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I'm still enthralled with greys today after I learned that Paris was under water exactly 100 years ago at Vivianne of Liquid French's blog yesterday. This photo is from Historic Photos of Paris.
Granted it can't have been much fun crossing the street on these wooden slats but aren't the images evocative...
And poetic?
These post cards are from a stunning collection on Flickr.
Is it any wonder the Impressionists saw things differently then we do?
It was different back then...

An image from an exhibit in Paris on the flood up january 8- March 28 Paris inondé 1910 - Galerie des bibliothèques

This sooty drawing of Georges Seurat...

And this rainy painting of Gustave Caillebotte, both seem reminiscent of the period, yet neither artist lived to see Paris under water in January, 1910.

Another way to...

Cross the boulevard again from Postaletrice's collection...

The whole fascinating story - history, anacdotes, pictures - is told in Jeffrey Jackson's book, Paris Under Water:How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910. You can read a few pages at Amazon...

I don't suppose they had any grey macarons back then, but how a pro pos...

Regarde this hand-cranked film from 1910...positively dreamy non? Best viewed full-screen.

Bonjour La crue de la Seine janvier 1910!