A Light in the Attic
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France legalizes gay marriage despite angry protests
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France became the 14th country in the world to allow same-sex couples to wed Tuesday, when its parliament approved a law that has sparked often violent street protests and a rise in homophobic attacks.
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Indian Sikh school students participate in a protest against the ban on wearing turban in public schools in France, in New Delhi, India.
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France needs to stfu UP and leave people the fucking HELL alone!!!
France doesn’t get it, now they want to forbid veil at work and not just public sectors.
Nope. This is just how France does their racism while pretending they’re not really racist.
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Someday I’ll visit them. Via cmfcknw: The Catacombs of Paris
Paris has a deeper and stranger connection to its underground than almost any city, and that underground is one of the richest. The arteries and intestines of Paris, the hundreds of miles of tunnels that make up some of the oldest and densest subway and sewer networks in the world, are just the start of it. Under Paris there are spaces of all kinds: canals and reservoirs, crypts and bank vaults, wine cellars transformed into nightclubs and galleries. Most surprising of all are the carrières—the old stone quarries that fan out in a deep and intricate web under many neighborhoods, mostly in the southern part of the metropolis.
These sections of caverns and tunnels have been transformed into underground ossuaries, holding the remains of about 6 million people. Opened in the late 18th century, the underground cemetery became a tourist attraction on a small scale from the early 19th century, and has been open to the public on a regular basis from 1874.
The official name for these subterranean veins is l’Ossuaire Municipal. Although the cemetery portion covers only a small section of underground tunnels comprising “les carrières de Paris”, Parisians today often refer to the entire tunnel network as “The Catacombs.”
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analysis-of-modern-art: Georges Seurat, Seated Model, 1887.
‘Pointillism: each one of these dots of color is intended to function like a pixel on a TV or computer screen. It is meant to combine with other dots of color to create full shades of color.
‘There’s a strong sense of texture on the surface that Seurat loved. His control over color is evident in the combinations of hues used in the painting. When you look up closely to the painting, you realize you’re looking at something like Monet – the lyricism and the way the colors play across your eyes. The only way he could’ve made this painting is through intuition, not analysis alone’
Les Iles d’Or, Henri Edmond Cross
1891-1892
From Paris entre chats
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Cemetery in France, 1961
Boulevard Montmartre at Night, Camille Pissarro, 1897
Maybe it’s just me.
I just love the color palette in this movie.
