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Rue Hautefeuille, 6th arrondissement 1898 © Musée Carnavalet, Paris/Roger-Viollet/TopFoto

В январе 1914 года возвратилась в Лувр Мона Лиза, похищенная в августе 1911-го и неизвестно где и с кем болтавшаяся все это время. Темная история. Настоящая ли Лиза висит в Париже?

Fashion 2013. Paris
london december 13 1172

Victoria and Albert Museum

For decades the image of the slender and chic Parisian woman has been setting the standard as the epitome of style and making some other women in France feel uncomfortably inadequate.

Most of the pressure French women feel to be thin comes from other French women and a society that has zero-tolerance for fat.

"Fat" is a dirty word, an offensive insult. It is difficult to come right out and say it. Thankfully, there is an array of flattering euphemisms to choose from.

"Fat women are seen as stupid. Their lives must be out-of-control, they are judged ugly, weird losers."

"Coco Chanel freed us from the corset more than 80 years ago - but we have fallen for a mental one instead - a silhouette of supposed perfection that is unattainable and leads to eating disorders and misery."

The tyranny of the silhouette, we call it - but it is also a kind of dream because it represents total success.

French police are investigating a possible scam involving thousands of fake tickets for Paris's Louvre museum.

The museum was alerted after it found fake tickets were used on several occasions by Chinese tourists and guides during August, a source told Agence France Presse.

The same source said Belgian customs had, around the same time, found 3,600 fake tickets for the Louvre hidden in a package sent from China.

The first counterfeit tickets to be found on 12 August were quickly found to be forgeries.

"The ticket's texture was strange to touch and the general quality of the paper used wasn't good. The ink appeared to have run," a museum source told the Parisien newspaper.

But then some seized two days later were found to be of "very good quality, perfect clones of our tickets".

Of all the scandals of the history of art, none is so scandalous as the one that took place on the evening of 29 May 1913 in Paris at the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring.

The Rite descended into a riot, the story goes. Magnified in the retelling, it has acquired the unquestionable certainty that only legend can have. Everyone simply "knows" that there was a riot.

The Rite and the riot become entangled in memory making this event, as he puts it, "some kind of gate to modernism, to the 20th Century".
"They had got themselves all ready. They didn't even let the music be played for the overture. As soon as it was known that the conductor was there, the uproar began,"

«Для того, чтобы быть счастливым, нужно иметь хороший желудок…»
Дени Дидро

Опять весна – опять хочу в Париж.

Just before closing time the previous day, a 28-year-old woman scrawled the 30cm (12in) graffito on the bottom of the painting and was immediately detained by a museum guard, France's 20 Minutes news website reported.

A 200-year-old law forbidding women to wear trousers in Paris has finally been revoked.
On January 31, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, France's minister of women's rights, made it officially impossible to arrest a woman for wearing trousers in the French capital

Но чем внимательней, твердыня Notre Dame,
Я изучал твои чудовищные ребра,—
Тем чаще думал я: из тяжести недоброй
И я когда-нибудь прекрасное создам...
(О. Мандельштам)

Стихийный лабиринт, непостижимый лес,
Души готической рассудочная пропасть,
Египетская мощь и христианства робость,
С тростинкой рядом — дуб, и всюду царь — отвес.
(О. Мандельштам)

...

Но выдает себя снаружи тайный план,
Здесь позаботилась подпружных арок сила,
Чтоб масса грузная стены не сокрушила,
И свода дерзкого бездействует таран.
(О. Мандельштам)

Где римский судия судил чужой народ –
Стоит базилика, и – радостный и первый –
Как некогда Адам, распластывая нервы,
Играет мышцами крестовый легкий свод...
(О. Мандельштам)

Все, что в Париже вкус голодный, полезный промысел избрав, изобретает для забав, для роскоши, для неги модной…

…I sat down facing the church and stared at the clock tower; it’s not such a wonderful piece of architecture, but that blue in the dial face always fascinated me. It was bluer than ever today. I couldn’t take my eyes off it.

Henry Miller. Tropic of Cancer.

The Rue Lafayette! It sounded like an important street to me back there in New York. I thought only millionaires and pearl merchants inhabited the street. It sounds wonderful, the Rue Lafayette, when you're on the other side of the water…

One can't imagine what dumps there are on these swell streets.

Henry Miller. Tropic of cancer.

что с нами делает жизнь

...и, любопытства ради, проснуться лет чрез сто

Если веку не до предков - не до правнуков мне: стад.

Entries tagged with paris

Rue Hautefeuille

возвращение

now and then

zero-tolerance for fat

о любви к искусству

The Riot of Spring

хочу в париж

опять хочу в париж

с днем кота

не уберегли

а могли бы и арестовать

Notre Dame

Notre Dame

Notre Dame

Notre Dame

вкус голодный

blue face

The Rue Lafayette

rue

жизнь велосипедов

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