Paris by cell, a cellphone journey in Paris

PARIS by CELL

A cellphone journey on Paris

Aníbal G. Maíz Cáceres

PARIS by CELL A cellphone

journey on Paris

Why this book?

Everybody takes pictures, everybody is a potential artist

This book is about showing the photos I took with my cell phone on my last trip to Paris. It does not seek to be a book about photography or perfection on the images, they are simply my photo trip through Paris, just like any tourist does.

They do not have any special order, but the one of my own taste.

Take a tour and enjoy my journey in Paris streets.

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Gare du Nord metro station, rush hour

Cité metro station

Any visit to Paris has the Metro as a common deniminator. The city has the densest metro systems in the world, with 244 stations within the 105.4 km2 (41 sq mi). This trip begins, then, in the subway.

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Notre Dame Cathedral

Notre-Dame de Paris, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. The cathedral, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture

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The Musée d’Orsay was originally built as a train station to bring visitors to the 1900 World’s Fair. Former Gare d’Orsay. The River Seine inherited its name from Sequana, the Celtic deity that inhabited its sacred source.

Sun set on the Seine river

Musée d’Orsay

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Mr Jean Duluc, a former investigator, founded Agence Duluc in 1913. La rue serpente formerly “Vieus serpenti” dates from 1180. Its name comes from a sing representing a serpent and not because it twisted.

Rue du Louvre Rue serpente

Rue Danton, was only built between 1888 and 1895 and was named after the French revolutionary Danton from the start. The Tour d’Argent restaurant claims that it was founded in 1582, and that it was frequented by Henri IV, but it offers no documentation to support these or other claims about its history. The pressed duck, is the speciality. The restaurant raises its ducks on its own farm.

Rue Danton

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Palais Brongniart

Place de la Bourse

The Palais Brongniart housed the historical Paris stock exchange. It is located at the Place de la Bourse, in the II arrondissement.

The passage was built at the behest of Marchoux, President of the Chamber of Notaries. Completed in 1826, the passage was originally called ‘Passage Marchoux,’ though this was swiftly changed to Vivienne. The street takes its name from the fact that it was the main street of the Faubourg Montmartre. Himself takes its name from its location: at the exit of the city, in the direction of Montmartre.

Galerie

Vivienne

Rue du Faubourg Montmartre

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Place des Petits-Pères is a stunning medium sized plaza formed in 1805, named after the Parisian monastery and Augustins convent, who were called “Petits-Pères.” La Rue des Petits Carreaux dates back to the 12th century. The previous names of this street were Rue Montorgueil and Rue des Boucheries. The rue Reaumur is the most important symbol of Paris architecture in the early 20th century, bearing the signs of a new urbanism imagined at that time.

Place des Petits Pères

Rue Réaumur

Rue des Petits Carreaux

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Louis XIII founded Notre-Dame des Victoires in 1629. Church dedicated and consecrated in honor of the Blessed Virgin, in recognition of all the victories he had won over the rebellious heretics and in remembrance of the capture of La Rochelle over the rotestants. La rue du Cardinal Lemoine bears the name of the French cardinal Jean Lemoine (1250-1313), cardinal-legate of Pope Boniface VIII. -

Rue du Cardinal Lemoine

Notre-Dame des Victoires

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The Hôtel de Ville is the city hall of Paris. It was burned by the Paris Commune during the Commune’s final days in May 1871. La Louve Capitoline in the square Paul Painlevé is a bronze replica offered as a sign of friendship by the City of Rome to the City of Paris in 1962. As part of the exclusive twinning between the City Lumière and the Eternal City, twinning sealed by a motto “Only Paris is worthy of Rome, only Rome is worthy of Paris”

Hôtel de Ville

Square Paul Painlevé

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Place des Victoires

The Gare de Lyon, officially Paris-Gare-de-Lyon, is one of the six large mainline railway stations in Paris, France. The Place des Victoires is a circular place. At the center is an equestrian monument in honor of King Louis XIV, celebrating the Treaties of Nijmegen concluded in 1678-79.

