomas, Cuiseaux, France 2025
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O Holy Night
O Holy Night Nativity scene in Chartres cathedral. Photo of the week: Christmas at Cathédrale Notre-Dame, Chartres, France 2024
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Bleu de Chartres
Bleu de Chartres When you enter Chartres Cathedral, the blue light in the stained-glass windows immediately catches your eye: the famous blue of Chartres. There are many different colours in the stained glass, red, yellow, green, white … but it is the intensity of the blue that dominates the image. The photo shows a detail…
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Curiosity
Curiosity Feeling small under their inquisitive looks. Photo of the week: Petit Veyriat, Foissiat, France 2025
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What’s in a name?
What’s in a name? The Rue Ecce Homo is closed to traffic. The Rue du Repos, on the other hand, is a dead end. Maybe it leads to the ‘repos éternel’ of the cemetery? Photos of the week: Rue Ecce Homo and Rue du Repos, Cuiseaux, France 2025
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Half-timbered
Half-timbered The beauty of asymmetry in the patterns of old half-timbered houses. Photo of the week: Half-timbered house (detail), Chamandre, Ain, France 2025
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La beauté a sa méthode
La beauté a sa méthode Each one in its own way: one of the oldest houses in Bourg-en-Bresse in the traditional style with stone, earth and wood construction elements, and the method of Jeanne Piaubert with its ‘unique treatment for divine skin and hair’. Photo of the week: La Demeure Hugon, Bourg-en-Bresse, France 2025
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A necklace for the Earth
A necklace for the Earth A distant field of flowering plants from the Brassica family lays as a thin gold necklace on the earth. Beautiful as ever. Photo of the week: Lescheroux, Ain, France 2025
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