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Grotesque Head [detail]

A good picture for All-Souls Night or Halloween!

A detail from Grotesque Head

Keywords: heads, statues, fountains, gargoyles, spooky, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-10-27

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Grotesque Head

By M. Legrain. From the Cascade Basin. [at the Paris Exhibition of 1878] A good gargoyle picture for All-Souls Night or Halloween! “These masks, modelled by M. Legrain, were among the most amusing ex [...]

Keywords: heads, statues, fountains, gargoyles, spooky, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-10-27

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Colossal Bull

By M. Cain. Grand Basin of the Trocadéro Palace.) “One of the chief features of the paris Exhibition of 1878 was the magnificent waterfall beneath the Trocadéro Palace and the grand basin at the foot [...]

Keywords: statues, bulls, animals

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-10-27

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Arches of Cloister of S. Aubin’s Abbey, Angers

The Abbey of S. Aubin, founded in Merovingian times, seems to have been rebuilt by Geoffrey Greygown and Fulk the Black. “Only one huge tower remains, but fragments of it are still to be seen embedde [...]

Keywords: ruins, pillars, arches, abbeys, occult, spooky, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Angers; Maine-et-Loire; France

Added: 2008-07-07

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Blois

The spires of Blois cathedral are seen across the River Loire. “To most travellers in France the town of Blois is associated with a château rather than with a cathedral; it is oneof a group or towns k [...]

Keywords: cityscapes, views, rivers, water, cathedrals, spires

Places shown: Blois; Loir-et-Cher; France

Added: 2006-09-16

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Frontispiece: Lâon, View From the Plain

The Cathedral of Lâon, or Laon, Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Laon, was built in the 12th century. “Voillet-le-Duc, in his review of the cathedral of Lâon, says that it has a certain ring of democracy and [...]

Keywords: colour, cityscapes, views, cathedrals, sheep, hills, trees

Places shown: Lâon; Picardy; France

Added: 2006-06-29

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Angers

“The French yearning to make everything new” has done its work in Angers, but through Fulk, Geoffrey, René, and the rest would be at a loss to recognise their old capital in the trim modern town, enou [...]

Keywords: cityscapes, views, rivers, water, cathedrals, spires

Places shown: Angers; Maine-et-Loire; France

Added: 2008-07-09

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Chartres

Chartres Cathedral, Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres, “Cathedral of Our Lady in Chartres” was rebuilt in the 13th century after it was destroyed by lightning in 1194. “ “Chartres,” says Mr. Henry jam [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, cityscapes, views, colour, trees, water, sunsets, bridges

Places shown: Chartres; Eure-et-Loir; France

Added: 2006-06-30

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Porte du Croux, Nevers

“The fourth attraction of Nevers, the high square gateway tower known as the Porte du Croux, may also be bregarded as a relic of feudal days, seeing that it dates from 1398, and was evidently part of [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, people

Places shown: Nevers; France

Added: 2007-02-05

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11.—Gaulish Deity. Cernunnos.

The Celtic god Cernunnos is crowned with antlers. He is sometimes also called as Herne the Hunter, and may be the Green Man of British folklore. “[...] Under the church of Notre Dame, at Paris, were f [...]

Keywords: spirit, druids, gods, religion

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-12-20

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13.—Two Druids. Bas-relief found at Autun.

This carved likeness was found in an earth burial-mound, a barrow. “These remarkable monuments contain not only the bones and the ashes of the dead, but various articles of utility and ornament, domes [...]

Keywords: people, beards, astrology, druids, robes

Places shown: Autun; Burgandy; France

Added: 2005-12-20

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12.—Gaulish Deity. Hesus.

A Celtic war god

Keywords: spirit, druids, gods, religion, spooky

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-12-20

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