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| Near/In Jardin des Tuilleries
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| Looking at and past Place de la Concorde from the west end of Jardin des
Tuileries.
| A close-up of the Luxor obelisk. It appears every country that looted
Egypt has one.
| A high-resolution photo of the Eiffel Tower. The red and yellow
elevators are obvious. In the full-size image, you can see the
towers intricate web of girders.
| A panorama of the large pond at the west end of the Jardin des
Tuileries. Notice the many sculptures surrounding it.
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| A shaded path along the intensely bright, grand axial path.
| Napolean's statue and obelisk in Place Vendome.
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| Musee de l'Orangerie
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| A panoramic video of four of Monet's huge water lilies paintings.
| One segment of one painting. If you look closely, you can see where the
canvases were sewn together.
| Another segment.
| A panoramic image of one of Monet's brighter paintings of
water-lilies.
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| Another panoramic video of another room with similarly astoundingly
large Monets.
| A whole painting. I really like this one.
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Di Yin pointed out that in some pieces whole segments of the canvas--the
size of regular paintings--don't make sense (i.e., are just dark)
without the context of the rest of the painting.
| A model room with many tiny paintings on the wall. It doesn't quite fit
in my paintings-of-paintings ouvre but it's close enough.
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| This is actually a model of someone's (Paul Guillaume's) apartment.
Look at the list of famous artists he has hanging on his walls!
| A model of another room in his apartment.
| | A hallway with an incredible collection of Renoirs, Cezannes, and more.
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| Chaim Soutine's paintings look like a cross between cubism and
impressionism.
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| Lunch at Le Souffle
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| We ate lunch at Le Souffle.
| We sat in the back room. It's not as big as it appears--note the mirror
and yours truly.
| "Souffle au fromage (emmental et comte)" (cheese souffle). Light and
airy, like eating air.
| Action shot of it being devoured, also to show the inside.
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"Souffle Henri IV sauce volaille aux champignons." I think Henri IV
sauce is the same thing as Bearnaise sauce. Basically, this was a
souffle with mushrooms with an egg-and-butter-and-mushroom sauce (in a
saucer not shown). It smelled strongly of mushrooms. We liked the
occasional chunks of mushrooms in the souffle. Di Yin said, "there's
something surprising about the mushroom souffle; it might be sour
cream." Again light and airy, it was filling and the mushrooms got to
me. It was richer than the cheese souffle but not physically heavier.
My hand is in this picture to provide a sense of scale. The souffles
are large.
| "Souffle au chocolat noir et sa sauce chocolat noir" (dark chocolate
souffle with dark chocolate sauce (saucer not shown)). This was the best
souffle of the three. It's very chocolaty due to the chocolate sauce;
the souffle itself is subtle. Di Yin said there can never be enough
sauce and poured on every drop. She cleaned the bowl using her finger
and licking it.
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| Champs Elysees
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| The beginning of Champs-Elysees is surrounded by tree-lined formal
gardens.
| The Grand Palais.
| Later Champs-Elysees becomes a shopping boulevard with extremely wide
sidewalks.
| A fancy shopping mall off Champs-Elysees.
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| The Arc de Triomphe. Notice the size of the people at the top.
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