Man, oh man. I’m just all over the place with this blog. A
few weeks ago I started on the subject of Gothic architecture and
promised to describe its history and development. Then the weather heated up
and that topic seemed way too heavy for the dog days of August. Instead I gave you a taste
of Bordeaux’s Classical architecture with the promise of more to come.
Since that last post we’ve been to Paris, and
now I’m going to change the subject yet again. But I promise, I will get back to
Gothic churches and Classical Bordeaux. In the meantime we spent a day trekking around
Auteuil, a well-heeled suburb in the southeastern part of the city that was a laboratory for the development of 20th
century architecture. Today I’d like to show you some spectacular Art Nouveau buildings and in the next post I’ll go back to the earlier topics. And I’ll try not to get sidetracked this time, although I have to admit that I'm really anxious to write about the fortified mills of the Entre-deux-Mers region.