Gare de Lyon

Mairie du II: The town hall of the former 3rd arrondissement. The building was constructed from late 1848. La Rue Mouffetard is a remnant of an old Roman road. Some buildings date from the 12th century. Is one of Paris’s oldest and liveliest neighbourhoods.

Rue Mouffetard

Mairie

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The Palais Garnier, also known as Opéra Garnier, is a 1,979-seat opera house at the Place de l’Opéra. It was built for the Paris Opera from 1861 to 1875 at the behest of Emperor Napoleon III The Vendôme column is a monument by order of Napoleon I from 1806 to 1810 to commemorate the Battle of Austerlitz, then destroyed during the Paris Commune in 1871, before being rebuilt in its current form..

Colonne Vendôme

Place Vendôme

The Porte Saint-Denis is a Parisian monument located in the 10th arrondissement, at the site of one of the gates of the Wall of Charles V, one of Paris’ former city walls. The Porte SaintMartin was built in honor of Louis XIV victories on the Rhine and in Franche-Comté. It replaced a medieval gate in the city walls built by Charles V. Passage du Désir is located in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. This road was so called by the inhabitants of the district in 1789.

Porte Saint Denis

Passage du Désir

Porte Saint Martin

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Avenue des Champs- Elysées

The origins of the Champs-Élysées can be traced to 1640 when space was cleared to plant a line of trees. The name translates to “Elysian Fields” from the Greek mythology, meaning resting place of Greek gods and dead heroes. Rue des Colonnes street is one of the rare examples of French Revolution urbanism. It served as model for the creation of the rue de Rivoli, open in the early 19th century. The Church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul is a church in the 10th arrondissement of Paris that gives its name to the Quartier Saint-Vincent-de-Paul around it.

Saint-Vincent de Paul

Rue des Colonnes

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Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois

The Hôtel de Ville is the city hall of Paris, France, standing on the Place de l’Hôtel-de-Ville in the 4th arrondissement. The Church of Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois is a Roman Catholic church, named for Germanus of Auxerre, the Bishop of Auxerre (378-448), who became a papal envoy and who met Saint Genevieve, the patron Saint of Paris, on his journeys.

Hôtel de Ville

The Thermes de Cluny are the relatively well preserved ruins of what was a massive public bathhouse constructed by the Romans during the 3rd century AD. The Canal Saint-Martin is a 4.6 km long canal in Paris, connecting the Canal de l’Ourcq to the river Seine. Over nearly half its length, between the Rue du Faubourg du Temple and the Place de la Bastille, it was covered, in the mid-19th century, to create wide boulevards and public spaces on the surface.

Canal Saint Martin

Musée de Cluny

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The Opéra-Comique is a Paris opera company founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was merged with – and for a time took the name of – its chief rival, the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne. The Passage Verdeau opened to the public in 1847. It started to draw the crowds in 1852, when the auction house Hôtel Drouot opened next door. Many antiques dealers indeed opened a shop in the passage.

Canal Saint Martin

Passage Verdeau

The boulevard takes its name from Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784), French writer and philosopher; one of the main editors of the Encyclopedia. The French National Museum of Natural History is the national natural history museum of France. It was formally founded in 1793 during the French Revolution, but was begun even earlier in 1635 as the royal garden of medicinal plants.

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The first gare de Lyon opened in 1847 but it was built completely new in 1899 in time for the World Exposition of 1900, with 13 platforms. And so it was, like every tourist trip, it has an end. From platform A I said farewell and until next time, Paris.

Gare de Lyon

All photos were taken by myself, Anibal G. Maiz Caceres during a visit to Paris, between February and April 2022. Any reproduction is forbiden.

Copyright Anibal G. Maiz Caceres 2022

Cover photo pixabay.com

PARIS by CELL

A cellphone journey on Paris