“A La Mort, On Laisse Tout”: At Death, We Leave Everything.
Les Catacombes de Paris are a maze of Ossuaries which contain millions of skeletons. First built in 1774, they were needed because of the overflowing and increasingly unhygienic cemeteries in Paris.
It was largely forgotten until it became a venue for macabre music concerts in the late 19th century (the most famous one being around the barrel shaped thing in the first photo)
The Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital was originally a gunpowder factory in the 17th century but then morphed into this beast of a hospital. It became the world’s largest on the eve of the French Revolution. The painting on the final image (“A Clinical lesson at the Salpetriere”) shows the time when the clinical lead Jean-Martin Charcot made the hospital renowned for neuropsychiatry. Here he is showing a young lady with “hysteria” to his students which included names like Sigmund Freud, Babinski, Janet, Tourette and many others. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #paris #hysteria #architecture #theparisguru #paris_focus_on #parisphotography #parisestmagique #hysterical #parisgram #parismaville #parislifestyle #pariscartepostale #architectureporn #parisianlife #neuropsychology #historyofmedicine #travelawesome #wanderlust #instatravel #francephoto #igersfrance #parisgram #archaddicts #psychiatry #neurology #parisjetaime #igersparis #parisienne #parisian #medicine #hospital (at 13eme arrondissement, Paris) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7S0CQ1FmhB/?igshid=drr9fkrrpjsw
My artwork of Marie Laforêt in Claude Chabrol’s 1965 film Blue Panther aka Marie-Chantal vs. Doctor Kha is part of my 15% off sale at my Etsy shop which lasts until the end of this month. 136 items for femme fatales and lovers of classic cinema
Born on this day: the radiant Catherine Deneuve! A watercolor painting I did years ago is now available as a print on Etsy. My favorite films of hers are Belle de Jour&The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Yours?