More Seemingly Random Paris Scenes

Although the post titles might suggest otherwise, we are not really a flaneur and flaneuse. As Baudelaire defined the term, the flaneur wanders the streets of Paris aimlessly. We're just tourists, wandering, yes, but almost always with some destination, some goal. And, I think it might be argued, even the flaneur has goals, those of observation and understanding. But whatever. I digress. In Paris, wandering, whether aimlessly or not, always reveals interesting sights and elicits interesting thoughts...

The eclairage, aka the Twinkling, of the Tour Eiffel

Vicki and sister Marie, there, then

Another day, I am wandering the 6th, to find Messie Nessie's
Cabinet of Curiosities, a place much to my taste, but not
everyone's

Nothing can top Paris ghost signs

In 2014, I searched all over for lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves,
galangol root...now SE Asian markets are everywhere...

August Comte monument at...

The Sorbonne

And, of course, where else but Paris and the Latin Quarter would
you find a bookstore that just does philosophy?

Another day, at a Vide Grenier at nearby Notre Dame
des Champs...a  neighborhood street sale 

Can be wonderful if it's just the neighborhood residents; not so
wonderful if it's mostly the pros

Now at Marche Edgar Quinet, the big market at
Montparasse...largest offering of oysters I've seen
inland

Enough to outfit a small regiment of pelerins...pilgrims on the Way of St. James...

At one of the famous Montparnasse restaurants...all of them claim Hemingway
was a regular

Witnessing the Paris Marathon from the Passerelle Leopold-Sedar-Senghor,
across the river from the Orsay

Allez! Allez! Allez!

Be afraid, be very afraid of what can be done with AI

Had to go back to Galeries Lafayette for the end of the 30% off 'sale';
by law, there are only the winter and summer "sale" periods in France,
although merchants can do sales anytime just as long as they don't use 
the world "sales" ("soldes"); just FYI 

Nothing beats Parisian ghost signs

At a boulangerie in the 15th