In 1902, the French artist Henri Rivière published a collection of lithographies called "Thirty-six Views of the Eiffel Tower", inspired by Hokusai's "100 Views of the Mount Fuji". 100 years later, the French comic artist André Juillard took up the idea and some of Riviere's motifs to draw his own 36 views of France's most famous monument - a very poetic attempt to show how a subject changes from various points of view...I like this book so much that I looked up and photographed some of the places Juillard had chosen for his book - not always easy to find (and in some views the Eiffel Tower is not easy to spot) - click thumbs to view a larger picture:

Place de la Concorde

Mirabeau Bridge, left bank of the Seine

Same Bridge, opposite side

Port de la Concorde

Tuileries

Quai Branly

Looks like a lost place, but actually one of the most crowded tourist spots directly in front of the Sacre-Coeur church. In the left corner the same motif by Henri Riviere, it didn't change much during the last 100 years.

This place, however, changed a lot during the last few years: from Porte d'Ivry, far from the city center...

Some more snapshots from last week (click thumbs)...:

This is a remarkable view which combines Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty (yes, France has one, too!) and Sacre-Coeur (in the background)!

The sky over Paris, some days friendly (left), on other days more dramatic (right, from Place Vendome)

The Champs-Elysees, during the Belle Epoque the place to go on hot summer nights - Marcel Proust wrote 4000 pages about this time...you can still see the room (right) where he finished the most voluminous novel of the world, "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu" (In Search of Lost Time).

And in the same museum, a nice pair of titties!: