TEC4595816: 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
TEC4595849: 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
TEC4595242: Fouquet's avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris 8th round. It was Jean Baptiste (Jean-Baptiste) Colbert (1619-1683) who had Andre Le Notre (1613-1700) opened in 1667 an avenue starting from the Tuileries to reach a hill, today called L'Etoile. There's nothing left from that time. Only nineteenth century witnesses remain on the Champs Elysees. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4597996: 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
TEC4598202: 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
FLO4598789: Black-eyed suzanne - Black-eyed susan vine, Thunbergia alata. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4595214: Scarlet flesh rock melon, Cucumis melo cantalupensis, cut in half to show flesh and seeds. Handcoloured stipple engraving of an illustration by George Brookshaw from his own “” Pomona Britannica,”” London, Longman, Hurst, etc., 1817. The quarto edition of the original folio edition published from 1804-1812. Brookshaw (1751-1823) was a successful cabinet maker who disappeared in the 1790s before returning as a flower painter with the anonymous “” New Treatise on Flower Painting,””” 1797. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4598031: Hawfinch, Coccothraustes coccothraustes, red crossbill, Loxia curvirostra, and house sparrow, Passe domesticus, on a flowerpot. Handcoloured engraving on steel by Fournier after a drawing by Edouard Travies from Richard's “New Edition of the Complete Works of Buffon,”” Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1837. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4598355: Mai's thrush (Convallaria majalis). Medicinal plant, description of the plant with stem, leaves and flowersand a plant with mature fruit and roots. Details of corolla, ovary and two seeds. Eau forte en couleurs 18th century, in Herbier de la France (1780-1793), drawing, engraving and printing by Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard (1742-1793), French botanist. / Bridgeman Images