Musical Accompaniment: Ça valait la peine by Coralie Clement.

I discovered a photographer who is absolutely wonderful: Constant Puyo! This picture is called Montmartre, 1906.  It’s very beautiful and French, isn’t it? Montmartre is the bohemian hilltop neighborhood, famous for the many, many artists, writers, actors, and dancers who resided there — Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, the magnificent Henri Matisse, Renoir, Ernest Hemingway, and so many more.

In the old novels, the servants always knew everything. Who do you suppose this young woman was looking at? Perhaps Vincent van Gogh or Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was strolling by, entirely unconscious of the fact that someone high above them was watching them with the greatest interest?

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