This ten-minute video shows you around the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, France, which is arguably the city’s most beautiful park. The gardens, located in the Latin Quarter of the city, belong to the French Senate, which meets in the Luxembourg Palace at the north end of the gardens. This video doesn’t really do the park justice; it’s much prettier in real life.
I’m not at all pleased with this video, which is rather incoherently edited, but it will have to do until I can produce a better one.
This video has been edited slightly for YouTube. An American high-school band is seen playing briefly in the video, and I’ve removed the audio from that sequence. There is currently a serious problem with copyright trolls on YouTube, who fraudulently claim copyright on just about any music used by anyone, even if there is no infringement. Rather than deal with the trolls, I just removed the music the band is playing (a Henry Mancini medley and some other stuff). The “director’s cut” that I’ve archived has the music, though (not available online).
The band seen in the video is the Stevens High School band, from Rapid City, South Dakota. Apparently they were giving a concert in the gardens on the day I was shooting, which is a well-established tradition for many visiting high-school bands from the U.S.