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Photographs of Hôtel de Ville and environs: the Georges-Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne, the Stravinsky pool, Saint-Gervais church, Fountain des Innocents, Forum des Halles, and Saint-Eustache, by David Henry. Regardez cette page en français…

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Paris’ City Hall under a blazing sunset

Hôtel de Ville under a golden sunset

 The clock façade on Paris’ city hall

Hôtel de Ville’s central clock façade
Mayor Bernard Delanoë’s apartment occupies an entire floor here

Two people walking across place de l’Hôtel de Ville

 Chinese New Year’s gives Paris’ city hall an eastern touch

Chinese Lanterns in front of Hôtel de Ville
Viewed across pont d’Arcole

Hôtel de Ville seen from île de la Cité

 A man sleeping on a pew along the southern side of église Saint-Gervais, a church just behind Hôtel de Ville.

A man sleeping inside Saint-Gervais church
The stained glass window in front of the memorial to the victims of the bombardement of église Saint-Gervais-Saint Protais, Holy Friday, March 29th 1918, killing 91 and wounding 68 others.

A chapel on the south side of Saint-Gervais church

 The plexiglass escalator tubes running up the six floors of the Centre Georges Pompidou’s western façade, seen from rue Rambuteau.

The escalator tubes along the Pompidou center’s façade
The walkways lead around the building from the bibliotheque nationale Georges-Pompidou, on the second floor

Up on the balconies at the centre Georges-Pompidou

 Also known as the Beaubourg

The centre Georges-Pompidou with the Musée National d’Art Moderne inside
One of Jean Tinguely’s fountain sculptures on a sunny January day, still running despite the sub-freezing temperatures.

A frozen sculpture in the Stravinsky pool next to the Pompidou Center

 Clouds hovering over the Centre IRCAM and other buildings on rue Aubry le Boucher.

Clouds floating over the IRCAM Center
An artist’s bag with his brushes and tubes of paint at the corner of rue Aubry le Boucher and rue Saint-Martin.

An artist’s brushes and bag in front of the Pompidou Center

 A statue of the virgin Mary in one of the chapels along the south east side of église Saint-Merry.

A statue of the virgin Mary in Saint-Merry Church
Two angels in a starburst above the high altar of Saint-Merry church, entitled «Gloire» created by the Slodtz brothers in 1758.

Angels in a starburst above église Saint-Merry’s altar

 An angel with a broken face twelve feet up from the floor, to the left of the main altar in l’église Saint-Merri.

An angel with a broken face in Saint-Merri Church
On display in the shop window are rats captured at les Halles around 1925.

The window of the «Destruction des Animaux Nuisibles» shop

 «La Victoire», the statue by Louis-Simon Boizot at the top of the fontaine des Palmiers, was commissioned by Napoléon Bonaparte in 1807.

La Victoire, the statue above the fontaine des Palmiers, place du Châtelet
The fountain in the middle of square des Innocents

Fountain des Innocents early in the morning

 The moss is very characteristic of hot summer weather.

Water cascading down Fontaine des Innocents in the summer
A four-hundred-year-old church hovers over a shopping mall

Saint-Eustache, with Forum des Halles in the foreground

 Haussmannian building façades reflected in the windows of Forum des Halles shopping center.

Reflections in Forum des Halles’ windows
A rainbow above the residences between rue Pierre Lescot and rue Saint-Denis, next to Forum des Halles.

A rainbow above rue Rambuteau
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