Le Grand Foyer

Upon the inauguration of the Palais Garnier on the 15th of January, 1875, Paris set it eyes on the most exquisite piece of architecture in all of the world. The Palais Garnier was built on the orders of Napoleon the third as a part of the great Parisian Reconstruction Project undertaken by Baron Haussman. It's monumental form stands to tell of its magnificent detail and precision, not nearly missing any insignificant thing. However, it's outside was nothing than a mere cover for what was inside. A crystal husk as it were, to the grand beauty within; Le Grand Foyer. So grand as to be compared with the Versailles corridors; its opulent neo-baroque splendour displays all that man can achieve with his hands.

Le Grand Foyer du Palais Garnier exhibits an array of chandeliers, sculpted busts of Mozart and Beethoven with a mosaic running across the full length of the ceiling.

Nothing can quite compare.

When trying to decide what to say in the very first blog, one does not just start at the beginning. One must start on the inside and work its way out to find where you had began in the first place. The Grand Foyer of the Palais Garnier was not the first part built, but it was the first thing the Parisians saw when entering for the first time.

I wish to do the same; to create a grand foyer of sorts for you. Look at the detail; the ins; the outs and, with all that aside, look deeper to see where this journey first began. The foundation of all that will come of this. Much of what I write I do so for your aesthetic pleasure of reading, but also for philosophies and debate; rich argument and communion. Let the eyes wander and the heart wonder.

This is a beginning. A grand foyer. This is where thought begins. But most importantly this is for his highest.

-JP