Following on the French theme today I'm posting a photo closer to my old home. Pau was the hometown of the French king Henri IV, apparently one of the best loved kings of the country. As befits a king, the Pau castle is much more glamorous and in much better condition than most other castles in the area, of which there are quite a few.
I could have posted a couple of hundred photos of paintings and sculptures of Henri quatrieme, but even though many of the paintings were quite exquisitely done, their reproduction wouldn't have shown much creativity regarding photography.
So I decided to post a photo of a curtain tassel from the castle. I guess i became a bit obsessed with tassels in France, as there was such an abundance of them, and they were often such high quality. They bring a considerable amount of elegance to curtains, especially if the curtain are of equal quality. We ended up buying tassels for our own curtains to our otherwise quite drab rental apartment, with very little in the form of refinement.
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