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Rue l'Equerre - Paris (France)

nobody@ipernity.com (Meteorry) — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:01:08 +0000

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PA_??? [? points]
This "space target" has landed in the Rue l'Equerre (not far from métro Pyrénées and Avenue Simon Bolivar).
Date of invasion: unknown (somewhere in 2006)

Parc Georges Brassens - Paris (France)

nobody@ipernity.com (Meteorry) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:32:03 +0000

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The entrance of Parc Georges Brassens in the 15th arrondissement is invaded and decorated with a small mosaïc art object by Jérôme Gulon. For close-ups: Jérôme Gulon and Space Invader PA_403

Space Invader:
PA_403 [10 points]
Date of invasion: 01/04/2001

Rue d'Alsace - Paris (France)

nobody@ipernity.com (Meteorry) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:43:44 +0000

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PA_352 [10 points]
When walking from Gare de l'Est to Gare du Nord you will find this one before climbing up the stairs of Rue d'Alsace.
Date of invasion: 29/10/2000

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Wibautstraat - Amsterdam (Netherlands)

nobody@ipernity.com (Meteorry) — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:28:16 +0000

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On the bridge over the Singel canal at the Wibautstraat you will find a space invader. Invader installed this invader in the Summer 2000 and it's still there.

Paris 9ème - Paris (France)

nobody@ipernity.com (Meteorry) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:48:06 +0000

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One of the most recent space invaders of Paris (early 2008) in the 9ème arrondissement of the city. Somewhere near Opéra. Feel free to ask for the exact location.

La Maison Rose - Paris (France)

nobody@ipernity.com (Meteorry) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:57:32 +0000

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Rue de l'Abreuvoir Sunday 17/02/2008 12h30
Enjoying the early Winter sun on the Butte de Montmartre on a terrace. Twelve degrees is enough.

Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad - Paris (France)

nobody@ipernity.com (Meteorry) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:57:52 +0000

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Man on Véiib'

La Géode - Paris (France)

nobody@ipernity.com (Meteorry) — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:19:26 +0000

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Parc de la Villette PARIS
La Géode is an Omnimax theatre in the Parc de la Villette at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris. It opened on May 6, 1985. The architect was Adrien Fainsilber.
The spere has a diameter of 36 meters and is made by 6433 mirror glass spherical triangles.
It is fitted with the only 12.1 sound system in the world (21 000 Watt), designed by Cabasse.

Parc de Monceau - Paris (France)

nobody@ipernity.com (Meteorry) — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:38:15 +0000

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Parc Monceau is a public park situated in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, at the junction of Boulevard de Courcelles, Rue de Prony and Rue Georges Berger. At the main entrance is a rotunda.

The park was established by Phillippe d'Orléans, Duke of Chartres, a cousin of the king. He started buying land on which to establish the garden in 1769, and employed Louis Carrogis Carmontelle to design the gardens. He was a close friend of the Prince of Wales, later George IV, and a lover of all things English. As a result, his aim was to create an informal English-style garden in the middle of Paris. By 1778, through successive purchases, the garden had grown to 12 hectares. It became known as the Folie de Chartres.

The park is unusual in France due to its "English" style: its informal layout, curved walkways and randomly-placed statues distinguish it from the more traditional, French-style garden. It also includes a collection of scaled-down architectural features — including an Egyptian pyramid, a Chinese fort, a Dutch windmill, and Corinthian pillars. A number of these are masonic references, reflecting the fact that Philippe d'Orléans was a leading freemason. The park includes statues of famous French figures including Guy de Maupassant, Frédéric Chopin, Charles Gounod, Ambroise Thomas and Edouard Pailleron.

During the French revolution of 1793 the Duke was executed by guillotine, and the garden was taken into public ownership. The Farmer's General Enclosure of Paris surrounded the park. At this time, the rotunda was built by Claude Nicolas Ledoux.

