04 July 2009

Paris under snow


These photographs were taken in Paris on 2 February 2009. Heavy snow in Paris is unusual; looks great when it comes.


Rue du Faubourg St Honoré, top end, looking towards Avenue de Friedland.



Looking up Friedland towards Étoile.




Motorcycles in the Rue du Faubourg St Honoré, near the Elysée Palace.



Place de la Concorde, with l’Obélisque de Luxor.



L’Obélisque de Luxor, Place de la Concorde.


Clearing the snow, steps outside l’Orangerie.


View from l’Orangerie.


Museé de l’Orangerie, home of a magnificently installed collection of Monet’s Nymphéas (waterlilies), and of La Collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume.


L’Orangerie and the Voie Georges Pompidou.




Les Tuileries, looking from l'Orangerie towards the Jeu de Paume and the Rue de Rivoli.

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