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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

A Home for Friendless French Girls


(Above: Orphan Girl at the Cemetery by Eugene Delacroix. What do you think she sees?)

What did I take away from this fascinating article on the fabulous blog Ephemeral New York? That the Jeanne D'Arc residence hotel in Manhattan is run by nuns and was once known as a "home for friendless French girls."

Oh the things my imagination might do with such a place! Sometimes that's all it takes--just a five word phrase.
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14 comments:

  1. Some Lost MelodyJanuary 18, 2011 at 11:04 AM

    She just saw Kiki Strike ride by on her vespa. Lol at first I though the title was A Friend for Homeless French Girls XDDD oops

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  2. mariJanuary 18, 2011 at 12:20 PM

    "home for friendless french girls". this is lovely and so interesting. unfortunately, the site doesn't seem to be working at the moment, but i'll bookmark it and try again later.

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  3. Toodles***January 18, 2011 at 4:06 PM

    Haha, I find that funny.

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  4. RachelJanuary 18, 2011 at 6:29 PM

    very interesting!

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 18, 2011 at 7:55 PM

    what's the URL for this blog!?!?!?!

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  6. Kirsten MillerJanuary 18, 2011 at 8:46 PM

    Kirstenmillerbooks.blogspot.com

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  7. ElizabethJanuary 19, 2011 at 12:45 AM

    I think she saw... a giant squirrel. o: Haha, but what a beautiful painting! She is a marvelous orphan.

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  8. LucyJanuary 19, 2011 at 2:38 PM

    Very cool painting I like photography more myself but I love looking at art lolaj XD

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  9. KittyJanuary 19, 2011 at 2:40 PM

    Very... Creative...!

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  10. SuJanuary 19, 2011 at 5:03 PM

    Very interesting!

    Visit my blog at thatawanigirl.com or blogger.com!

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  11. AnonymousJanuary 19, 2011 at 5:50 PM

    thanks kirsten!

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  12. AnonymousJanuary 19, 2011 at 6:40 PM

    She saw me and my science fiction club buddies practicing the shotput with old hardback copies of Kathrine Neville's The Eight. I should have tossed that bug-thumper as soon as I realized she got the chess game in chapter two wrong.

    Robert in San Diego
    (No, we don't really toss books we don't like -- we'll leave that to Dorothy Parker)

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  13. AnonymousJanuary 19, 2011 at 6:46 PM

    Or it could have been a vicious hummingbird fight -- although I'm not sure they have hummers in Europe. A few weeks back I saw and heard perhaps the most vicious hummingbird fight I'd ever witnessed. They were dodging past my head with inches to spare. They were dodging potted plants bare inches above the patio, then zooming up about thirty feet.

    When it was over, one of them was perched in a tree and busy cleaning feathers off his/her beak. Cute, graceful, nectar-sipping hummingbirds can transform into enraged Air to Air combatants in a flash. Sometimes it's funny, but when my parent's cat decides to hide and you can HEAR the sound of wingbeats change because they're beating each other, not just air, you have to wonder. Yeah, these birds really are descended from carnivorous dinosaurs.

    Robert in San Diego

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  14. Holy Lucy, Batman! January 24, 2011 at 9:59 PM

    Ooooh I got it she sees ZOMBIES

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