Passemant's astronomical clocks at Versailles.
I come back from Versailles where I was nightly visiting a temporary exhibition " Louis XV. Passions d'un roi. " and wanted to share with you my delight at admiring his astronomical clock, conceived by engineer Claude-Siméon Passmant and crafted by horolo...
I wasn't prepared for such an encounter tonight; the memory of me facing this clock in Versailles some fifteen years ago was not lost,
But had become somehow unfamiliar. That a clock - and such a clock - might underline how continuous yet changing my experiences have been over those years moves me almost inexpressibly.
Exquisite! I probably saw these as a young boy decades ago myself.
Amazing technology considering these clocks are 200 years old! I wonder if the Miki Eleta clocks will be similarly regarded 200 years from now! ...
Great memories indeed...
Despite all my visits to France, I've only been to Paris and Versailles. Never been outside of those areas. Sadly. Gotta rent a car and go for it someday!
From Paris one is only a few kilometers away from Normandy, or even from Amiens and its cathedral.
The diversity of landscapes and petites patries in a country with such a tradition of centralization is in itself a rather strange experience.