statue du gal Mangin en 1900
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la statue devant l'abside de l'église
st francis xavier church
Église Saint François-Xavier des missions Étrangères
Sainte Madeleine-Sophie Barat!
The saint was, from 1806 to her death in 1865, the Mother Superior of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart.
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A World War I general from France. "After the Allied victory, Mangin's 10th Army was sent to occupy the Rhineland. There, he became the focus of controversy due to his attempts to foster the establishment of a pro-French Rhenish Republic with the aim of separating it from Germany and thus denying Germany the West bank of the Rhine."
When Hitler entered Paris early in WW II, he had two statues destroyed. Mangin was one of them. This statue replaced that one in 1957. Strange as it may seem I cannot understand why a second statue of this man was erected. I am not a fan at all.
The other statue that Hitler had destroyed was of Edith Cavell an English nurse serving in Belgium in the 1st World War. She treated soldiers of all nationalities and aided in the escape of 200 allied soldiers. On the 100th anniversary of her execution, a former director of MI 5 revealed information that Cavell was in fact also a spy. Because of this she was executed by the occupying German army. From all that I can learn, the only memorials existing now of her are in Belgium and the UK. I think they should have put up one of her in 1957 instead of Mangin.
  
A view I will never get to see
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royal institution for blind youth
Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, (National Institute for Blind Children or Royal Institution for Blind Youth), in Paris, was the first special school for blind students in the world, and served as a model for many subsequent schools for blind students.
also see Valentin Hauy from Wikipedia
Another building that we pass on our walk is the Necker hospital for sick children
Most of the information online is in French. However is the spring of 2015 conjoined twins were born in England and were taken to Necker in Paris for surgery. Just from the little I could read about the hospital, I found out that it is one of the rare hospitals that has a staff prepared to deal with special or extraordinary infant problems.
The building is so unusual that it draws your eye to it from anywhere along several streets.
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