Just off the Champs-Élysées, two blocks from the Arc de Triomphe, is rue Galilée, (named after Galileo, the Italian astronomer). On the corner is a building, number 64, with these ladies in stone above each window. Each one seems to be from a different country, but I do not know their stories, so I am free to assign them to wherever I please. (If anyone knows more about these ladies, please email me & share their story.)
Here's what they look like from the street - 
Pays Du Nord
This lady is from a Nordic or Scandinavian country, perhaps Sweden.
Chapeau
This lady in a hat seems to come from Eastern Europe, maybe Hungary or Romania or Bulgaria.
Tournesols
This lady comes from the sunny, sunflowery Mediterranean coast, quite likely Provence.
Pommes de Pin
This lady is from someplace with pine forests and traditional costumes, maybe Germany or Italy or even Switzerland.
Indiens d'Amerique
With her ears of corn, feathers and raven-black hair she is definitely American Indian (or at least a mid-19th century French idea of one).
Extreme-Orient
This lady is from the Far East (again, a mid-19th century French idea of the Orient).
These are on a HSBC Bank around the corner at 109 Champs Eleseé
Ophelia of the Deep
Ophelia sleeping, not in a river, but in the deep.
Dionysus
He's no lady, but he's on the same building - Dionysus to the Greeks, Baccus to the Romans, the god of wine, debauchery and other worthwhile pursuits
(Neither of the facades these carvings were part of in 2012 is visible now - 2023. The building is now owned by Dior, and covered in a bland, grey facade.)
Here's some faces on another side of the same building that I will never get to use, as they are now covered up.
