More Paris street
Assortment of street work, mostly from the Latin Quarter and St. Germain.
Shot with Nikon D4 and 50 f/1.4
Luxembourg Gardens
Always a delightful place to visit, especially on the weekends.
All shot with the Nikon D4 and 50 f/1.4
Picpus Cemetery
Picpus Cemetery is the largest private cemetery in Paris. It contains the remains of French aristocrats who had been guillotined during the French Revolution, as well as the Marquis de Lafayette.
The cemetery is only five minutes from Place de la Nation, where the guillotine was set up under the Terror in 1794, on the Place du Trone, then called the Place du Trône Renversé. Between June 13 and July 28 as many as 55 people a day were executed. A pit was dug at the end of the garden where the decapitated bodies were thrown in together, noblemen and nuns, grocers and soldiers, laborers and innkeepers. A second pit was dug when the first filled up. The names of those buried in the two common pits, over 1300 men and women, are inscribed on the walls of the chapel. Of the 1109 men, there were 108 nobles, 108 churchmen, 136 monastics (gens de robe) 178 military, and 579 commoners. 197 women were buried there, 51 from the nobility, 23 nuns and 123 commoners. The bloodshed stopped when Robespierre himself was beheaded, and the garden was closed off. (Wikipedia)
Photographed with the Nikon D4
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