Notre Dame, the famous western facade
Point Zero, the center point of all France, in the courtyard in front of Notre Dame
the birdman of Notre Dame
the western rose window, with the eponymous Notre Dame, the virgin Mary
St. Denis brought Christianity to France, and the pagans beheaded him for it; but he picked up his head and kept on preaching
the central portal: the Final Judgment
a closeup of Christ presiding over judgment
to Christ's left, devils cavort in hell
the famous gargoyles of Notre Dame
the south rose window, facing the Left Bank
the southwest corner - spires and buttresses
the eastern view of Notre Dame, with the flying buttresses
a closer view of the buttresses
Notre Dame, the center aisle
the vaulted ceiling with intersecting arches, a technological advance that allowed them to raise Notre Dame's ceiling much higher than in previous ages
a side view of Notre Dame's nave
prayer candles
Joan of Arc, once burned as a heretic, now a saint
a French priest hears confession in Notre Dame (notice the sign listing the languages he speaks)
a penitent in a side chapel
the altar and choir
part of the bas relief around the back of the choir: Thomas feels Jesus' wounds
the other side of the choir: Mary (always in a blue cloak with stars) shepherds Jesus through his young life
the southern rose window from the inside
a view of Notre Dame from the Left Bank
one of the few remaining Art Nouveau Metro stops
rue Galande, a remnant of medieval Paris
Shakespeare & Co., where American writers of the Lost Generation gathered
St. Severin, with its flamboyant (flame-like) window
the Latin Quarter eatery where I finally got to eat french fries (and the gentleman who made them for us)
place St. Michel, site of several uprisings
Sainte-Chappelle, the royal chapel built to house the crown of thorns Jesus wore to the cross
Sainte-Chappelle's amazing stained glass windows
a fromagerie (that's right - everything in there is cheese)
Getty and Sindy in our hotel room
Getty and me: one of us is American and one of us is Chinese
Getty at the Cimetiere du Pere-Lachaise
Pere-Lachaise
a family plot at Pere-Lachaise (notice, on the side: two people have been buried here so far, with room for plenty more)
Jim Morrison's grave
Proust's grave
Oscar Wilde's grave
a closeup of the Wilde's tombstone
the foot of the Eiffel Tower
the top of the Eiffel Tower - we're looking at Wuhan, if only we could see that far
dusk from the second level of the Eiffel Tower
Getty under the Eiffel Tower
Getty taking a picture of the world's most famous painting
a Sumerian winged bull, at the Louvre
an Egyptian sphinx
statues of the apis bull, one of the many animals the Egyptians worshiped as gods
a prayer to the apis bull...
...one of many
an Egyptian book of the dead, describing a man's successful journey from this life into the next
a pharaoh's sarcophagus, depicting the journey of Ra, the sun god, through the night (the pharaohs were supposed to be descended from Ra)
a Phoenician sarcophagus in the Egyptian style
an Egyptian mummy
cat mummies
Canova's Cupid and Psyche
the Venus de Milo, a side view
the Venus de Milo, front
Winged Victory of Samothrace (Nike)
Nike overseeing the throngs of tourists as they pass through the Louvre
the thinker, in the Musee Rodin
Rodin's Adam and Eve
Rodin's The Kiss
Rodin's Three Shades, a depiction of the characters from Dante's Inferno
the Seine
