{"id":1578,"date":"2012-10-22T15:38:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T07:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2012-10-22T15:57:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T07:57:54","slug":"kyle-megan-at-the-pont-des-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/?p=1578","title":{"rendered":"Kyle & Megan at the Pont des Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is Pont des Arts … the foot bridge\u00a0across the Seine from the Louvre where of late lovers place their love locks and then throw the key in the river. \u00a0If we had a real<\/strong>\u00a0 pedestrian bridge in Perth, Kyle and Megan wouldn’t have had to travel so far …<\/p>\n

Ken was here as well and I include his insights below: we certainly had similar feelings as we stood on the Pont – though we couldn’t help thinking Ken needed a few months in Ladakh to really get his head around civilisation.<\/p>\n

“I am standing on the Pont des Arts in Paris. On the one side of the Seine is the harmonious, reasonable facade of the Institute of France, built as a college in about 1670. On the other bank is the Louvre, built continuously from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century: classical architecture at its most splendid and assured. Just visible upstream is the Cathedral of Notre Dame –not perhaps the most lovable of cathedrals, but the most rigorously intellectual fa\u00e7ade in the whole of Gothic art. […]<\/p>\n

What is civilisation? I do not know. I can’t define it in abstract terms –yet. But I think I can recognise it when I see it: and I am looking at it now.” \u00a0Sir Kenneth Clark, Civilization<\/em>, 1969<\/p>\n<\/div>