Place Vendôme

But in the meantime you've got people from the northern and northeastern quarters of Paris, the poor, living on the edge of Paris, who come down into the fancy quarters for the very first time and are not working as someone's maid.

and the painter Gustave Courbet, the naturalist painter from near Besançon, thus burial at Ornans, he says, why don't we as a symbol get rid of this horrible statue of Napoleon that's standing on the Vendôme column in the Place Vendôme? The Place Vendôme is near Palais Royal, very fancy.

It's known to Americans who have visited there, many, but others because that's the Ritz Hotel where, what's her name, Princess Diana left ten years ago now, and never made it, unfortunately for her, out of the Pont d'Alma, the tunnel.

He says, let's tear the whole damn thing down.

Just like it wasn't good enough just to fix up the existing structure.

He built a hotel that's a replica of the hotel on the Place Vendome in Paris.

So on top of this mountain outside of one of the poorest communities in western Pennsylvania, there's this basically giant facsimile of a piece of Parisian architecture.

And I think about that when I think about Trump, like he's the same guy, just on a bigger scale.

Was your son here last night?

No, he's staying with his wife and children at a hotel in the Place Vendôme, where they are in the habit of residing when they come to Paris.

You mean to say that since his marriage he has never stayed in this house?

Well, in the first place, he very rarely comes to Paris, and never for long, because he hates society life.

Und in der Zeit kam ja dann irgendwann auch die Fotografie auf und, äh, wurde massenwirksam und dann hat er irgendwann gemerkt, die Fotografie kann's noch viel besser, ähm, und hat dann Visitenkarten, Fotovisitenkarten herstellen lassen, die man auch in der Ausstellung sehen kann.

Und letztendlich kann man sagen, ist, äh, dieses, äh, Selbstmarketing ihm vielleicht auch 'n bisschen zum Verhängnis geworden, denn, ähm, er wurde ja später, äh, verhaftet und verurteilt, äh, wegen seiner Beteiligung an der Pariser Kommune, äh, und an dem Sturz der, der Säule auf dem Place Vendôme.

Und da soll es wohl Fotos gegeben haben von diesem Sturz und, äh, man meinte, ihn wiederzuerkennen auf diesen Fotos, weil eben auch so viele Fotos von ihm im Umlauf waren.

Also ist ihm sein eigener-