Without Lifting A Finger

                    ***     Louis Félix-Auguste-Beaujour, (Louis-Auguste Feris) (born 28 December 1765 Callas, Var - July 1, 1836 Paris) was a French diplomat , politician, historian, and French ambassador to the United States .     Biography   He studied in Aix-en-Provence and Paris, and entered the diplomatic service. He was successively secretary of legation in Munich in 1790, and Dresden in 1791, then consul general in Greece in 1794, and Consul General in charge of business in Sweden in 1799. Back in France in 1800, Abbe Sieyes , appointed him a member of the Tribunat , where he was successively secretary and president of the Tribunat in 1803. Upon the dissolution of the assembly, he went to the United States as Commissioner General, with a mission to raise the money for the French government, that had been delegated to Mexico, by Spanish subsidies. After co...

Pere Lachaise was close enough to our 3rd hotel that I didn't have to take a Metro. Besides I wanted to walk: see things along the way. I woke early--even Mickey D's was closed on the corner--and walked in cool, on-and-off-rain. Had forgot to check when it opens (I was off an hour plus). OK, I had a couple coffees and a pain aux raisin. Kept dry by sitting at a busstop; kept warm by pacing over a vent. I only wanted three biggies (de Nerval, Balzac, Proust) and Aux Morts : I  got that and a little more.                                                                                                   ...

PAINS aux RAISINS , a photo by Mary.Do on Flickr. My preferred breakfast fare.

Pain aux raisins ( French pronunciation: ​ [pɛ̃ o rɛ.zɛ̃] ), is a breakfast food often eaten in France that is directly translated to raisin bread . It is also colloquially known as snail bread in Australia. Pain aux raisins is a member of the pâtisserie viennoise family of baked foods. In France, it is typically a variant of the croissant or pain au chocolat , made with a leavened butter pastry with raisins added and shaped in a spiral with a crème pâtissière filling. However, in many areas of Northern Europe and North America, it is generally made with sweetened bread dough or brioche dough, rather than pastry. It is often consumed for breakfast as a part of a Continental breakfast . [From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_aux_raisins ]

Here are a few more images we saw in and around the Louvre (I didn't shoot the Mona--though she always tries to me--because I was making a worthless gesture: I didn't want to be like the mob of trophy hunters and/or perspiring Waldos):                                                                                         

Not knowing him (and yet "tickled" by some of what I saw), I "sampled" some of his work in the Louvre.                                                           

Michelangelo Pistoletto (born 25 June 1933) is an Italian painter , action and object artist, and art theorist . Pistoletto is acknowledged as one of the main representatives of the Italian Arte Povera . His work mainly deals with the subject matter of reflection and the unification of art and everyday life in terms of a Gesamtkunstwerk . Biography [ edit ] Pistoletto was born at Biella . From 1947 until 1958, Pistoletto worked in his father’s restoration workshop in Turin . In the 1950s, he started painting figurative works and self-portraits . In 1959, he participated in the Biennale di San Marino . In the following year, he had his first solo exhibition in the Galleria Galatea in Turin. In the beginning of the 1960s, Pistoletto started painting figurative works and self-portraits which he painted on a monochrome, metallic background. Later on, he combined painting with photography using collage techniques on reflective backgrounds. Eventually, he switched over to print...

    

Man Ray (1890–1976). Observatory Time—The Lover, c. 1931; color photograph, 1964 , a photo by jingqun luo on Flickr. His lips.

Something I forgot from the Pompidou: