Trocadero
Written by Raphaëlle,on the 18/07/2011
I wake up one July morning opposite the Eiffel Tower. I can make out its silhouette through the translucent gauze curtains of my bedroom.
I imagine it gleaming in the incandescent sunlight...
Moscow 1 - Swan Lake I
Written by Raphaëlle,on the Raphaelle
Home again after the performance. Exhausted but thrilled. He carries me in his arms, and plumps me down gingerly among the silk cushions on the sofa in the small drawing-room.
I love the sophisticated gilt-bronze details of the lacquered etc ...
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