#baltard

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France during the Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise (Album du mariage de Marie-Louise et Napoléon Ier)

By Louis-Pierre Baltard — On the occasion of the wedding of Emperor Napoleon I and Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria, an illustrator, Louis-Pierre Baltard (1764-1846), undertook to retrace the ceremonies and festivals of the spring of 1810 and to make it the subject of an album drawn of eighteen sheets.

Images:

Illumination du Panthéon

Vue de l'Hôtel de Ville illuminé avec la tribune Impériale construite pour la circonstance

Illumination du pont de la Concorde et du Palais du Corps Législatif

Le Retour du cortège par la Galerie du Musée

Feu d'artifices et son décor élevé de l'autre de la Seine, quai Napoléon

Festin dans la deuxième salle provisoire construite dans la cour de l'Ecole Militaire

Le Banquet Impérial dans la salle de spectateur des Tuileries

Ascension en ballon de madame Blanchard

Ballet des danseurs de l'Opéra dans la salle de bal de l'Ecole Militaire

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"Les Halles ont le Ventre en Poupe" documentaire de Lionel Baillon, avril 2024.

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Jean-Claude Gautrand: L'Assassinat de Baltard (1971) Located: Paris

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Les Forts des Halles devant l'église Saint-Eustache, Paris, 1956. ph. Janine Niépce. - source PARIS de mes Amours.

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Louis-Pierre Baltard (circa 1800), Le Louvre au temps de Philippe-Auguste

“The Louvre Palace, which houses the museum, was begun by King Philip II in the late 12th century to protect the city... Remnants of the Medieval Louvre are still visible in the crypt... In the 14th century, Charles V converted the building from its military role into a residence. In 1546, Francis I started its rebuilding in French Renaissance style. After Louis XIV chose Versailles as his residence in 1682, construction works slowed to a halt... Meanwhile, the collections of the Louvre originated in the acquisitions of paintings and other artworks by the monarchs of the House of France... The Louvre finally became a public museum during the French Revolution.” The Louvre - Wikipedia

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source: bishopsbox

Victor Baltard: Church of Saint Augustin, Paris, elevation of the main facade

thanks to: @amore0429

via: Google Art Project

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Hermans doorziet de wereld achter de Hallen

Centre Pompidou; bron beeld: blogspot.com Het is 1977 als onze (Nederlandse) meest besproken schrijver zich buigt over de komst van Centre Pompidou. W.F. Hermans (1921-1995; daar gaat dit stuk over) woonde in Parijs, was de polder, roddel en achterklap ontvlucht en kon zich concentreren op wat er in de Lichtstad gebeurde. De opening van culturele tempel, museum en bibliotheek, vernoemd naar de��

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Jean-Claude Gautrand - L’assassinat de Baltard, c. 1972

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Jean Claude Gautrand

l'Assassinat de Baltard #15

Les Halles, Paris 1972

[yourpicasso25]

I will tell you a secret...

It's an easy but important one. So, question: Put 2 (or more) French people at a table. What are they going to talk about?

Fashion? It would depress most of us, especially not rake thin women 40s or older (and swimming costumes are NEVER to be mentionned, it's bordering on hanging offense)

Politics? first, we're irritable and sorta cranky by nature... but we're not crazy (mostly. Sorta)

Any ideas? (no peeking, and tell me what you guessed in the comments)

Done?

So let me tell you: Put 2 or more French people around a table, and what they will talk about is:

What they are eating right this minute, what they ate (any day any time from yesterday to 25 years ago), what they will eat in the more or less distant future.

Food (and drinks because they are related... no seriously) is a very VERY important business in France.

And one key element of that are the markets

Most small towns have permanent markets, mostly build in the 19th century in glass and iron structure like the Pavillons Baltard in Paris

There are permanent foodstall, jams and delicacy homemade cakes ans speciality local produces (and fish, of course!)

Then there are Market days. Twice a week.

And those are IMPORTANT days, people.

Because it's the place where you find the best produce, the tomatoes that graw up 2 miles away and the local honey that you can be pretty sure is actual bee vomit and not artifially colored glucose sirup (I was sooo angry when I learned that one)

So I'm giving you TWO markets. The everyday, business as usual one AND the market day one when everyone goes there with a couple of baskets to refuel both stomachs and conversation topics.

Next is this place, a big old town building

It has a shop downstair shop and a local on the first floor (I'm thinfing Yoga), a NPS lodging, an a big duplex appartment... with terrace, if you please.

The owners are well traveled, and settled in Voegel because they couldn't even dream to have that kind of flat in Paris (more like a broom closet)

There is an office, a VERY teenage girl bedroom with all sort of pop idols posters (mom despair... what happened to her little girl? Puberty, m'am), the aging (NOOOOO!) couple bedroom and a smallish but aquequate bathroom.

And a somewhat messy kitchen.

I'm getting vibes of a couple of 50 ish, Bobo Parisien, quite artistically inclined and maybe a bit snobbis, with limited artistic success so dad works as local newspaper photograph and mom mans the shop and gives yoga classes on the side.

Their daughter litterally CAN'T WAIT to leave that backmater island do go to University on the continent.

Isn't it funny how history can repeat itself sometimes?

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Robert Doisneau Structure métallique pavillon Baltard, les Halles, Paris 1969

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Léon et Lévy Un bel étal au Halles de Baltard 1900s. Paris

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The Murder of Baltard, 1971. Courtesy of the artist. © Jean-Claude Gautrand

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Le Café des Docks dans le bâtiment des Halles de Murat (Cantal), construites en 1890 dans une architecture de fer et de verre à la Baltard. Sous Napoléon III, on a vu naître ce type de halles, dites Baltard, car de nouvelles technologies permettaient la production en masse de fer, augmentant ainsi la portée des charpentes. Dans ces halles où tout espace était compté, une colonne en fonte remplaçait un mur. On gagnait ainsi en emplacement pour le commerce et, élément majeur, le fer était gage de résistance au feu. Autre avantage, il permettait de créer de superbes baies vitrées inconnues à cette époque. Restaurées en 1988, les Halles de Murat sont inscrites aux Monuments Historiques depuis le 7 octobre 1991.

[parisies]

Je vous écris de Paris,

Comme sur une carte postale ancienne,

Un kodachrome un peu passé.

Je sortais des pavillons Baltard,

Une dauphine klaxonnait devant une terrasse.

J’ai juste pris un café,

avec Queneau et Prévert.

Fin du rêve,

Début du réveil.

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Galaxy Warriors

Galaxy Warriors was a line of Masters of the Universe knockoff figures made by a company called Sungold, apparently starting in 1983.

It included Anubi

Baltard

Funny enough, in one of the Ladybird MotU books, Skeletor’s army at Snake Mountain includes wolfmen and orcs resembling these two.

On to Dino Man:

You’re probably noticing that these guys all have the exact same body with different heads. But look at the detail on Dino Man’s head!

Dragoon

He feels like a simpler version of the 2012 MotU Classics original character Draego-Man:

Huk

Magnon

Sahak

Sure, rather redundant with the Snake Men, but he came first.

Spikes

Weird name, but obviously the coolest of the humans with his jet black skin and hoplite helmet.

Thor. ... Thor?

Tiger Man

Triton

And Ygg!

Ygg has an awesomely creepy demon head, but gosh, the people at Sungold sure liked red trunks and brown boots + bracers. Brown-skinned Ygg is a duplicate of Anubi below the neck. Much the same for white humans Huk, Magnon and Triton.