Saturday 17 October 2015

Impasse des Gendarmes

Impasse des Gendarmes Versailles
When you walk out of Our Lady of the Armies chapel, this is what you see, the narrow Gendarmes cul-de-sac!

La vue depuis Notre-Dame des Armées !
Impasse des Gendarmes Versailles
Impasse des Gendarmes Versailles
Impasse des Gendarmes Versailles
All the inside shutters have this hole in them. Your guess is as good as VDP's...

VDP ne sait pas ce que sont ces ouvertures dans les volets intérieurs. Quelqu'un saurait lui dire ?

16 comments:

  1. Love the light here and the texture f this building.

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  2. The 'half turret ' is great presumably it houses a spiral staircase, it's a real gem that you found. Beautiful light as well, perhaps the hole in the shutters is for keeping an eye on the citizens:)

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  3. I love that half turret, Ciel!

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  4. I've got to say this is one interesting building! Perhaps the holes are a quick way for the church mice to get outside?

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  5. Easy. The residents are peeping Toms.

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  6. It's a trap. If you walk down this alley the gendarmes will block off the open end and you will never be seen again.

    Or maybe that would happen only if Ms. La Pen became president.

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  7. The building and the hole in each shutter leaves lots to the imagination, which I like!! It's so interesting; good use of light and dark, too.

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  8. I do like how the shadows and color are falling.

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  9. The half turret really grabs my attention.

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  10. Someone is watching us...

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  11. I'm glad the others above came up with the name "turret" for that bulging part. It really stands out for me too but, I didn't know what to call it.

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  12. Maybe Jack's right Ciel, but I'll be more discrete and say 'observation' holes 😊😀

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  13. I've never seen a partial turret quite like that before! Hmmm, I've lso never seen holes in shutters like that before.

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  14. It's a mystery, as someone once sang many years ago!

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Thank you for visiting and leaving a thought! Sorry about the moderation, a bit tired of spam at the moment!

Merci de votre visite très appréciée et de laisser une pensée ! Désolée de devoir modérer vos commentaires, VDP en a un peu marre des spammeurs en ce moment !