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Paris - the black and white of it - around the Pompidou Centre

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The reason for taking a weekend in Paris was to visit the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibition at the Pompidou Centre. Cartier-Bresson has always been a hero of mine and I really wanted to see this giant exhibition with 500 pictures in it. In fact it was too much and I was Bressonned out for the last third, although it was really something to see the pictures 'in the flesh'. He had such a full and interesting life and was so passionate about many things. I had not realised that he had been in a German prisoner of war camp for three years before he escaped and went back to the French Resistance. Fired up by this it seemed only appropriate to take pictures of Paris in monochrome and here are some of those taken around the Beaubourg. The Pompidou Centre is now well past its best and could seriously do with  a lick of paint. The last picture is of Alan standing outside the entrance to the Centre. If anyone wants to do this exhibition I would suggest buying a ticket in advance as you