Moulin Rouge

Sender: Goyesca
F is for FRIVOLITY!

Moulin Rouge, Paris. 

I only passed by this area during my stay in Paris. Basically me & my pals just gawked at the sights through the window of our slowly driven cab. 

It was too cold and rainy for us to venture out & walk along those streets, despite the cabbie's vehement pleas for us to do so & experience...err..something different & exciting behind the doors of the buildings. Alas, by that time we had already walked miles and miles at a religious historical attraction uphill and the cold had really really killed our excitement for any kind of nightlife. All we wanted to do by then was to return to our apartment for dinner & then hit the beds! The cabbie could not believe us! Haha!

A Woman Reading

Sender: Poppycocteau
Claude Monet (1840-1926), "A Woman Reading"

Here's an adventure! what awaits

Beyond these closed, mysterious gates?

Whom shall I meet, where shall I go?

Beyond the lovely land I know?

Above the sky, across the sea?

What shall I learn and feel and be?

Open, strange doors, to good or ill!

I hold my breath a moment still!

Before the magic of your look.

What shall you do to me, O Book?

Roaming Cats

Sender: Petit Pilote

Art by contemporary artist Colette Brunelière. One of her favourite subjects is painting black cats roamimg the roofs and this card is a fine example. I love it!

Sacre Coeur

Sender: Avanesdonk

The French Connection: Sacre Coeur from Orsay Museum

( I love artistic photos like this!)

Madame Au Bain

Sender: Poppycocteau

Madame Au Bain - The Bath

Yahoo for this Nouvelles Images card! 

Fish Soup

Sender: Annick
A fish soup recipe card from France! Yum yum!

Palais De La Bourse

Sender: VincentJJ

Place de la Bourse(1730–1775)

VincentJJ is from Netherlands but living mainly in France now, hence this card showing a historic French city, Bordeaux. The historic part of the city is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Smiling Dragon Spreading Happiness

Sender: Petit Pilote
'S' is for a 'Smiling' dragon 'Spreading' happiness! :)
A feel good card!

Mont-Saint-Michel

Sender: Petit Pilote

The Monastery of Mont-Saint-Michel

A Gothic-style Benedictine abbey dedicated to the archangel St Michael perched on a rocky islet

Savon Love

Sender: Petit Pilote

Is my translation correct? "Love soap, it smells good and gives ideas of love!"  

Cute Valentine's Day card!

Arles Amphitheatre

Sender: Jacqueline01

Arles Amphitheatre (view from the North), a Roman sports arena able to accommodate about 26,000 spectators.

Armageddon

Sender: Pascal Jean

"Armageddon"

Armageddon (1998), a story about the danger of an asteroid hitting the earth and ending the world. NASA tries to stop it by drilling a hole in its surface and blowing up the asteroid from the inside out. The film features a star-studded cast including Bruce Willis, Owen Wilson, Michael Clarke Duncan, Ben Affleck and Steven Tyler's daughter, Liv Tyler. But the main thing I remember from this movie is Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing”!

I could stay awake just to hear you breathing

Watch you smile while you are sleeping

While you're far away and dreaming

I could spend my life in this sweet surrender

I could stay lost in this moment forever

Where every moment spent with you is a moment I treasure

Don't want to close my eyes

I don't want to fall asleep

Cause I'd miss you babe

And I don't want to miss a thing

Cause even when I dream of you

The sweetest dream will never do

I'd still miss you babe

And I don't want to miss a thing

Lying close to you feeling your heart beating

And I'm wondering what you're dreaming

Wondering if it's me you're seeing

Then I kiss your eyes

And thank God we're together

I just want to stay with you in this moment forever

Forever and ever

I don't want to close my eyes

I don't want to fall asleep

Cause I'd miss you babe

And I don't want to miss a thing

Cause even when I dream of you

The sweetest dream will never do

I'd still miss you babe

And I don't want to miss a thing

I don't want to miss one smile

I don't want to miss one kiss

I just want to be with you

Right here with you, just like this

I just want to hold you close

Feel your heart so close to mine

And just stay here in this moment

For all the rest of time Yeah yeah yeah

I don't want to close my eyes

I don't want to fall asleep

Cause I'd miss you babe

And I don't want to miss a thing

Cause even when I dream of you

The sweetest dream will never do

I'd still miss you babe

And I don't want to miss a thing

I Don't want to close my eyes

I don't want to fall asleep

Cause I'd miss you babe

And I don't want to miss a thing

Cause even when I dream of you

The sweetest dream will never do

I'd still miss you babe

And I don't want to miss a thing

Don't want to close my eyes

I don't want to fall asleep

And I don't want to miss a thing...

Triskel

Sender: Vitalia

Triskel - Representing the 3 forces of nature: Earth - Water- Fire. 

One of the oldest Celtic motifs representing 3 rays of sunshine.

Le Cirque, 1891

Sender: Chris_in_burgundy

Georges Seurat (1859-1891)

Le Cirque, 1891

A circus painting by the French artist Georges Seurat in Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Skiers in the White Valley

Sender: Gaël
Text on card: "Skieurs Au Passage Des Séracs Dans La Vallée Blance"
Translated: Skiers passing seracs in the white valley (I think?)

Can you see the itsy-bitsy teenie-weenie skiers on the right side of the card? Eeee....I would not dare be like them and ski down the steep valley/slope/hill/ whatever! (As if I could ski!?!) And if I did, I would have left my tummy and bravado way up at the start and went all the way down yelling for my mother, (and perhaps triggering an avalanche! No!). 

Therefore, to save all the skiers in any ski steep slopes, Lufra has Magnanimously Decided Not To Venture in such extreme sports.  :-D

The sender himself, I presume! A happy Postcrosser!  :D

And this sticker, it made me laugh! :D

Vannes

Sender: Lapoussine35

Vannes - The yachting port

Vannes is one of Brittany's must-visits. I've seen pictures of this town and I'd like to wander around its well-preserved medieval streets and also take a boat trip around the port...

La Vieille Bourse de Lille

Sender: Sunsky

Text on card: La Vieille Bourse de Lille. The Flemish Renaissance style is magnified by this old building erected end of the XVII Century. Here is the heart of Lille (North of France).

The old stock exchange. A quandrangle of 24 privately purchased, ornately decorated yet identical houses surrounding an interior rectangular courtyard where trading could take place. Access into the courtyard is through any one of the four arches located at each of the four sides.

Blue Bicycle and House

Sender: Petit Pilote
The Blue Bicycle
Colours of Bretagne

This is a very pretty card! <3   <3

L'Eclade De Moules

Sender: Auroreweb
Cuisine Regionale ~ L'Eclade de moules

Help! I need the proper translation for the words in the right panel of this card...I did try to use the internet translator but the sentences sure sounded weird. I think it is a mussels bake recipe though.

Shoes and Eiffel Tower

Sender: Petit Pilote
'S' is for 'Shoes'
Shoes and Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1974

A Nouvelles Images card! I just adore this artistic composition! Don't you?