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I just got back into Paris from working on a cheese farm around Bourbonnais. I’m leaving tomorrow for Dallas. Meanwhile, I was in the Metro when this happened. Apparently this was the best title they could come up with for French audiences.
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curate1k: $200Clipped Wing 2Amber Ibarrechearchival print, edition of 2016” x 20” make it mine
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Thursday is my last day of class. 

Saturday I’m basically leaving Paris until my next visit, which will be who knows when. I’m leaving for Moulins on Saturday. From there, I’ll go to a small cheese farm and learn how to make cheese for a few weeks. May 29th, I’ll head back to Paris, and rush from my 8h50 train to my flight to DFW at 11h30. 

I still have: 1 oral exam, 1 essay, and 1 exam to complete before then.

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Archaeological News: Bulldozers destroy 3,200-year-old Mayan pyramid in Belize

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BELIZE CITY – Bulldozers and backhoes have essentially destroyed one of Belize’s largest Mayan pyramids, which survived millennia of storms, rain and wind only to succumb to a construction company seeking gravel for road fill.

The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology says the…

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oldbookillustrations: St. Ouen, Rouen. Herman A. Webster, from Prints and their makers, by Fitzroy Carrington, London, 1913. (Source: archive.org) Sadly, the Abbey was closed when I visited. However, I was still able to look at the outside. Apparently, it still has not been fully restored since the bombings during WWII, since there was a sign in front warning pedestrians of falling rocks.
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Notre-Dame de Rouen (Photo credit to my friend Cristino) Friday, I left Paris for un petit sejour in Rouen, Normandie, which seems to be where old French people go to be tourists. This cathedral, a frequent subject of Monet’s paintings,  was severely damaged during WWII, along with many other buildings in the town such as the Palais de Justice and l’Abbaye Saint-Ouen. It has been mostly restored, but, as is evident from the picture, is still undergoing restoration. I found it to be more beautiful than Notre-Dame de Paris, and especially so the central tower, Tour Saint-Romain, which is composed of an incredible amount of thinly carved layers which make it appear to be made of lace.
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mediumaevum: Cover of the Gospel Book of Otto III (with tenth-century Byzantine ivory panel) c. 1000 The crossing of cultures (Western/Latin and Eastern/Byzantine) The Gospels of Otto III (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4453) is a late 10th or early 11th century illuminated Gospel Book. The manuscript contains the Vulgate versions of the four gospels plus prefatory matter including the Eusebian canon tables. The manuscript is a major example of Ottonian illumination. It was produced at Reichenau Abbey in the workshop headed by the monk Liuthard. The manuscript has 276 folios which measure 334mm by 242mm. The illumination includes a page miniature of the enthrone Otto III being brought gifts by personifications of the four provinces of the Empire, Roma, Gallia, Germania, and Sclavinia. The manuscript contains an additional 34 miniatures, including four evangelist portraits. In addition there are 12 decorated pages of canon tables, and each gospel is introduced by a full page decorated incipit page.
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oldbookillustrations: When you’re twenty. Honoré Daumier, from Daumier, peintre et lithographe (Daumier, painter and lithographer), by Raymond Escholier, Paris, 1923. (Source: archive.org)
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