The eastern tip of Ile de la Cité on the Seine
The bateau-mouche "Brigitte Bardot" on the Seine
Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris dating from 1578
Pont Alexandre, the most ornate bridge, in the Art Nouveau style, was opened by Tsar Nicholas II in 1900
La Conciergerie, the prison where Marie-Antoinette was held before being guillotined
Our hotel - "Grand Hôtel des Balcons"
Rue Casimir Delavigne
L'Académie française, founded in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu
Place de la Sorbonne
Place St-Michel, Davioud's 1860 sculpture of St. Michel slaying the dragon
Ferris wheel - Place de la Concorde
Birds-eye view of Montparnasse cemetery
Birds-eye view of Montparnasse
Les Invalides
Bougival
Marietta's garden, Bougival
Restaurant Bouillon Racine, 3, rue Racine, Paris, 6ieme
Le Sénat, Palais du Luxembourg, west face
Le Sénat, Palais du Luxembourg, north face
Musée du Luxembourg
Sainte Chapelle, 1248, constructed for Louis IX
Sainte Chapelle
Lower Chapel
Upper Chapel
Statue of an apostle, Upper Chapel
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris
Main entrance, Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris
Charlemagne
North Rose Window, 1270, retaining most of the original glass and design
The main altar of Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris was consecrated on May 19, 1182
Eglise St.-Germain-des-Près, the oldest church in Paris, dating from 6th century
Plaque commemorating the consecration of François de Montmorency Laval as Bishop of New France
Musée d'Orsay
Jules Cavelier,Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi,1861
Jean-Joseph Perraud, Despair, 1869
Thomas Couture, The Romans of the Decadence, 1847
Alexandre Falguière, Victor of the Cockfight, 1864
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Dance,1869
van Gogh, Self-Portrait, 1889
The Louvre
Pyramid, the Louvre
Jardin du Carrousel, Maillol, the Louvre
The Louvre, main entrance
The Sarcophagus of the Spouses, Etruscan, c. 520-510 BC
Venus de Milo,
Athena, the Pacific, 2nd century BC to 2nd century AD
Diana the Huntress
Aphrodite Kneeling with the hand of Eros
Centaur and Cupid
Drunken Silenus
The Three Graces
Sleeping Hermaphroditus
The Slave, by Michelangelo
Psyche Revived by the Kiss of Eros, Antonio Canova
La Gioconda, Leonardo da Vinci
Père Lachaise, entrance
Walewski mausoleum
Tomb of Frédéric Chopin
Tomb of Oscar Wilde, badly defaced
Tomb of Apollinaire
D'Ornano mausoleum
Tomb of Jim Morrison
Grand Trianon, Versailles
Gardens, Versailles
Grand Trianon, fragment
Winterized!
Petit Trianon, Versailles
Marie-Antoinette's Petit Hameau, Versailles
Malmaison, the Château of Joséphine, wife of Napoleon
Bonaparte, Malmaison
Napoleon on Horseback at the Saint-Bernard Pass, Jean-Louis David, c.1801
Dining Room, decorated in the Pompeian style, c.1800 by Fontaine
The Council Room, where the First Consul met with his ministers
Portrait of Emperor Napoleon in his Coronation Robes, François Gérard, 1805
l'Opéra Graslin, Nantes
Place Graslin
la Place Louis XVI et sa statue, Nantes
Courtyard, Nantes
Ooh-la-la, lingerie
Trompe l'oeil
Trompe l'oeil!
Ooh-la-la, les chocolats
Jules Verne Museum, Nantes
Captain Nemo
"Titan" crane, Ile de Nantes
Avec le Beaujolais Nouveau
Talensac market, Nantes
Shrimp, langoustine, crayfish, prawns, etc
A dozen kinds of oysters
La Cathédrale St-Pierre-St-Paul, Nantes, construction began in 1434
A recently completed renovation shows clean, white columns
The main altar
Renaissance tomb of François II, Duke of Brittany, and his second wife, Marguerite de Foix
Because of the renovation, the Cathedral looks new
Les machines de l'Ile, Nantes
The mechanical elephant is 12 meters high and 8 meters wide, made from 45 tons of wood and steel
The elephant can take up to 49 passengers for a 45-minute walk
Inside the Gallery other machines are being built: the Crab Larva, the Pirate Fish, the Reverse-Propelling Squid and the Manta Ray
Les machines de l'Ile opened in July 2007
Le Château des ducs de Bretagne, Nantes
Anne de Bretagne
Interior buildings within the fortifications, le Château des ducs de Bretagne
Nantes History Museum, le Château des ducs de Bretagne
Wall carving
Ship's figurehead
St. Elmo, the patron Saint of sailors
St. George
