Collection(s) : Secret
Paru le 15/03/2012 | Broché 383 pages
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photos Stéphanie Rivoal | english translation Thomas Clegg, Caroline Lawrence and Jeremy Scott
Secret
Paris
A priest who blesses animals, winemaking firefighters, a tree in a church, an inverted phallus at a well-known entrance, an atomic bomb shelter under Gare de l'Est, a real Breton lighthouse near Montparnasse, unsuspected traces of former brothels, a patron saint of motorists, royal monograms hidden in the Louvre courtyard, the présentation of Christ's crown of thorns, a prehistoric merry- go-round, a sundial designed by Dalí, war-wounded palm trees, bullet holes at the ministry, religious plants in a priest's garden, a mysterious monument to Freemasonry at the Champ-de-Mars, a solid gold sphère in parliament, a Chinese temple in a parking lot, the effect of the Bièvre river on Parisian geography, a blockhouse in the Bois de Boulogne...
For those who thought they knew Paris well, the city is still teeming with unusual and secret places that are easily accessible.
