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Pictures of the Left bank, featuring pictures of l’Institut de France, l’Hôtel des Invalides, the Luxembourg Gardens, the Museum of the Middle Ages, and the Catacombs by David Henry. Regardez cette page en français…

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Clouds floating behind the Panthéon, seen from pont Louis-Philippe. Construction of the Pantheon was started in 1764 and was completed after architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot’s death in 1789.

The Pantheon seen from rue Jean du Bellay on île Saint-Louis

 The dome at the top of Saint-Louis des Invalides, the royal chapel in the Hôpital des Invalides complex.

The dome on top of the Hôtel des Invalides
The western façade of Hôtel des Invalides houses the Institution Nationale des Invalides, a national institution for disabled war veterans.

The dome of Saint-Louis des Invalides church seen from boulevard des Invalides

 “Peace Enthroned Before Paris” a painting in the central portion of the ceiling of the salle des Pas-Perdus in the palais Bourbon, by Horace Vernet.

Peace, a painting on the ceiling in the Assemblée Nationale
The Hémicycle, main meeting room for legislators at the Assemblée Nationale, was inaugurated November 17th, 1797. The chamber in its current state was finished in 1832.

The Hémicycle in the palais Bourbon

 The Musée du Quai Branly reflected in the glass windows of the building at 209 rue de l’Université.

Reflections of the Musée du Quai Branly
The ceramic decorations around the main entrance to 29 avenue Rapp, designed by Jules Joseph Aimé Lavirotte.

29 avenue Rapp, a showcase of art nouveau architecture

 The arched windows of the Adyar Theater’s façade, framed by the wrought-iron entrance gateway to Square Rapp.

The façade of the Théâtre Adyar, Square Rapp
Pont des Art is a pedestrian-only bridge that leads from the Louvre to the Left Bank

L’Institut de France

 The Museum of the Middle Ages at les Thermes de Cluny

The Museum of the Middle Ages at les Thermes de Cluny
Montparnasse Tower seen from the open-air market median strip in the middle of boulevard Vaugirard.

Tour Montparnasse seen from boulevard Vaugirard

 La Fontaine Médicis was commissioned in the 1630s by Marie de Médicis to remind her of the grotto in the Boboli Gardens she enjoyed in her childhood in Florence.

The Medicis Fountain in the Jardin du Luxembourg
A scale model in bronze of the Statue of Liberty hidden away on the west side of the Luxembourg Gardens.

A Statue of Liberty in the Jardin du Luxembourg

 The jardin du Luxembourg dates from 1612 when it was first laid out under the reign of Marie de Médicis.

Palm trees in the Jardin du Luxembourg
A bee covered with pollen on a red flower in the Luxembourg Gardens. Since the end of the 1850s the jardin du Luxembourg has a garden of bee-hives, where courses in apiculture are offered.

A bee on a flower in the jardin du Luxembourg

 Gargoyles on the southern façade of église Saint-Séverin, in the Saint-Michel neighborhood.

Gargoyles on the outside of Saint-Séverin church
The café/tabac “La Favorite” on a main thoroughfare at 3 boulevard Saint-Michel, is conveniently open until 2 in the morning.

La Favorite’s neon tabaconnist sign

 Two cups of coffee, two glasses of water and a pack of cigarettes on a table outside a café on boulevard Saint-Germain.

Cups of coffee at a sidewalk café on the Left Bank
The sky and clouds reflected in the panes of glass of a greenhouse in the jardin des plantes.

Reflections on greenhouse windows in the jardin des Plantes

 The Serre Australienne in the Jardin des Plantes, an early example of metal architecture in France, finished in 1836, features banana plants, ficus, cycas, pandanus, orchids, and ferns.

The Australian Greenhouse in the Jardin des Plantes
The Great Mosque of Paris, built in the Spanish-Mauresque style in 1926, is the largest in France, with its 110-foot-tall minaret.

The tower of the Grande Mosquée de Paris

 L’Institut du Monde Arabe seen from île Saint-Louis.

L’Institut du Monde Arabe, with pont de Sully in front
The Cœur Défense office tower complex seen from under a circular awning over the entrance to the Éléctricité de France skyscraper in La Défense business district outside of Paris.

The Cœur Défense office towers in Paris’ La Défense business district

 Your gaze returned from hundreds of years ago

Some skulls in the Catacombs

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