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Pictures of l’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 statue in front of l’Hôtel de Ville de Paris, named «La Science» by sculptor Jules Blanchard.

A bronze sculpture in front of Paris’ city hall
“L’Art”, a bronze statue by Laurent Marqueste, in front of Hôtel-de-Ville de Paris, created around 1882.

“L’Art”, a statue-allegory in front of Paris City Hall

 The bronze statue of Étienne Marcel by sculptor Antonin Idrac next to l’Hôtel de Ville de Paris. Marcel was provost of the merchants of Paris in the reign of King Jean le Bon, from 1354 to 1358.

The equestrian statue of Étienne Marcel next to Paris’ city hall
The stained glass window in front of the memorial to the victims of the bombardment 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

 A sculpture of an angel seen to the right when entering Église Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais from rue des Barres.

An angel in Saint-Gervais church
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

 A view down rue de Rivoli from the corner of rue de Bourg Tibourg, with the Saint-Jacques Tower at dusk.

Tour Saint-Jacques at sunset
Tour Saint-Jacques, located on rue de Rivoli, was purchased by the City of Paris in 1836 and declared a Historic Monument in 1862.

The western façade of Tour Saint-Jacques

 The plexiglas 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 bibliothèque 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 southeast 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
A candle chandelier filled with strands of cobwebs in the first chapel on the north side of église Saint-Merri.

A dusty chandelier in Saint-Merry 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

 One of the four sphinxs at the base of the fontaine des Palmiers, designed by Gabriel Davioud and sculpted by Henri-Alfred Jacquemart.

A sphinx spitting water in place du Châtelet
The fontaine des Palmiers in Place du Châtelet, seen from the corner of rue des Halles and rue de Rivoli.

Clouds floating behind place du Châtelet

 The fountain in the middle of square des Innocents.

Fontaine des Innocents early in the morning
The moss is very characteristic of hot summer weather.

Water cascading down Fontaine des Innocents in the summer

 Fontaine des Innocents was built from 1546 to 1549 by Jean Goujon, on designs of Pierre Lescot.

Water gushing from the upper saucer of Fontaine des Innocents
Fontaine des Innocents was placed on a pedestal with six basins on each side in 1858 when a square was created to replace the marché des Innocents.

Water cascading down fontaine des Innocents’ basins

 Sunlight reflected upwards from the central basin inside the Fontaine des Innocents.

Reflections inside the Fontaine des Innocents
The Art Nouveau entrance to the Châtelet Métro station, designed by architect Hector Guimard.

The glass skylight roof over the Métropolitain entrance on rue des Halles

 Cherry tomatoes on sale on the sidewalk outside Vilmorin, a gardening shop tracing its origins back to 1743.

Tomatoes on quai de la Mégisserie
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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