et après ça, la ville

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Everywhere except Paris, that is. The French version of “Real Housewives” is the only foreign spinoff that is not set in its own country — apparently, it is impossible to find Parisian women vulgar enough to fit the format. Frédéric Pedraza, an executive at NT1, the channel that broadcasts the French adaptation, put it this way: “We have rich, glamorous women, of course, but they would never expose themselves in that manner.

‘Real Housewives’ in Greece, Israel and Canada - NYTimes.com (via michelledean)

I would watch the shit out of “Les ménagères vraies d’Auteuil” though.

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archimaps:

The Madeleine seen from the barricaded Rue Royale during the Commune de Paris in 1871, Paris

archimaps:

The Madeleine seen from the barricaded Rue Royale during the Commune de Paris in 1871, Paris

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Paris is savage. Wonderfully beautiful but savage in an unexpected quarter ; in its calculating heart. The secret of the whole affair — it’s revealed in Balzac, but no one seems to read him seriously — is a certain grotesque arithmetic. The wit of the city is a branch of addition and subtraction. Every American boy brought up in a good bourgeois atmosphere breathes the air of home in Paris. And in addition, it is Paris. Saul Bellow, to David Bazelon
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archimaps:

Inside the monumental gate of the World’s Fair in 1900, Paris

archimaps:

Inside the monumental gate of the World’s Fair in 1900, Paris

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Harry Beck’s Paris Métro diagram, 1951

Harry Beck’s Paris Métro diagram, 1951

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Institut Finlandais, Rue des Écoles, Paris, Juhani Pallasmaa avec Roland Schweitzer

Institut Finlandais, Rue des Écoles, Paris, Juhani Pallasmaa avec Roland Schweitzer

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blaaargh:

Robert Doisneau, Cocktail molotov, rue du Petit Pont, 1944

blaaargh:

Robert DoisneauCocktail molotov, rue du Petit Pont, 1944

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transitmaps:


Unofficial Interactive Map: Annual Passenger Entries into the Paris Metro (2011)
(Source: Data Publica via @grescoe)


Pauvre Église d’Auteuil !

transitmaps:

Unofficial Interactive Map: Annual Passenger Entries into the Paris Metro (2011)

(Source: Data Publica via @grescoe)

Pauvre Église d’Auteuil !

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