Today's doorway is the Hôtel des Postes, built in 1752 at the expense of king Louis the 15th. It isn't the post office though! I got kind of lucky with three blue cars in front of the blue door!Today, Marilyn is on Artsy Versailles.
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Construit en 1752 aux frais de Louis XV. Ce n'est toutefois plus la poste ! J'ai eu du bol avec trois voitures bleues devant le portail bleu !
Aujourd'hui, Marilyn est sur Artsy Versailles.
Wonderful blue doorway. Doors are so intriguing, especially old ones.
ReplyDeleteI just love that blue -- it just makes the building! The car ain't half bad either.
ReplyDelete1752? It looks like it was built yesterday. Utterly amazing. Gorgeous door, too. Blue on blue with blue cars. A blue Wednesday!
ReplyDeleteHope you're not blue.
By Versailles' standards, this is probably a farily straightforward door, but by the standards of the rest of the world, it is glorious!
ReplyDeleteYou guys have the coolest doors! It's hard to imagine it lasted this long.
ReplyDeleteVery nice and I agree with Doug about old doors. Happy Wednesday!
ReplyDeleteI noticed that your banner is in blue also, so what a trilogy, banner, door, and cars! Good one! I like this blue door...very royal!
ReplyDeleteIsn't blue supposed to be for royalty or am I just thinking of "royal blue"? Hmmm, that's probably where the term "royal blue" came from. Forgive my meanderings, a lovely picture.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, green and gray vehicles would never do here. It's all so harmonic. What is the building used for now?
ReplyDeletepour faire les vitres sur la porte, cela ne doit pas etre facile ;))
ReplyDeleteUn hôtel 4 étoiles. Traditionnellement, au dessus des portes cochères, à l'entresol, se trouvait le logement du concierge. Ce devait être lui qui lavait les vitres.
ReplyDeleteI love blue doors! I discovered a lot of them in Paris the last time I was there. Unfortunately in Vienna most doors are brown.
ReplyDeletePour paraphraser encrico Macias:"les gens de Versailles ont dans leurs rues le bleu qu'ils n'ont pas chez eux.." C'est pour lutter contre la grisaille du ciel, tout ce bleu?!
ReplyDeleteAnother epidemic of blue, I envy you for these colors...
ReplyDeleteThe blue cars are a bit of serendipity! I always admire your use of color.
ReplyDeleteSharon
Je suis passée tout à l'heure devant l'ancien relais de poste du XVIIIème à Génicourt, il s'appelle "la maison blanche", n'a pas une si haute porte cochère bleue et est beaucoup plus rustique que celui-ci....
ReplyDeleteA very grandiose door. That is wonderful that you got three blue cars in the picture too - no colour clashes:)
ReplyDeleteFor sure the cars are an excellent chance catch! Why the "do not enter" sign on the left door? Are people to enter on the right? Or am I misinterpreting the sign?
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