In 1797, it was the site of the first silk parachute jump, when André-Jacques Garnerin jumped from a Montgolfier hot air balloon, landing in the park where a large crowd was gathered.

The garden was purchased by the city of Paris in 1860. Half of the land was sold for the construction of new houses. Thanks to Baron Haussmann, the other half was preserved as green space and became a public park, inaugurated by Napoleon III on 13 August 1861.

It was the site of a massacre in 1871 following the formation of the Commune. The Versailles troops directed by Napoleon III eventually took back the city and slaughtered all remnants of the Communards during La Semaine sanglante ("The Bloody Week"). Parc Monceau, like several other public spaces, was the site of the killing of many of these proponents of the commune.

Claude Monet painted a series of three paintings of the park in the spring of 1876. He painted two further paintings of the park in 1878.

Today, the park has play areas for children, and remains very popular with local residents and their families. The site is also an active free Wi-Fi area, for computer users looking for Internet access. (Merci Wikipedia)

Rotonde de la Villette - Paris (France)

nobody@ipernity.com (Meteorry) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:57:08 +0000

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This strange circular building was one of the tollhouses built around the edge of Paris by Nicolas Ledoux in the 1780s. Most of these austere, daunting buildings, symbols to the populace of taxes and oppression, were promptly dismantled during the Revolution. Luckily, the rotunda survived as a relic of Ledoux's thrilling architecture. Like Mitterrand, Ledoux was fascinated by Masonic symbols such as spheres and pyramids. The rotunda is partly obscured by the aboveground métro as you approach from the south but its clean-cut outlines and honey-color stonework can be admired from the far side, where you can admire the Bassin de la Villette and the barges lining up at the lock.

Bastille - Paris (France)

nobody@ipernity.com (Meteorry) — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:34:58 +0000

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No Big Macs of Royal Cheese* but just an entrance of métro station Bastille (line 1-5-8).

*)Royal Cheese is the French word for Quarter Pounder

Wibautstraat - Amsterdam (Netherlands)

nobody@ipernity.com (Meteorry) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:21:34 +0000

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AI_044 space invader by Dutch artist AmsterInvader.
Located near a favorite gift store with loads of interior and design gadgets.
Date of invasion: 18/07/2006

Place Charles de Gaulle - Paris (France)

nobody@ipernity.com (Meteorry) — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:23:30 +0000

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Trees without leaves are not that bad at all.

Christmas Tram - Diemen (Netherlands)

nobody@ipernity.com (Meteorry) — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:09:08 +0000

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In 2007 the public transport company of Amsterdam wishes the city a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year by this special tram set. Here on tramline 9 at the terminus of Diemen Sniep before returning it's 8,5 kilometers journey to Amsterdam Centraal Station.

Route National N44 Laon - Saint-Quentin (France)

nobody@ipernity.com (Meteorry) — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:18:55 +0000

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Driving through the Picardi North between Laon and Saint-Quentin.

Pont de Sully - Paris (France)

nobody@ipernity.com (Meteorry) — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:09:20 +0000

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PA_086 [10 points]
A space invader on the Pont de Sully on Île Saint-Louis running towards Rive Droite.
Date of invasion: 17/08/2007

Fiac! Jardin des Tuileries - Paris (France)

nobody@ipernity.com (Meteorry) — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:04:22 +0000

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CLAUDE LEVEQUE
Mon repas aux Tuileries (2007)

Middenweg - Amsterdam (Netherlands)

nobody@ipernity.com (Meteorry) — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:43:32 +0000

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Sunday 14/10/2007

Gare du Nord - Paris (France)

nobody@ipernity.com (Meteorry) — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:12:45 +0000

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A view from my hotel room in the Mercure Terminus Nord. The east side of Gare du Nord.

Space Invader @ République

nobody@ipernity.com (Meteorry) — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:58:15 +0000

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One of the many space invaders I found in Paris, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Marseille and some other places. More space invaders on this site