We Have a Winner!!

Congratulations to Laurenmcw, who won our second photo challenge! She correctly identified that the photos from two previous posts (here and here) were taken at the Parc de Bercy, just across the river from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Two weeks ago, on a walk with our new friends Rachel and Adam, we discovered these random statues - and the artists who were slapping new coats of paint on them. We couldn't decide if they were "for real" or not. Who sculpts stereotypes of people from different cultures, and in bronze no less? Of course, for some of them the stereotypes are less obvious (maybe the next photo challenge is figuring out what culture each statue is supposed to represent):

Adam tries to guess the statue's native culture

Turns out they're just façades. Just like the message they seek to impart to society?

View of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France from the Parc de Bercy, over the Passarelle Simone de Beauvoir

As her prize for winning the photo challenge, Laurenmcw should look for something small, tasty, and typically Parisian to arrive in the mail within the next few weeks. Congrats!