We wandered around Place du Tertre, where it was early still, before the hordes of tourists and artists.
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| A portrait artist near Place du Tertre (KSS) |
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| Place du Tertre (KSS) |
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| Place du Tertre: Restaurant À la Mère Catherine (1793), where Russian Cossacks in 1814 would bang the table and shout "bystro!" (Russian for quickly), and thus is the legend for why small French restaurants are called bistros (KSS) |
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| Place du Tertre: Starbucks (KSS) |
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| Place du Tertre: Artists |
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| Place du Tertre: Delivery truck crowding the artists (KSS) |
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| #1 Place du Calvaire doors, site of the former workshop of Maurice Neumont (KSS) |
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| L'Espace Dalí (KSS) |
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| Graffiti-ed niche (KSS) |
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| Café La Bonne Franquette (15C), often visited by Diaz, Pisarro, Sisley, Degas, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir, Monet, Zolam and van Gogh (KSS) |
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| Entrance to the garden behind the Café La Bonne Franquette, called La Guinguette, which was a subject of Vincent van Gogh (KSS) |
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| A Galerie d'Art for sure! (KSS) |
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| #12 Rue Cortot, former residence of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and later of Maurice Utrillo and his mother Suzanne Valadon; now the Musée Montmartre (KSS) |
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| #6 Rue Cortot, was the residence of Erik Satie who composed for piano the Trois Gymnopédies (1888, a gymnopédie was an ancient Greek dance performed by nude men) and who had an affair with Utrillo's mother just a couple doors away (KSS) |
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| Houses on Rue Cortot (KSS) |
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| Clos Montmartre vineyard, the last vineyard in Paris (KSS) |
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| View of the Café au Lapin Agile (terra cotta color), another hot-spot for the likes of Picasso, Renoir, Utrillo, Modigliani, Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Verlaine, and Aristide Bruant (KSS) |
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| Au Lapin Agile painting by humorist André Gill, which was a pun on his name (KSS) |
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| La Maison Rose, a subject for Utrillo (KSS) |
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| #49 Rue Gabrielle, a former workshop of Picasso (KSS) |
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| Interesting house at #19 Rue Ravignan (KSS) |
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| #13 Place Emile Goudeau, aka Le Bateau-Lavoir/the Boat Laundry, which was a former piano factory converted to cheap housing where up to 10 artists lived and worked, including Picasso (KSS) |
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| Model on the left, photographer on the right (KSS) |
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| Engagement photos (?) in front of 19C artist studios (KSS) |
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| Moulin/Windmill Radette (1717) was moved over the Restaurant Le Moulin de la Galette (KSS) |
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| Looking down Rue Tholozé (KSS) |
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| Artist studios on Rue de l'Armée d'Orient (KSS) |
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| #5 Rue Tourlaque, former residence and studio of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, who due to a syndrome easily fractured his legs and they stopped growing (KSS) |
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| #54 Rue Lepic was the home of Theo van Gogh, where Vincent van Gogh lived with his brother in 1886-1888, on the top floor with a view of the city (KSS) |
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| Charming Restaurant le Basilic (KSS) |
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| From the bottom of Rue Tholozé, you can see Moulin Blute-Fin (1622), which was the scene of Renoir's Bal du Moulin de la Galette, and it has been renamed the Moulin de la Galette (KSS) |
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| Cobbler's display (KSS) |
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| Église St-Jean l'Evangéliste/Church of St John the Evangelist (1894-1904) by Anatole de Baudot in Art Nouveau style (KSS) |
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| Métro station Abbesses entrance with a glass édicule/canopy designed by Hector Guimard in Art Nouveau style, which was moved here from the station Hôtel de Ville in 1974; one of only two originals left in Paris (KSS) |
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| Another view of the Métro station Abbesses entrance |
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| Le mur des je t'aime/I Love You: the Wall (2000), initiated by Frédéric Baron who collected the written phrase in over 300 languages, which were copied by calligrapher Claire Kito; the red bits are pieces of a heart (KSS) |
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| Fromagerie/Cheese shop (KSS) |
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| Poissonnerie/Fish shop (KSS) |
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| Café des deux Moulins, known as a film location for the 2001 French film Amélie (KSS) |
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| Inside the Café des deux Moulins |
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| Poster for the Amélie film; every face on a poster or wall advertisement had French flags painted on the cheeks, just like most French fans at the European Soccer Championship games |
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| At the Café des deux Moulins, we enjoyed crêpes; Nutella for Kent and chestnut for me |
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| Now we are at the foot of Montmartre: Le Moulin Rouge nightclub (1889) was popular for its amateur night when working girls danced the Quadrille/CanCan, a dance that originated in Montparnasse in the polka gardens of Rue de la Grande-Chaumière (KSS) |
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| All-in has a different meaning here, on Boulevard de Clichy (KSS) |
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| #73 Rue Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, perhaps the location of the first Chez Bricktop, owned by Ada "Bricktop" Smith, a dancer and singer (KSS) |
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| Place Pigalle, where African American jazz musicians, singers, dancers, poets, and WWII vets came if they did not want to return to the segregated USA |
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| Movie poster in the Métro station Barbès–Rochechouart (KSS) |
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| Paris Métro train |
We headed to the check-in desk at the far end of the airport, and a soldier blocked the crowd, telling us to move back. We thought we could go outside to go around the barricade to our check-in, but that was blocked off as well. Apparently there was an unattended bag, and we were moved once again even farther back. After about 20 minutes, we were allowed to go check-in. The longest line was at passport control, making the security line short.
We had salads for dinner before boarding the 16:15 flight to Atlanta. This flight took nine-and-a-half hours, arriving at 19:45. A really long line at passport control, where families used a computer terminal to scan passports. You get a receipt to show at a desk for customs.
We had a couple hours before the 22:35 flight to Cleveland.
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Arrived in Cleveland about 00:30, and Brynne picked us up for the ride home.
La fin.
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