Category Archives: Paris

Paris 2014: The Man Who Saved Notre Dame

Posted on April 17, 2019 by crowcanyonjournal

The following is a third re-post this week of a  photo story that I uploaded to my blog after returning from our Paris vacation in 2014. The French Revolution began in 1789 as a revolt against the power of the … Continue reading →

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Paris 2014: Inside Notre-Dame de Paris (a re-post from 5 years ago)

Posted on April 16, 2019 by crowcanyonjournal

Here is another photo story I posted five years ago after returning from our three-week vacation in Paris. In this posting we look inside the magnificent Notre Dame Cathedral. The architecture we know today as Gothic developed in France in … Continue reading →

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Paris 2014: Notre Dame de Paris

Posted on April 15, 2019 by crowcanyonjournal

My wife and I spent three weeks in Paris in May of 2014 and during that time we visited Notre Dame twice. The following article is a re-post of an article I first uploaded on August 15, 2014. Later on … Continue reading →

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MM 203: From Under the Eiffel Tower

Posted on April 2, 2018 by crowcanyonjournal

We visited Paris for three weeks in the Spring of 2014 and one day I took a lot of shots of the Eiffel Tower including this one. It will be my entry for Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness Challenge this week … Continue reading →

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MM 3-45 Shadows of the Louvre

Posted on February 28, 2017 by crowcanyonjournal

Leanne’s theme this week for her Monochrome Madness Challenge is Shadows and I have decided to submit a photo I took on our trip to Paris in 2014 when we visited the Louvre a couple of times. On our second … Continue reading →

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Traveling with our Irish Cousins in Europe and the US

Posted on October 22, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

We stayed in Edinburgh for one week during our visit to Scotland this last May. And three of those days were spent with our Irish cousins Henry and Geraldine and Henry’s niece Rosie. It was our eighth reunion with our … Continue reading →

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Paris 2014: The Boulduc Apothecary Dynasty

Posted on January 5, 2015 by crowcanyonjournal

In the Spring of 2014 my wife and I traveled to Paris and I decided to spend one day getting acquainted with my Boulduc ancestors of Paris and Senlis, a small city about 100 km north of Paris. I discovered … Continue reading →

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Paris 2014: La Sainte-Chapelle and Violins

Posted on December 26, 2014 by crowcanyonjournal

We visited La Sainte-Chapelle twice during our stay in Paris last Spring. The first time was to admire the magnificent stained glass windows, two-thirds of which date back to the mid-13th century. Then we came back a few days later … Continue reading →

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Paris 2014: The Domes of Paris, Part Five: The Pantheon

Posted on December 15, 2014 by crowcanyonjournal

Well, we have finally come to the last posting on this series on the Domes of Paris. We started the series by looking at the two domes that most inspired Christopher Wren (see here and here) when he visited Paris … Continue reading →

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Paris 2014: The Domes of Paris, Part Four: Le Dome des Invalides

Posted on November 2, 2014 by crowcanyonjournal

I first became interested in buildings with domes when we toured Italy in 2009 and saw such magnificent churches as the Duomo of Florence and St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. We also got to visit the first great domed … Continue reading →

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