TEC4597470: The Felix Potin building, 140 rue de Rennes and rue Blaise Desgoffe, Paris 6th arrondissement. Built in 1904, made of reinforced concrete by the architect Paul Auscher (1866-1932), this seven-storey building consists of supply shops and sales to the public (ground floor and floor), offices and housing on floors. The corner turret is crowned with an evide bell tower where you can read the name of Felix Potin. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4597475: The Felix Potin building, 140 rue de Rennes and rue Blaise Desgoffe, Paris 6th arrondissement. Built in 1904, made of reinforced concrete by the architect Paul Auscher (1866-1932), this seven-storey building consists of supply shops and sales to the public (ground floor and floor), offices and housing on floors. The corner turret is crowned with an evide bell tower where you can read the name of Felix Potin. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4595852: The door of Meknes on the Place de la Concorde, Paris 8th arrondissement. Plastic intervention by Catherine Feff, during “Le Temps du Maroc” during 1999, Moroccan and French artists reproduced in the spring, on Place de la Concorde, the door of Meknes, in full size, one of the jewels of Moroccan architecture: 3,000 square meters of canvas designed and made in France dress a scaffolding of 40 metres wide, 15 metres high and 25 metres deep. Photography 1999. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4595939: Le PeuPalais, avenue Winston Churchill, Paris 8th arrondissement. The building was built for the 1900 Universal Exhibition, by architect Charles Girault (1851-1932). It now houses the Musee des Beaux Arts of the City of Paris, which includes many works of Antiquite in the 19th century. Photography 25/08/05. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4595952: The fountains of the Rivers on the Place de la Concorde in Paris. Designed by Jacques Ange Gabriel (1698-1782) as a French garden, it is one of the most beautiful French squares. Inaugurated in 1763 as Place Louis XV, it became the place of the Revolution from 1792 to become the place of capital executions. Louis Philippe (1773-1850) gave it back its current name. In 1836 he called the architect Jakob Hittorff (1792-1867), to redesign the square with the eight statues of the big cities of France and the fountains surrounding the obelisque of Luksor, realisation 1835-1840. Phototorgpahie 10/09/04. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4597973: Cafe des Deux Magots (1875), 6 place Saint Germain des Pres, Paris 6th arrondissement. The cafe takes its name from the two stunned figures of the Extreme Orient: the two magots, which served as a sign for the Chinese silk and fabric trade. Since the last century, a large number of intellectuals have frequented Les Deux Magots, from Verlaine to Rimbaud, surrealists, Picasso, Giraudoux, not to mention Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir who came to write two hours a day for long years. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4598089: Pont des Arts, Paris 6th arrondissement. The Passerelle des Arts, the first iron bridge in Paris, had the mission of joining the Institut de France and the Louvre, which was then called the Palais des Arts. Reserved for pawns, it was built from 1801 to 1804. It initially consisted of nine arches. Following numerous river accidents, its reconstruction was decided in 1981 but two arches were removed to line them up on the Pont Neuf. Reconstruction in 1981 by Louis Arretche. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4598187: Boat near the Pont des Arts, Paris 6th arrondissement. The Passerelle des Arts, the first iron bridge in Paris, had the mission of joining the Institut de France and the Louvre, which was then called the Palais des Arts. Reserved for pawns, it was built from 1801 to 1804. It initially consisted of nine arches. Following numerous river accidents, its reconstruction was decided in 1981 but two arches were removed to line them up on the Pont Neuf. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4598248: The Palais des Etudes of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. Architects Felix Duban (1797-1872) and Francois Debret (1777-1850), reconstructions 1816. The building occupies what remains of the convent of the Petites Augustins (17th century) and the hotel de Chimay (1635), to which buildings were assistant in the 19th century. / Bridgeman Images