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Fountains, Springs and Lavoirs in Southern France - Bob Drake's overview and annotated photographs of historic local fountains and communal washing-places.
French National Monuments - The official site of the responsible government body provides images, history, news, and information on 200 historic structures. Choice of English and French versions, HTML or flash.
Versailles, France - Elegant bilingual official site offering history, guided tour via an interactive map, 360-degree panoramas, gallery of masterpieces and visitor information.
Architecture of France - Great Buildings Online has images and discussion of some of the most famous buildings in France.
Architecture of France - Guide to French architecture including Paris, Tours, Chenoceau, and Amboise from Archiseek. Photographs of significant buildings with short histories.
Châteaux and Castles in France - Collection of photographs taken by Vic Freund of Centralia College, US.
Medieval Architecture in France - Images of French cathedrals, churches and abbeys from Alison Stones, Images of Medieval Art and Architecture.
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George Architecture Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson Architecture I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Architecture To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Architecture The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham Laywers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm Architecture Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses Architecture When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words Architecture As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde Architecture "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer Architecture A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde Architecture "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack Architecture Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings Architecture Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa Architecture You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r Architecture I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with Architecture I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Architecture "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Architecture Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Architecture We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln Architecture I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. 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