Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Montmartre







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





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


















And yes, it was very windy


Mysterious door


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









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

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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







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 UtahThe 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

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