Archive for Le Louvre
rewriting history
Posted in Books, Mountains, pictures, Travel with tags Bhutan, Buddhism, Chinese history, Communist Party of China, democratic elections, elections, Gengis Khan, gun violence, Le Louvre, Le Monde, monks, Musée d'histoire de Nantes, Musée du Quai Branly, Musée Guimet, museum, Nantes, Nepal, Oscars (Academy Awards), Paris, People's Republic of China, PRC, propaganda, Telluride Film Festival, The Monk and the Gun, Tibet, Toronto International Film Festival on September 24, 2024 by xi'an
Le Louvre snapshot
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags arcade, lamp, Le Louvre, Paris, Rue de Rivoli on April 9, 2015 by xi'an
meet the president [of Tunisia]
Posted in Kids, pictures, Running, Travel with tags Arc de Triomphe, Champs-Elysées, Hotel Meurice, Le Louvre, Paris, RER A, Rue de Rivoli, traffic, Tunisia, Vélib on April 8, 2015 by xi'an
My trip to work was somewhat more eventful than usual this morning: as the queue to switch to the A train was too long for my taste, I exited the Chatelet station to grab a Vélib rental bike near Le Louvre and followed the Louvre palace for a few hundred meters, until reaching a police barricade that left the remainder of the Rivoli street empty, a surreal sight on a weekday! As it happened, Beji Caid Essebsi, the president of Tunisia was on a state visit to Paris and staying at the 5-star Hotel Meurice. And just about to leave the hotel. So I hanged out there for a few minutes and watched a caravan of official dark cars leave the place, preceded by police bikes in formal dress! The ride to Dauphine was not yet straightforward as the Champs-Elysées had been closed as well, since the president was attending a commemoration (for Tunisian soldiers who died in French wars?) at Arc de Triomphe. This created a mess for traffic in the surrounding streets. Especially with pedestrians escaping from stuck buses and crowding my sidewalks! And yet another surreal sight of the Place de l’Étoile with no car. (In this end, this initiative of mine took an extra 1/2 hour on my average transit time…)
Glimpse of Le Louvre
Posted in pictures with tags Le Louvre, musée d'Orsay, Paris on June 21, 2011 by xi'an
On Sunday, eading toward Musée d’Orsay (and an impossibly long queue to enter the Manet special exhibit), we had this glimpse of Pavillon de Flore of Le Louvre.
Another morning in Le Louvre
Posted in Kids, Travel with tags Babylonian mathematics, Le Louvre, sculpture on February 8, 2010 by xi'an
This Sunday morning visit to Le Louvre with my daughter was centred—her decision, not mine!—on sculptures, after an earlier exploration of the paintings. We still managed to walk through the Mesopotamian rooms, which is a part I really like, especially the tablets with the cuneiform script. Here is one describing the rules for handling fractions in their sexagesimal system and another one about computations on hexagons (from circa 2300).
