Few things have inspired me like Charles Marville’s photographs of Paris. And so when I woke up this morning, after a surprise daylong layover in the city, and saw this balloon floating beyond the Ecole Militaire, I thought of Marville’s amazing archive of a city in flux.
Looking west on a cold, wet morning.
Out my hotel window on a June day, in the 5th arrondissement.
Rooftops near the entrance to the island.
From Notre Dame, looking east to Isle St. Louis.
Looking east across the city from outside the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière.