Les Enfants du Monde

Les Enfants du Monde (Children of the World) is a really neat group of twenty-one bronze statues I discovered over by the Parc de Bercy. When you first get a glimpse of the statues, you can quickly see that they're all meant to represent different nationalities and cultures. And when you really take the time to stare at these things for a while, a few other interesting details start to become apparent. It seems that a big motif of this project involved using textures of the city streets in these different countries to make up statues of the people who live there! How neat! Read more ►

News Flash! France To Permit Women To Wear Pants

"A long-standing law in Paris, France that forbids women to wear trousers, might soon be repealed, the Telegraph UK reports. Ten French ministers submitted a bill to parliament to get rid of the outdated law, which was put into place in 1799. The law was amended several times: once in 1892 to allow women to sport trousers while riding horses and again in 1909 to permit the ladies to wear pants while on bicycles..." (Link)