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The Eternal Quest for Beautiful Fesses – Our Fesses of the Month

Saturday, October 14th, 2017
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Fontaine de Mars

Fontaine de Mars by Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet
Photograph by Discover Paris!

The Fontaine de Mars is a large fountain that was installed around 1806 – 1808 on rue Saint-Dominique in the 7th arrondissement. On the eastern and western flanks of the fountain are vases, both of which depict the same fetching goddess. The features of her pulchritudinous fanny are clearly visible to fortunate passersby who happen to glance up.

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The Eternal Quest for Beautiful Fesses – Our Fesses of the Month

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014
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Le Miroir d'Eau in the Square Jean-Perrin

Miroir d’Eau in the Square jean-Perrin
Photograph by www.DiscoverParis.net

Around the corner from the Champs-Elysées Clémenceau metro station, in the Square Jean-Perrin, stands a large oval fountain designed by sculptor François-Raoul Larche in 1910. Named Miroir d’eau, la Seine et ses affluents, it displays three allegorical groups that represent the tributaries of the Seine. Each group consists of a woman, each accompanied by two children, all evoking nine tributaries: L’Aube, Le Loing, L’Essonne, L’Yonne, L’Armançon, La Cure, L’Oise, La Marne, and Le Petit Morin.

The sculpted marble figures are shown admiring their own reflections in the water, and, at the same time, revealing their magnificent naked buttocks to real-life humans passing by.

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The Eternal Quest for Beautiful Fesses – Our Fesses of the Month

Tuesday, April 8th, 2014
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Tom Taking Photo of Fesses in the Former Delorme Passage

Tom Taking Photograph of Fesses in the Former Delorme Passage
Photograph by www.DiscoverParis.net

Most of the covered passages of Paris were built in the first half of the 19th century. Essentially, they were shopping malls that led from one street to another.

Built in 1808, the Delorme passage linked rue de Rivoli at number 188 with rue Saint-Honore at number 177. It was destroyed in 1896, but several bas-relief sculptures that decorated the passage have been preserved. They can be viewed at the entrance of the apartment building at 177, rue Saint-Honoré.

All of the sculptures are of women. One bares here lovely fesses, with her tunic slipping demurely below the level of the fanny.

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The Eternal Quest for Beautiful Fesses – Our Fesses of the Month

Tuesday, July 9th, 2013
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Cassandre Seeking the Protection of Athena

Tom Photographing Cassandre Seeking the Protection of Athena
Marble Sculpture by Aimé Millet – 1877
Photograph by www.DiscoverParis.net

July 2013 – Fesses of the Month

Beautiful fesses abound in Paris! This month our photographer found a lovely pair in the Tuileries Garden.

In 1877, French sculptor Aimé Millet created this marble representation of Cassandre seeking the protection of the goddess Athena. Considered one of the most beautiful women in the world, Cassandra possessed the gift of prophesy, an attribute that had been bestowed on her by Apollo.

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The Eternal Quest for Beautiful Fesses – Our Fesses of the Month

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
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Tom on Assignment

Tom on Assignment
Photograph by www.DiscoverParis.net

June 2013 – Fesses of the Month

To photograph this month’s featured fesses, our intrepid blogger visited one of Paris’s most beautiful gardens. There, he found a lovely set on the façade of a remarkable palace.

Follow the link below to learn the location of this haut-relief sculpture and to view a close-up shot of the subject’s lovely fesses!

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The Eternal Quest for Beautiful Fesses – Our Fesses of the Month

Thursday, May 16th, 2013
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Tom on assignment

Tom on Assignment
Photograph by www.DiscoverParis.net

May 2013 – Fesses of the Month

To photograph this month’s fesses, our intrepid blogger traveled to the far reaches of Paris’ 12th arrondissement. He had to take three trains to get there!

Follow the link to learn the name of this sculpture, the name of its creator, the name of the park near its location, and a close-up shot of her admirable fesses!

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The Big Bang Boom Bloggers’ Meet-up and Tweeps’ Tweet-up Is Now History

Thursday, March 14th, 2013
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Mary Kay Bosshart - Adrian Leeds - Rosemary Kneipp - Tom Reeves - Lisa Rankin - Thomas Butler - Donna Morris - Marie Gantois

Mary Kay Bosshart – Adrian Leeds – Rosemary Kneipp – Tom Reeves – Lisa Rankin – Thomas Butler – Donna Morris – Marie Gantois
Photograph by www.DiscoverParis.net

The Big Bang Boom Bloggers’ Meet-up and Tweeps’ Tweet-up is now history, and what an event it was! Bloggers and tweeps braved freezing weather and icy streets on Tuesday evening to attend the social mixer that we hosted at the Caveau Montpensier. A big thank-you goes out to Jeb, the owner, for providing space for us to meet, and to Priscila Pilon (Weekend in Paris) and Forest Collins (52 Martinis) for their invaluable advice and suggestions about how to organize this event.

Thomas Butler - Elizabeth Milovidov - Niki Borofski jpg

Thomas Butler – Elizabeth Milovidov – Niki Borofski
Photograph by www.DiscoverParis.net

The event was a great opportunity for people to come together, renew old acquaintances, and to make new ones! The following persons attended:

Andrea Carroll and Donna Morris

Andrea Carroll and Donna Morris
Photograph by www.DiscoverParis.net

Elizabeth Milovidov with Chocolate Sculpture

Elizabeth Milovidov with Chocolate Sculpture
Photograph by www.DiscoverParis.net

The big attraction for the evening—and probably the real reason why people showed up in spite of the freezing weather—was the chance to win a scale-model chocolate statue of Auguste Rodin’s La Danaïde made by chocolatier Jean-Charles Rochoux. Elizabeth correctly identified the statue from the intriguing image of its fesses (buttocks) that we posted on our Web site two weeks before the event. Congratulations, Elizabeth!

La Danaïde by Auguste Rodin

Chocolate Replica of La Danaïde by Auguste Rodin
Photograph by www.DiscoverParis.net

The giveaway was timed to promote the launch of our exciting new game called Guess the Fesses—it is an online quiz that tests your knowledge of sculptures that grace the Paris landscape. Designed to be fun, the correct answers are revealed immediately after each guess. At the end of the quiz, if you want to learn more about the sculptures, you can take our free virtual tour of Paris!

Guess the Fesses

Guess the Fesses
Mystery Fesses N° 1
Photograph by www.DiscoverParis.net

Now that your interest is piqued, click here to begin!

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