Now I am in Paris.
Sunday night Mass in Cathedrale de Notre Dame is full.
Parishioners in Breton costumes bring up the gifts at the Offertory.
Barges on the Seine Sunday evening.
Breakfast room at the Hotel Alexandrie
I am staying near the Gare de Lyon.
On a bus tour, we pass by the new Bibliotecque Nationale--like two open books.
The new stadium.
The July column in the Place de la Bastille: July 27, 28, 29, 1830
All the buses seem to stop at Notre Dame.
The shortest bridget in Paris.
Institut de France, home of the Academie Francaise and other learned socieites.
Musee d'Orsay
The Louvre, across the Pont du Carrousel..
Assemblie Nationale
Place de la Concorde
Obelisk of Luxor, a pink granite monolith that was given to the French in 1829 by the viceroy of Egypt.
One of the two fountains in the Place de la Concorde
Place de la Concorde--the center of Paris, formerly the Place de la Revolution, where the guillotine stood from 1793-1795.
Gare d'Orsay
Riding up the Champs Elysees
Look there are are people on the top.
Beautiful from every side.
Trocadero
Swing around the Eiffel Tower, seen across the Champ de Mars. See the Trocadero?
Down the Avenue de Bourdonnais
Les Invalides--Tomb of Napoleon is there.
Esplanade des Invalides
Tower of St. Germain des Pres--on the Boulevard St. Germain, left bank.
Hotel de Cluny--Musee de Moyen Age. My favorite museum--where all the medieval and Renaissance art is.
Model of the Hotel Cluny--the abbots of Cluny stayed here when they were in Paris, in the middle ages.
Renaissance room
Circumcision of Jesus.
Swooning of the Virgin at the crucifixion.
St. Barbara
Holy Family--Jesus is pulling Joseph's beard.
The abbey walls show their antiquity.
John the Baptist
A tabernacle?
A Mon Seul Desir-the Lady and the Unicorn, taming the unicorn through the five senses.
Sense of Taste
Hearing
Sight--
Smell
Touch
Ceramics
A tapestry devoted to wine-making, , smashing the grapes.
Picking the grapes
Tasting the wine
The hunt, on a millefiore field.
A decorated shield
A procession of knights
The courtyard of Cluny
Schoolchildren try their artistic skills in drawing the building.
This was their subject--good practice in perspective.
What a beautiful spiral staircase!
Streets of the Left Bank
The Bastille opera house
At the Gare de Lyon--how to get through the turnstyles without paying.
All the TGVs
You must "composter" or validate your ticket before boarding your train.
Outbound
Inbound
So many choices!
Hotel de Ville (town hall)
Boul St. Mich
I'll be taking the RER to CDG when I leave.
St-Michel himself!
Lovely apartments!
Gare d'Orsay. See those white vans? They are all over France.
Maxim's--Gigi's territory!
The Madeleine
We have one of the those in Chicago!
So I'll remember my uniform of many layers.
Au Printemps department store
We pass another open tour bus.
Garnier Opera House
Ticket office
The opera house is immense!
Comedie Francaise coming up on the left
Eglise de la Trinite
Place de Clichy
Boulevard de Clichy
Le Moulin Rouge
Street of thrift shops.
Leading up to Montmartre from the Bd Rouchechouart
Montmartre has a carousel too!
What a beautiful church. I'll see if I can take the funicular up.
Not in service today, sorry.
I'll just sit in a care across the street and gaze at it.
Street painters.
A shell game paying out.
The map of the Open Tour bus--I went on all four routes, on a two-day pass for 32 euros.
Gare du Nord.
Gare de l'Est
This capuccino cost 6.80 euros!
Here we are at the Comedie Francaise again.
You can see the sign over the door.
Comedie Francaise
Hotel de Louvre
Louvre
The green bus will not take me back to the hotel.
King Louis IX, the saintly king for whom the Ile St-Louis is names.
I'm too exhausted to go in.
Ah, St. Louis
I'll take a nap like the pigeon.
St. Severin, over on the left bank.
A special shrine to Therese of Lisieux.
St-Severin has a lovely quiet garden outside.
A Turkish restaurant
Next door, an Indian one.
Next day, after a good rest, I tackle the Orangerie early, to see the Monet Nympheas, water lilies.
A miniature of the collector/dealer Paul Guillaume's apartment in Paris. He gave his collection to the nation, and it is now in the Orangerie.
These miniatures show where he had hung his collection about his home.
Cezanne's wife Hortense patiently sat for him again and again.
Cezanne
Modigliane
Rousseau
Matisse
The Orangerie has been redone==reopening in 2006
A beautiful day on the Place de la Concorde.
Now there's a line into the Orangerie.
I find a seat beside one of the small lakes here and have a siesta.
School boys out for a visit to the Louvre and gardens.
Perfect day for a stroll in the Tuilleries.
Relaxing in the Tuileries
The Louvre.
The boys pose for me.
Across the Pont Royal.
Looks like the Musee d'Orsay again.
What beautiful china!
St-Catherine Laboure died in 1876, whose body was exhumed and found to be incorrupt.
St-Vincent de Paul
St. Catherine Laboure is buried under the Marian altar in the chapel of the Apparition on the Rue du Bac.
Foundress of the Daughters of Charity, the religious order to which Catherine belonged.
Skeleton of Louisse de Marillac in wax, not incorrupt.
Church of St-Thomas Acquinas
Favorite restaurant of Gertrude Stein and Hemingway on the Boulevard St-Germain
St-Germain des Pres
Les Deux Magots
