{"id":65,"date":"2006-12-12T05:34:42","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T12:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2006\/12\/12\/paris-panorama\/"},"modified":"2007-04-25T12:33:48","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T19:33:48","slug":"paris-panorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2006\/12\/12\/paris-panorama\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris panorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was Paris recently for work but snuck away for a couple of wonderful meals (at Au Bon Accueil and La Maison du Jardin, both highly recommended), drinks at the top of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centrepompidou.fr\/Pompidou\/Accueil.nsf\/tunnel?OpenForm\">Pompidou Center<\/a>, and a quick visit to the newly restored <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museeguimet.fr\/\">Musee Guimet<\/a>.  The Guimet is stunning, for the breadth and quality of its collections and the beauty of the space, if not so much for its interpretative materials.  I&#8217;ve never spent much time in Paris and I don&#8217;t think of it as one of &#8216;my cities&#8217; like I think of New York or Bangkok, but it&#8217;s obviously a great, gorgeous city and I wish I had the time &#8212; and the money &#8212; to make it mine.  If you don&#8217;t believe me, or especially if you do, check out this panorama of <a href=\"http:\/\/framboise78.free.fr\/Paris.htm\">Paris at night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the Indology nerds: there are a set of clay tablets at the Guimet, I think on the second floor, which have as their provenance a Buddhist monastery in Kashmir.  The panels have raised images on them which are clearly not Buddhist.  I suspect they&#8217;re Ajivika and I seem to remember an article, which of course I can&#8217;t track down now, describing how the Buddhists reused the materials from an Ajivika complex as the flooring in their monastery, as an insult.  But I can&#8217;t pinpoint the source and it&#8217;s driving me nuts.<\/p>\n<p>[Previously, a <a title=\"useful Paris map from Wallpaper*\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2005\/04\/28\/paris-map-from-wallpaper\/\">useful Paris map<\/a> from Wallpaper*.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was Paris recently for work but snuck away for a couple of wonderful meals (at Au Bon Accueil and La Maison du Jardin, both highly recommended), drinks at the top of the Pompidou Center, and a quick visit to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2006\/12\/12\/paris-panorama\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1421,36,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-asia","category-food","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-13","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}