Paris Off the Beaten Path Tips by Lady_Mystique

"Je t'aime"

While you are roaming the area of Montmartre, or coming down the hill from visiting the 'Sacre Coeur', then be sure to look for this special wall covered with

"I LOVE YOU" in languages from all over the world.

Is this not one of MILLES reasons why Paris is such a romantic city???

I THINK SO!!! :o)

xxx ooo xxx ooo xxx ooo xxx ooo xxx

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Literary Paris: Galignani ~ Art Lovers Bookstore

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The Sign

A 200-year-old 'landmark' !
Once a publisher of the first English-language newspaper in Paris as well as a book publisher, and a reading room until the end of the 19th century, and still in the hands of the Galignani family.

This bookshop has been at the same address since 1845.
It is now specialized in—and celebrated for—international ART books; you can find all the best books about the arts and fashion, but you may also find artists and fashion designers browsing too.

224, rue de Rivoli, Paris 1st

Phone: 33(0)1 42 60 76 07

Metro: Tuileries

Open 10:00 to 19:00
Closed: Sundays

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Website: email: galignani@wanadoo.fr

Off The Beaten Path: Van Gogh's Paris: Moves into Montmartre

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Self Portrait as an Artist ~ van

Gogh

In early 1886, Vincent moved in with his brother Theo in Montmartre.

Theo, who manages the Montmartre branch of Goupil's (now called Boussod, Valadon & Cie), acquaints Vincent with the works of Claude Monet and other Impressionists.
Now Vincent sees for himself how the Impressionists handle light and color, and treat the town and country themes.
He begins to meet the city's modern artists, including Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Camille Pissarro.

Vincent's Paris work is an effort to assimilate the influences around him; his palette becomes brighter, his brushwork more broken.
Like the Impressionists, Vincent takes his subjects from the city's cafés and boulevards, and the open countryside along the Seine River.

Unable to afford models to perfect his skills, Vincent turns to his own image: "I deliberately bought a good mirror so that if I lacked a model I could work from my own likeness." He paints at least 20 self-portraits in Paris.
His experiments in style and color can be read in these self-portraits. The earliest are executed in the grays and browns of his Brabant period; these dark colors soon give way to yellows, reds, greens, and blues, and his brushwork takes on the disconnected stroke of the Impressionists.
To his sister he writes: "My intention is to show that a variety of very different portraits can be made of the same person."
One of the last portraits Vincent paints in Paris, Self-Portrait as an Artist, is a dramatic illustration of his personal and artistic identity.

Vincent regularly paints outdoors in Asničres, a village near Paris where the Impressionists often set up their easels. Later, he writes to his sister Wil: "And when I painted the landscape in Asničres this summer, I saw more colors there than ever before."

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Off The Beaten Path: Theo & Vincent Van Gogh's Apartment

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Plaque stating Theo & Vincent lived

here 1886 -188

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For exactly 2 years, from February 1886 to 1888, Vincent lived with his brother Theo in a 3rd floor apartment on the rue Lepin in Montmartre.
Having fallen under the city's spell, Vincent quickly learned the ways of Paris and opened his heart to all the new impressions that it offered him.

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Off The Beaten Path: Van Gogh's "Le Moulin de la Galette"

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Le Moulin de la Galette

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Along a stretch of the Rue Lepic are the remains of two of more than 30 windmills that once dotted the Montmartre skyline.
This picture shows the rebuilt Moulin de la Galette, originally dating from 1622.
It is said that Debray, one its mill-owners, was crucified on the windmill's sails during the 1814 Seige of Paris.
By 1900, the mill had become a famous dance-hall and provided inspiration for many notable artists such as Renoir and, of course, Van Gogh.

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Off The Beaten Path: One CHEAP way to SEE PARIS

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on Apr 23, 2006

Bus No. 69...a "Deal on Wheels"