The Palais d l'Institut in paris is the home of the Institut de france that groups five académies with perhaps the most well known being the Académie française, established in 1635 and concerning itself with the French language.
The members of the Académie française try to resist the tide of Anglicization and reject phrases like ‘le weekend' ignoring its popularity among the populace for the more elitist alternative. This despite the fact that the French elite know well what can happen when they ignore the will of the common people.
But who am I to mock? After all, I am a Fellow of the royal Geographical Society (omitting the ‘with IBG' that was tacked on when the society merged with the Institute of British Geographers in January 1995).
Today's photo was taken from the Pont du Carrousel looking towards the Pont des Arts and the Ile de la Cité at about 11:00pm local time in late July.
I'm not really sure if the low cloud helps or hinders the image and I did toy with the thought of cutting in a sharp image of the moon from another photo but decided against it since I don't think it would have looked right given the cloud in front of it.
I had to wait a few minutes for the Bateaux Mouches boat to hide itself within the scene. The megawatts of light those things emit at night are truly obnoxious and I would think most annoying to those that live alongside the Seine.
The Palais d l'Institut is the building on the right of the frame with the dome on top of it. To the left of that, on the Isle de la Cité, you can see the twin towers of Notre Dame and just left of that, the dark spire of Sainte Chapelle.
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