This is the Place de la Concorde in central Paris. Why not the Place de la Bastille today? Because we didn't go there and I don't have any pictures of it.
Besides, the Bastille was stormed and then destroyed by mobs of woke Frenchmen anyway, so why bother? As the favored place for guillotining kings and queens¹ I think Concorde is a pretty good substitute. Plus it was only a few minutes from our apartment.
¹In particular, King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette.
Vive la France!
Did you put the gold tip on the obelisk?
A humble request, a few years ago you did a couple of physics posts, I remember one was on Gravity. Is there any chance you could include their links in your Longform section? Mojo has gotten more difficult to hunt up your old posts and thought you did a brilliant job of offering up explanations.
"Besides, the Bastille was stormed and then destroyed by mobs of woke Frenchmen anyway, so why bother?"
Wokeness has deep roots and aspires to liberty, equality and fraternity. Good to be reminded.
Their wokeness was more bloodthirsty than ours, killing not only a king & queen less cruel than many, but turning on fellow revolutionaries - and the key to the Bastille wound up at Mt. Vernon.
A Mystery Challenge!
From where, or how did Kevin take this picture?
Enter suggestions, guesses, answers below.
I think I know, but of course I could be wrong...still, I'd be curious what other people might think...
Best Wishes, Traveller
Probably from La Madeleine -- with a telephoto lens.
If I remember right the Paris Museum is near the Place de la Bastille. Interesting museum, I was struck by the revolutionary Georges Danton, who stepped up to the guillotine with the words “my turn now”. He had previously been heard to say that his only regret was that he was to die six weeks before Robespierre.
Dear a55b47, I think not on La Madeleine...I am going to guess the top of Arc de Triomphe....I think this is the only possible place...but only Kevin can solve our confusion.
Traveller
Madeleine it is , otherwise the Assemblée Nationale wouldn't be in the picture.
The Champs Elysées are on the left side of the Concorde.
Yep, from the steps of Madeleine. That's what gives the view a little bit of height.
It is a good thing that I don't mind being solidly proven wrong...but mystery is always enticing...my memory of that section of Paris is obviously flawed.
Ha, this may force me to go back to Paris in the next year....so there is some good flowing from my erroneous thinking.....(grin)
Best Wishes, Traveller