Le cénotaphe

Louis XIV's cenotaph, a 1/5th model by Pier Luigi Pizzi... VDP loved the photo op it provided.

Maquette au 1/5ème, réalisée par Pier Luigi Pizzi du cénotaphe de Louis XIV...

Below is the king's funeral procession.

Ci-dessous, la procession funèbre du roi.

Party

Having fun

Aloha

For some reason on a cold winter day in St. Louis, my thoughts drift to an image of Marge Simpson in Hawaii wearing a slinky dress. (Conditions here must be hard.) Actually, I found this in a shop window in the University City Loop.

Mrs. C and I love the Simpsons. It is the only consistently literate show on TV, which makes me wonder how it has lasted for so many years. There are lots of interesting details about Marge. Did you know her middle name is Jacqueline and her maiden name was Bouvier, as in Jackie Kennedy? And that hair! It's said to be based on a combination of the bride's in Bride of Frankenstein and the style cartoonist Matt Groening's mother wore in the 60s. But why blue?

The theme for City Daily Photo bloggers on February 1 is
"A Scene from a Cafe or Coffee House.”

                   

Eventails de deuil

Back at the 'the king is dead' exhibition, some mourning fans. Fashionable mourning... with a reflection of this.

De retour à l'expo "le roi est mort", les éventails de deuil ou la mode en deuil... Avec un reflet de ceci.

Beer Sheva's Holocaust Memorial

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The United Nations decided that January 27, the day on which Auschwitz was liberated, should be the International Day in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
Israel has its own day, in the spring, to remember the Shoah.

This is Beer Sheva's memorial square "to remember the victims of the Holocaust."
The four words written in Hebrew are from the Book of Esther 9:28 and mean
"Their memory will not fade from their descendants"
or in a different translation,
"The memorial of them should not perish from their seed."
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