Jardin des Plantes

On a very wet and rainy day we set off for the Jardin des Plantes and lunch at a couscous restaurant.
I never could figure out what the name of the restaurant and patisserie was.

Eglise Saint Medard on rue Mouffetard

Other pictures of the church can be found at http://earlswifestravelspartii.blogspot.fr/2014/04/jardin-butte-chaumont-et-des-plantes-et.html

Jardins des Plantes

Jardin des Plantes labyrinthe

Inside the hedge is the perfect hiding place for a child or 

a quiet place to play. 

Beehive  

Rose Garden

This marble statue was produced by the French artist and sculptor Felix Sanzel, back in 1868, and it is called either l'Amour Prisonnier or more commonly, l'Amour Captif, which generally translates to Captive Love.

The statue is design to represent Amour, the God of love, or the God of falling in love, looking up to a Satyr. 

There were several rock samples in the garden.  Some of them were from the Alps and one of these 

came from the Pyrenees.

Buffon

The Comte de Buffon became the curator in 1739 and he expanded the gardens greatly, adding a maze, the Labyrinth, which remains today. In 1792 the Royal Menagerie was moved to the gardens from Versailles.

Couscous at La Mosaic

Rue Mouffetard

Demonstrators across the street from our window on la Motte Picquet

Montmartre

In the background the home of Dalida a famous French Italian singer

Yolanda Cristina Gigliotti

Views from the funicular going up to the Sacre Coeur

A small public garden in Montmartre

The man who could pass through walls

Story by Marcel Aymé

Le Passe-Muraille

Sacre Coeur

And yes, it was very windy

Mysterious door

Notre Dame de Lorette

Two notable figures in French culture were baptized at Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. Musician Georges Bizet received his baptism at the church on March 16, 1840, while painter Claude Monet was baptized on May 20, 1841.

The façade features Charles-François Lebœuf's sculptureSix angels in adoration before the Madonna and Child.

A square just below Sacre Coeur with potable drinking water source

Place du Tertre

Porte Saint Denishttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porte_Saint-Denis

Provo was called Fort Utah when it was settled in 1849 by 33 Mormon families from Salt Lake City, but was renamed Provo in 1850 for Étienne Provost, an early French-Canadian trapper who arrived in the region in 1825. The Battle of Fort Utah was fought at Provo in 1850.*

Pizza Rossi

The creperie on the corner had tables on the sides of the street and this one in the middle of the street.

The street ended in stairs so there was no traffic.

Théâtre de l'Atelier

Moulin de la Galette

One or two window boxes

*Not sure if it pays to do research on sights that we have seen or not.  I did not know until I looked up the origin of the name Provo that it was once called Fort Utah where "mormons" slaughtered sleeping Utes in 1849.

The Battle of  Fort Utah: The first battle between Mormon settlers in Utah and the Native American Ute Indians who lived there occurred at Battle Creek, Utah. The sleeping Indians were outnumbered and outgunned so that they did not stand a chance against the Deseret Militia who crept in and surrounded their camp in the pre-dawn hours of March 5, 1849. Mormon settlement of Utah Valley came upon the heels of the attack at Battle Creek, Utah