The Big Blank

The age old look

The french capital has the look of an old royal city. The rooftops are all similar looking under some regulation. The windows are regulated to be wider than the height. These are old rules and may not be followed now but it sure gave Paris a different look.

Museums are everywhere. From Louvre owning Mona Lisa to artillery and aeroplane museum. Paris has museum for everything. About Louvre, one of my freind got too excited and started narrating the plot of Da Vinchi Code which happens inside Louvre. It was good. Some paintings like "Coronation of Napolean" were amazing. But I got bored soon looking at them as it was difficult to make out what was so great about them.

We went to this place this weekend called fontaine bleau. It was the place where napolean and all other emperors stayed for a while. Though it had the "darbar", the throne and royal beds but they were no where as majestic as Indian darbars. The Napolean's throne was smaller than our marriage chairs in which the newly wed couples sit. The darbar was held in a measely 30 by 30 feet room. Things were impressive but not majestic. In these things India has a very rich cultural history which we sadly are not preserving. Even the Taj Mahal was in danger recently, leave aside lesser monuments like the Jai baan of the "Churu ka gola" fame in Jaipur.

posted by Pankaj Jain @ 5:29 AM