These two fountains, les fontaines de Pol Bury, were installed in the Cour d'Orléans of the Palais Royal in the center of Paris back in 1985. They didn't exist when I lived in Paris a few years earlier. The first time I was back in Paris was 1988, and there they were. The building itself was also renovated and its façade cleaned since then.
Pol Bury was a Belgian artist. He died in 2005.
Back then I was just getting started with SLR photography and was into taking color slides. This image is scanned from the original slide and fixed up a little with the software I currently use to process digital photos. I was sure that I had posted it on the blog before, but I can't find it, so here it is.
I'm long overdue for a trip to Paris... and I'm obviously going to be longer overdue.
ReplyDeleteI need to visit that courtyard one day.
ReplyDeleteI don't recall seeing it here before -- I don't think I've seen this in person, either.
ReplyDeletemitch, I was last there for a weekend in 2018. I'm not really ready to go back yet. Too many people in close quarters.
ReplyDeleteevelyn, I hope you can! Maybe the covid thing will be less of a threat next year.
judy, the Palais Royal's courtyards and garden are worth a stroll. And it's free.
Dear me
ReplyDeleteas a microbiologist this looks like a bad case of Staph. aureus.
On my last trip to France/England and Belgium, I had originally planned to spend the last few days in Paris (I've been there a few other times), but when it came down to the decision time; I said no, I could forego Paris that time. Now, in hindsight, I think if I could have seen the future I would have chosen differently. I hadn't planned on waiting this long to return. (That was in 2007.)
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