#paris history

[skirtmag]

Flower Vendor on the Grandes Boulevards

Paris 

Victor Gabriel Gilbert - Date unknown

#Victor Gabriel Gilbert #Flower Vendor #Paris #Grandes Boulevards #fine art #flower market #paris art #visual art #painting #french artist #parisienne #fluer #paris history

[nickysfacts]

You could say he was just dying to know the answer!😅

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#history #france #antoine lavoisier #guillotine #blink #french history #science #experiment #historical figures #french revolution #paris #chemistry #guillotined #science history #oxygen #fraud #execution #law of conservation of mass #science experiments #paris history #beheaded #age of revolution #did what he loved to the end #nickys facts

[empirearchives]

Head studies for ‘La Barrière de Clichy - Defense of Paris, 30 March 1814’

Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)

#Horace vernet #vernet #napoleonic wars #Paris #paris history #history #Parisian history #the defense of paris #napoleonic era #first french empire #19th century #art #french empire #napoleonic #napoleon #war of the 6th coalition #napoleon bonaparte #french #war of the sixth coalition #1800s #1814 #1810s #empire #french art

[charlesreeza]

Sacré-Cœur Basilica

This familiar Paris landmark was built in the late 19th century on the highest point in the city, the butte Montmartre.  It is a popular tourist destination because it provides a panoramic view of the city.  

The church has a controversial history.  Prior to its construction, the archbishop of Paris said it would be built to express national repentance for “a century of moral decline’ since the French Revolution, and to "expiate the crimes of the Commune.”  

The Paris Commune was a revolutionary government that started in Montmartre and seized control of the city for two months in 1871. They were in favor of self-rule, the separation of church and state, the remission of rent, the abolition of child labor, workers’ rights, and feminism. The French Army suppressed the Commune and killed between 10,000 and 15,000 Communards.

The Catholic Church supported a return to monarchy and the "Government of Moral Order" of the Third Republic that linked Catholic institutions with secular ones. The construction of Sacré-Cœur was a big F-you to everything the Commune believed in. It was seen as a symbol of counter-revolutionary repression.  

The project was so unpopular among leftist progressives in Montmartre that it supposedly drove away the group of artists that included Monet, Renoir, van Gogh, Matisse, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Picasso. The heart of intellectual and artistic life in Paris moved to Montparnasse.

#Paris landmarks #catholic church #travel photos #Paris history #architecture

[cynthiabertelsen]

A Different Slant: A German Officer in Occupied Paris

In today’s America, there’s a certain glorification of tyrants, certain ideologies. Most of the time, when reading of Germany’s Nazis and World War II, it’s easy to lump people together, to believe that everyone followed the party line. One exception to that, I recently discovered while doing research for my new writing project, was Ernst Jünger (1895-1998). Who was Ernst Jünger? An insightful…

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#A German Officer in Occupied Paris #Ernst Jünger #Paris history #WWII

[c-e-mcgill]

By the way, if any of you, like me, are nerds who love maps, I highly recommend checking out the Turgot map. I won't link it or tumblr will eat this post, but you can find it just by searching Wikipedia - it's an incredibly detailed 3D map of Paris made in the 1730s, and by "incredibly detailed," I mean

incredibly

incredibly

INCREDIBLY

DETAILED!

Look, there's Notre Dame! Individual trees! Individual lampposts! Individual boats!! (Some of them even have little people in lol, though clearly not to scale)

The full scan is over 35,000 pixels wide, guys! That's over 10 feet of map!! All drawn and engraved by hand! I'm freaking out a little! What an absolutely amazing piece of history & art!

#I'm slowly collecting stupidly detailed maps of Paris for book research but this is the wildest one I've found so far #and in 3D! It really gives you a sense of the city like nothing else #history #french history #Paris #maps

[die-rosastrasse]

Château de Versailles

Versailles, France, 27 VIII 2023

#architecture #art #photography #travel #classical art #france #art history #my photography #olga's diary #art detail #baroque architecture #baroque #baroque art #paris #Versailles #marie antoinette #places #french art #light academia #light academia aesthetic #romantic academia #royalcore #royal aesthetic #princesscore #academia aesthetic #palace #17th century #european architecture #european art #museums

[escapismsworld]

The Félix Potin building, Paris (1904)

#dark academia #light academia #classical #academia aesthetic #escapism #academia #books and libraries #classic literature #books #architecture #old #building #exterior #design #historical #history #art nouveau #paris #france #félix potin #royal core #cottage core #aesthetics #mood #vibe #beautiful #tumblr

[lionofchaeronea]

Rooftops in the Snow (Snow Effect), Gustave Caillebotte, 1878

#art #art history #Gustave Caillebotte #cityscape #Paris #France #rooftops #winter #winter scene #snow #Impressionism #Impressionist art #French Impressionism #French art #19th century art #oil on canvas #Musee d'Orsay

[undr]

Edouard Boubat. Cats on a roof in Paris. 1947

#edouard boubat #vintage #photography #black and white #street photography #art #history #vintage photography #black and white photography #1940s #paris

[etherealacademia]

sculptures at the louvre

#dark academia #light academia #studyblr #the secret history #paris aesthetic

[popculturebaby]

Jerry Hall at the Café de Flore in Paris, 1974 ✨

#jerry hall #paris #1974 #celebrities #iconic #pop culture #hollywood #fashion #movies #1970s #1970s aesthetic #1970s vintage #1970s history #1970s tv #1970s movies #1970s style #1970s fashion #70s aesthetic #70s #70s model #actress

[nickysfacts]

People really will do the dumbest things for love, also I feel so bad for those co pilots!😅

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#history #over the top #hot air balloon #duel #france #romantic history #paris #bachelor #love #historical events #french history #love triangle #blunderbuss #romantic #paris history #in the name of love #historical figures #funny history #ballet #1800s #seriously wtf #how is this real #nickys facts

[livesunique]

The courthouse building for the Tribunal de Commerce,

Paris, France,

Built between 1859 and 1865 on a design by architect Antoine-Nicolas Bailly, inspired by the Renaissance Palazzo della Loggia in Brescia. It was ceremoniously inaugurated by Napoleon III on 26 December 1865.

Credit: Bon Voyage Cleo

#art #design #architecture #history #style #interior design #grans staircase #courtgouse #paris #france #antoine-nicolas bailly #palazzo #palazzo della loggia #napoleon III #bonvoyagecleo

[depressed-linguist]

opéra garnier, paris

#dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #art #beauty #light academia #mine #my photos #paris france #phantom of the opera #opera #opera garnier #architecture #art history #sculpture #historic architecture

[leatherandmossprints]

‘Nightlife on the Rue Venis, Paris’ by Konstantin Korovin, c. 1932.

#konstantin korovin #vintage art #classic art #art #painting #oil painting #old art #art history #moody art #art details #cityscape #Paris