Here are three photos of mine, taken at la place Dauphine over the years, plus one that Walt took and posted on his blog years ago. At the end of the post I'm adding a short slideshow of photos I've grabbed off Google Maps and Google Images to supplement ours.
That's Walt sitting on a park bench in my photo below, and then after that his photo
of a group of people playing boules, a French version of lawn bowling.
The aerial view is a Google Maps screen capture. The last photo in the slideshow is a Google Maps photo of the house at number 14, place Dauphine, which the Michelin green guide says is an example of what the original buildings around the place looked like.
I like the brick and stone facade combination in #14 in the slide show. Wondering why "place Dauphine" is written that way in stead of Place Dauphine? Maybe I'm thinking too "English." That said it looks like it would be an ideal place to live in the city.
ReplyDeleteIn French, words like place, rue, avenue, are boulevard considered to be common nouns, so they are not capitalized. The proper noun is the name of the street or avenue: l'avenue des Champs-Élysées, or la place de la Bastille. At least I think that's right. In English, when we're dealing with French name like the Place Dauphine, we tend to use more uppercase characters. The same holds true for la tour Eiffel. For me, it's all pretty confusing because the two languages interfere with each other in what remains of my brain.
DeleteThanks for this Ken!! Good to know.
DeleteWonderful!
ReplyDeleteI think it's hilarious to realize that I may have never been to this spot in Paris.
It's a 12-minute walk from the corner of the rue du Four and the rue des Ciseaux, formerly the location of the Pension Saint-Germain, up to the place Dauphine, via the rue Dauphine.
DeleteGreat memories, thanks!
ReplyDeleteThis is a very good and informative skideshow.
ReplyDeleteI think the Place Dauphine originally looked loke a triangular Place des Vosges. The Henri IV style is the same, as seen as the two houses facing the Pont Neuf. The building at the bottom of the triangle is the Palais de Justice.
Thanks for this interesting slide show, Ken. CHM thanks for your insights always.
DeleteA the bottom of the triangle, there was a third row of houses, about where the row of trees is today. Those houses were torn down to make space for a grand staircase leading up the Palais de Justice, as we see it today.
DeleteThank you, Ken, for the information about the Palais de Justice. I didn't know that.
DeleteSelon le guide Michelin, dans son article sur la place Dauphine : Seuls quelques immeubles, comme le nº 14, offrent encore leur aspect d'origine. De plus, le côte Est de la place a été rasé en 1874, victime de l'escalier voulu par Duc.
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