franklin in paris

 

“Our new Constitution is now established,

everything seems to promise it will be durable;

but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.”

 

~ Ben Franklin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the plaque commemorating the signing of the final Treaty of Paris, on September 3rd, 1783 on the wall of the Hotel d’York taken in Paris in November 2007.

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LEFT TO DIE AND DANGLE

 

“The streets sing, the stones talk.

The houses drip history, glory, romance.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Rue Rataud in Paris in May 2012.

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THEM THAT’S GOT SHALL HAVE

 

“Behind every great fortune is a crime.”

 

~ Honore de Balzac ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.

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REVOLUTION NOW!

 

“How can I rise if you don’t fall?”

 

~ Robert Wyatt ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in the late 1980’s.

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NAKED AND BLINDFOLDED

 

“Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants;

enlightenment the salvation of the free.”

 

~ Bill Richardson ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

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SPRAY IT AGAIN, SAM

 

“The strength and power of despotism
consists wholly in the fear of resistance.”

 

~ Thomas Paine ~

 

Original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2017.

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