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Crédit National c. 1919 – Paris, FR – July 2010
Hue Adjusted in Photoshop for better clarity – CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
45 Rue St. Dominique © Frank H. Jump
Credit National – Pour faciliter la reparation des dommages causes par la guerre.
National Credit – To facilitate the repair of damage caused by the war.
The national credit was a French bank created by special law on October 10, 1919 at the nexus of the private sphere and the sphere of influence of the French State involved in the payment of war reparations and financing of small and medium enterprises. It has always been in the private sector and its employees have never had the status of civil servants, despite employment contracts and organization benefitting the public. – Wikipedia (FR)
The BFCE (French Foreign Trade Bank) founded Natixis in the spirit of privatization with a merger in 2006 of Natexis and Ixis. Apparently I caught this sign after the Natixis sign was taken down. May 2008 © Google Maps
Featured Fade – FIAT – Avenue de Choisy – 13º Arrondissement – Paris, FR – Kovel-Son
© Kovel-Son
- 13º Arrondissement of Paris – Wikipedia
- FIAT, an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino – Wikipedia
Unité, Indivisibilité de La Républic — Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité Ou La Morte — le quatorze juillet — Happy Bastille Day – Vive la France – Paris, France
34 Rue de Seine – 6éme arrondissement de Paris – © Frank H. Jump
34 Rue de Seine – 6éme arrondissement de Paris – © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Wikipedia – CLICK FOR LINK
Unity, Indivisibility of the Republic – Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or Death – Life Magazine – Google Images
Internet resources:
- Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité – Wikipedia
- Google Images – Life Magazine – Illustration of the French Revolutionary
- Guidelines for American Tourists
- Bastille Day – le quatorze juillet -Wikipedia
Black Peter in Post-Colonial Flanders & France – Zwarte Piet – Brussels & Antwerpen, Belgium
Shop window in Brussels © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Bar on Grote Markt in Brussels © Frank H. Jump
Could not help being reminded of lynching © Frank H. Jump
Restaurant sign in Antwerpen © Frank H. Jump
Gallery window in Brussels © Frank H. Jump
For the West, the Black man is a savage.
Along the Seine across Notre Dame (Rive Gauche) at an art kiosk © Frank H. Jump
Josephine Baker – Le Tumulte Noir – CLICK
Other Internet resources:
- Zwarte Piet – Wikipedia
- Zwarte Piet Blog – links and references about the Zwarte Piet tradition
- Post-Colonial Theory (PDF)- Childs, Peter. Williams, Patrick. An Introduction to Post–colonial. Theory … unthinkingly conceded that the black man is the colour of evil.
