Climbing and order, the Eiffel Tower the other day, it was an appropriate moment to consider what to say a sharp increase of the nations famous things about the country and the people living there.
One thing on the Eiffel Tower but did say: we are different, and proud.
The high concept is not anchored not like the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, built in 1791 as a symbol of peace, and much later reinvented the symbol of the reunification of Germany, the home of kings, such as Buckingham Palace in London or asylum the art world and the PRADO in Madrid or the Palais du Louvre in Paris below. It Dhiaga for the homage, as the Pantheon in Rome or the Mosque of Sultan Ahmet Istanbul.
It does not tell the time, as London's Big Ben, and provides no notice of entry as the statue of Liberty (with a smaller version of the framework of moderate increases over the River Seine near the internal and designed by the same person - Gustave Eiffel.)
Completed in 1889, up more than 300 meters and 1000 meters, depending on how you measure it, is exclusively the Eiffel Tower, free from the world calls the "huddled MASSES longing to breathe free."
It is, in other words, no other function than as symbols. But symbol of what? As to Roland Barthes, the French scholar of signs and symbols, it, the tower "monument entirely useless."
"This is pure - almost empty - because it is the inevitable character means everything," he wrote in a famous essay published in 1957.
Well, perhaps.
Obviously there is no longer so closely linked with building his residence as the Eiffel Tower and Paris - statement on the achievement of excellence, ensuring permanent friends, in memory of the person sought in advance before computer modeling and high-lift cranes, where each of the 18,000 pieces of individual ingredients created to connect with their neighbor, and teams of workers hammered at 2.5 million rivets shown together hold 10,000 tons of iron.
Not everyone respects this performance by Gustave Eiffel built the height of the 19th century technology, Isambard Kingdom Brunel also of Great Britain and others.
The writer Guy de Maupassant, for example, reportedly each day ate tower (one day is expensive enough experience or distasteful), because the only place in Paris, then to raise trellis-work on the tower not sight Tues.
Indeed, Paris was not very well managed. The French Revolution occurred before the century building, the French poets Charles Baudelaire and Gerard de Nerval in which to the outpourings of their tortured souls in scope to Paris with no needle punctured the tower spire.
Paris Convention 120 is marking the completion of the tower in time for the World Exhibition in 1889, transferred into a great light show in the facade side sparkly more information, hours of night flash eruptions.
But if the party is intended as a strengthening of the French elegance and creativity, on the ground floor, the French people are invited to debate about their different, it seems that much in common with the image projected by the tower.
Just weeks ago, beginning with Eric Besson, French Minister of national identity, a study in 2010 followed on how the French define their French business.
Mr. Besson is also the Minister responsible for immigration, critics want to suggest that its research, to close just before important regional elections next year, will use the deepest feelings of nationalism resonated the same as in the President However Nicolas Sarkozy's political campaign.
As elsewhere in Europe, the French national identity of the postcolonial fusion struggling to overcome the demographic changes wrought by the twelve, and perhaps still, as outsiders, marked "other" by the skin color or religion but as such own demanding inclusion in their adoptive nations.
One thing on the Eiffel Tower but did say: we are different, and proud.
The high concept is not anchored not like the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, built in 1791 as a symbol of peace, and much later reinvented the symbol of the reunification of Germany, the home of kings, such as Buckingham Palace in London or asylum the art world and the PRADO in Madrid or the Palais du Louvre in Paris below. It Dhiaga for the homage, as the Pantheon in Rome or the Mosque of Sultan Ahmet Istanbul.
It does not tell the time, as London's Big Ben, and provides no notice of entry as the statue of Liberty (with a smaller version of the framework of moderate increases over the River Seine near the internal and designed by the same person - Gustave Eiffel.)Completed in 1889, up more than 300 meters and 1000 meters, depending on how you measure it, is exclusively the Eiffel Tower, free from the world calls the "huddled MASSES longing to breathe free."
It is, in other words, no other function than as symbols. But symbol of what? As to Roland Barthes, the French scholar of signs and symbols, it, the tower "monument entirely useless."
"This is pure - almost empty - because it is the inevitable character means everything," he wrote in a famous essay published in 1957.
Well, perhaps.
Obviously there is no longer so closely linked with building his residence as the Eiffel Tower and Paris - statement on the achievement of excellence, ensuring permanent friends, in memory of the person sought in advance before computer modeling and high-lift cranes, where each of the 18,000 pieces of individual ingredients created to connect with their neighbor, and teams of workers hammered at 2.5 million rivets shown together hold 10,000 tons of iron.
Not everyone respects this performance by Gustave Eiffel built the height of the 19th century technology, Isambard Kingdom Brunel also of Great Britain and others.
The writer Guy de Maupassant, for example, reportedly each day ate tower (one day is expensive enough experience or distasteful), because the only place in Paris, then to raise trellis-work on the tower not sight Tues.
Indeed, Paris was not very well managed. The French Revolution occurred before the century building, the French poets Charles Baudelaire and Gerard de Nerval in which to the outpourings of their tortured souls in scope to Paris with no needle punctured the tower spire.
Paris Convention 120 is marking the completion of the tower in time for the World Exhibition in 1889, transferred into a great light show in the facade side sparkly more information, hours of night flash eruptions.
But if the party is intended as a strengthening of the French elegance and creativity, on the ground floor, the French people are invited to debate about their different, it seems that much in common with the image projected by the tower.
Just weeks ago, beginning with Eric Besson, French Minister of national identity, a study in 2010 followed on how the French define their French business.
Mr. Besson is also the Minister responsible for immigration, critics want to suggest that its research, to close just before important regional elections next year, will use the deepest feelings of nationalism resonated the same as in the President However Nicolas Sarkozy's political campaign.
As elsewhere in Europe, the French national identity of the postcolonial fusion struggling to overcome the demographic changes wrought by the twelve, and perhaps still, as outsiders, marked "other" by the skin color or religion but as such own demanding inclusion in their adoptive nations.
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