Paris: Clocks. (And Snoods.)
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The Musée d'Orsay, which contains the world's largest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, is in what used to be the Gare d'Orsay -- a Beaux-Arts train station built at the turn of the 20th century. A number of the windows, like this one in the café, are clocks (to show the time to the outside world). |
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Here's another one in an anteroom adjacent to one of the galleries. |
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It's kinda amazing to see a view of Paris through an enormous clock. |
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One more clock in the Musée d'Orsay. |
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Here's a clock on Boulevard du Palais on the Île de la Cité. Paris is divided in two by the Seine, and the Île de la Cité is a little island in the middle of the river. It's where Notre Dame is, and also the Prefecture de Police, the Palais de Justice (which includes the Sainte Chapelle), a hospital, and the Tribunal de Commerce. And the flower markets, and this clock. |
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This clock is on the face of the Church of Saint Paul-Saint Louis on Rue Saint-Antoine in the Marais district. |
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These next few were at the flea markets de la porte de Clignancourt. |
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Institut de France. Location of the Bibliothèque Mazarine. |
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One of two clocks on Saint-Ambroise, Boulevard Voltaire... |
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where both clocks are showing the wrong time -- and the towers are wearing snoods! |
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Parisian towers are so snoody. |