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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

But I’d also like to think that every individual’s impact is far greater than that - call it the butterfly effect - but I do always visit Pere Lachaise and visit Apollonaires grave: he invented a term I use every day: surreal!

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When I first visited France it was Poitiers (figure that out! 😹) and in the cathedral there were all these panels reading “merci” from WW1. Even in Pere Lachaise so many monuments are so weathered by nature (not human memory) that this must just be the way things are.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A minor actress in the 1930s and a theater director in the 1950s in Paris, she died in relative obscurity. But last night, after figuring out who she was, I realized I probably was the only person on earth today remembering Germaine. She must have lived such an extraordinary life!

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Three years ago I found these pictures in a pile of trash on a corner in the 19th eme of Paris. Turns out this is actress Germaine Rodger (1910-1975). I had forgotten I placed them in a book and they fell out last night. Made me think about memory and remembrance.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The friends I met (gave a cat face to a friend’s kid due to privacy issues but how incredibly lucky I am to have friends like this around the world?)

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Montmartre at dusk is the most beautiful thing you can experience on earth.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It was amazing to be able to experience this.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I found a spot in Venice where I was just so lucky to be there.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I was so lucky to have had the chance to get to know Paris.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yes the canicules were terrible this year. The hottest temperature ever recorded in Paris and it just will get worse. I did my best by going to pools (Pallieron the 19th, the great pool at Butte aux Callies-and even the Seine, Canal Saint Martin, and other places!)

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My mother with Gloria Steinem…

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It was amazing. One of the top ten art experiences of my life. Close behind on the third floor of the bourse was Bill Viola (who I once had dinner with at the university of Chicago but who passed last year) piece Fire woman. Breathtaking.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

View from the Ligne 6 line from Dupleix to Bir Hakeim in Paris. Feels very cinematic with this Max Richter music.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Climbed a mountain or at least a very big hill in the Puy du Dôme region in France near Clermont Ferrand with my colleague Cederic Bouquet.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I was on a train from Clermont Ferrand to Paris during the eclipse.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne France

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Sunrise in Montmartre in Paris. I will always for the rest of my life be amazed and astounded that a friend offered me this opportunity to experience all of this.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Morning in Montmartre in Paris.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Here are some still images from the Fujiko Nakaya piece at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris…

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Went yesterday to the Bourse de Commerce in Paris to see Fujiko Nakaya’s piece “Cloud 07156” in which the rotunda filled with clouds. It was amazing. Here is a timelapse…it was probably the best work of modern art I’ve experienced.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The pool at Butte Aux Cailles in Paris. They should be winning Olympic records going at these speeds!

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I didn’t add sound to this video: there was a busker playing the violin on the car that I was on! Still has to be the best view from any train on earth.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This is mundane but Got my hair cut by a guy @chrisinparis.bsky.social suggested who is Arabic, doesn’t speak a word of English but has a cool shop with Budgerigar birds inside. Really nice guy who gives a great haircut in case you’re in need of one in Paris 9th / 18th…

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I love it but I love even more remote parts of Paris: the coulee vert, the Rue de la Butte-aux-Cailles, these places are amazing!

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Truly is the best station on earth. You have the 2 and the 4…where else do you need to go? 😹

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Was here after having pho in Belleville. What a beautiful view of Paris! But is there any not beautiful view of Paris? 😹

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Spent the afternoon with a former student Debrille who was in Paris for a day and is now a professor at the University of Washington! Gave a tour of Montmartre. Was great to reminisce and talk. She is working on amazing things. We also happened to have been born in the same hospital years apart!

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Up the street some Spanish fans were celebrating in Paris…

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Interesting - I was just walking by that very place in Montmartre. It’s also where Renoir made his famous painting!

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Hung out at the Tuileries for a while watching the sun set over the Olympic torch and contemplating life. What an amazing city - you can see here Concord (where Louis XVI met his end) and the Arc de Triomphe in the distance.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Went swimming in the Seine today and it went swimmingly well due to the high quality filters they use in the water to keep it clean.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Okay since folks will ask the woman in the picture we had a moment when the subway train blew her skirt up and she looked back and said she was so embarrassed and I said “truly it’s all good I would have made the same mistake!” So be careful in Paris walking over those grates!

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I’ve had the kind of few days that I never expected I’d have in a lifetime due to my friend @chrisinparis.bsky.social. I’m taking the day to sweep a terrace, feed cats, water plants, but I hope everyone once in their life gets a chance to have the same kind of cool days. (Funny about photo 2! 😹)

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Spoke with a charming American woman about why counterfeit is so problematic and it truly is going back to antiquity. Here is one early example of wine vassals having to have different tops due to counterfeit 3000 years ago!

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Louis Vuitton Foundation (a Paris museum of modern art the building was designed by Frank Gehry)

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

You need a mayor who will do more of this! 😻

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

When I do go out I usually try inexpensive places like this Algerian place near Ménilmontant (Ligne 2) which cost less than 10 euros…or this other Moroccan place in Barbés that cost like 5 euros. I’m not going to “Guy Savoy” on my professor income! 😹 You can find cheap eats in Paris!

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I don’t often eat out in Paris for a few reasons - I’m usually alone 😿, and I enjoy going to markets 😻(a lesson from @chrisinparis.bsky.social)But I met friends who wanted to try Bullion Racine (Bullion restaurants are notoriously inexpensive) - look at the gorgeous decor and food (my bill was $20)

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The French not giving up hope this Bastille day.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Bastile day fireworks from a roof near the Eiffel Tower.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

If you’re in Paris 18 (Montmartre) stop by this record store on Rue Pierre Picard - live music and live cats!

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

One of the amazing things about being with my friends in Roquebrune was the food - we never went to a restaurant as it is so much better to go to the market see what is good and go from there. I will incorporate this lesson in future classes on culture and food…

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

You get the “good” figs once I depart! 😹 Honestly I will remember the figs and Gorgonzola for the rest of my life! I’ll be in the old folks’ home telling anyone who will listen “I once was in Roquebrune - in France! - and had these figs…”

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We must be talking about a different cat named Blini! 😹

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Timelapse of sunrise over Bay of Roquebrune, French Riviera.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Here is a close up version of it.

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