From the tour looking southeast towards the École Militaire and the 7th beyond.

From the Pont des Art pedestrian bridge on yet another one of those near frozen Paris mornings. That's probably why this one is unfinished.
Engineer: Louis Arretche

“Victory crowns the togaed Napoleon with a laurel wreath while a town surrenders at his feet, History inscribes the names of the battles won on a stone tablet, and Fame blows a trumpet.”
Left side of arch facing the Champs Élysées
(text copped from a discarded guide book found on the train.)

fast, cheap and extremely efficient

the noble arch

I have never met Napoleon

But I plan to find the time

'Cause he looks so fine upon that hill

They tell me he was lonely,

he's lonely still

Those days are gone forever

Over a long time ago.


-Donald Fagen / Walter Becker

The late afternoon sun sent this building fronting the Champs de Mar virtually ablaze

The Rose Window at Notre Dame de Paris.western facade viewed from the south transept. 13th century.
wussed out on the color

One of the ubiquitous bookinistes along the Rive Gauche.

First sketch, November 2007 .. It was drawn on the back of a Google map print out after I got lost trying to find the American Express office. My card had an alert on it because " someone was trying to use your card in Paris." so said the woman on my cell phone from Bangalore.