Renaissance la Defense

... on se rappelle encore et on se dirige au tél''phone et finalement Pierre a dit: "Ok, je vous vois!" On est allé au restaurant "La Renaissance" parce qu'il y avait de beaux sièges bien moëlleux pour mes fesses. J'ai pris une "club" au foie gras. Pas ...

... this with a foul taste in my mouth. So we left as a group at 9:00 am & headed for our first stop of the morning - La Defense...which lies at the end of one of Paris' main boulevards - The Champs-Elysees (I have included a map of Paris in my picture ...

... it was fat, but because she was the mastermind behind the reign.  Yes, that's right Isabel.  Thank you to that team of Italian renaissance artists who decided to put in this little tid-bit.  Gina Walker would have ate this up!!!  (Gina is my women's ...

... era at the bottom levels and modern art at the highest. My favorite era was the fifth floor which featured medieval and renaissance art. One painting in particular stood out among the rest, although it was not the star of the exhibit (that title belongs ...

... . Seeing the Champs Elysees at night with its streams of traffic and turning the other way and seeing aglow the Grand Arche of La Defense in the distance, but all without the noise at street level made it feel like looking at a post card, a great ...

... stopped at a café for a vino and met Simon, a very nice actor who chatted me up. Finally, seriously pooped I headed back to La Defense  Sept. 14 The next day I had a coffee date with another new friend, Alex Dutil and his friend Pascal…. They ...

... , chaussures fermées, chemise, veste fermée (!!), gants (!!!) et foulard (!!!!!) vert. Je crois que je vais fonder une Association pour la Defense des Hôtesses dans les Pays Chauds. Non mais, c'est de la maltraitance! A leur place je serais déjà ...

...  from the west, "the way to enter Paris" according to Monique, we saw modern architecture in the slightly removed area called La Defense.  The Grande Arche is a large square structure, wide enough for a plane to fly through.  This area is ...

... a work of art unto itself? Will they get lost? I fly through the Davids and the Géricaults to find the Italian Renaissance art. It's slightly less crowded, and just as pleasant. I like to try to decipher all the religious and mythological symbolism ...

... . He said no, and sent me away. Free bracelet! After that we went way out of the center of Paris to an area called La Defense. Its an area with modern buildings and towers.  Not so exciting. We spent a couple hours exploring that area and then went back ...

... fragile agreements with their larger and stronger neighbors. Therefore, while other European sovereigns were building luxurious, modern Renaissance and Baroque palaces, politics and common sense demanded that the palace of the Monaco rulers be fortified; ...

... key role in the history of northern Europe in the 16th-18th centuries. Work began on the construction of this outstanding Renaissance castle in 1574, and its defences were reinforced according to the canons of the period's military architecture in the ...

... and column decor were pieced in with everything else on the exterior. We have heard it said here that the definition of Renaissance is "To recycle". Gabe's thoughts- I really enjoyed seeing Giambologna's alter, and Galileo's chandelier. It was hard to ...

... the church.  During this time only the priest spoke to God and man was truly kept in the dark.   The Renaissance would change that. Bagno Vignoni It seems the hot-springs of Bagno Vignoni were well known during the Etruscan epoch but it ...

... and illustrations just providing cover fire for the fact that his theory (which is that the Chinese kicked off the Italian Renaissance -- long story) is pure conjecture based on circumstantial evidence.  There's no hard proof of his central findings, ...