Paris walk on Saturday afternoon

We took the metro to Cluny and started walking from there.

Apostles climbing up the spire

A surprise find walking by the Seine

A tribute to people from WW II resistance who died during August of 1944.

A relatively new addition to the grounds of Notre Dame Cathedral

Statue of Pope Jean Paul II placed here on October 13, 2014

Cedar tree from Lebanon

Preventing anyone from climbing up the drain pipe.

My one disappointment is that we did not get a better picture of the dark lion.

The information on this statue (if you click on Barye above) does not include one.

Barye statue: "Antoine Louis Barye passed away in 1875 and this monument was erected in his honour close to where he had lived in Paris, and the enormous bronze statue on the top was cast by the Barbedienne foundry who had purchased many of the models Barye had produced, yet unfortunately the original was melted down in 1942 during the Vichy regime, when Paris was under occupation in World War II."

This park is on the island of Saint Louis and is known as the parc Ile Saint Louis.

I was delighted to discover that someone else was interested in the statue. 

It was in 2001 that the decision was made to restore the monument to Barye.

It was not completed until 2012 and with the aid of Taiwan.

 Centaur and Lapith by  Antoine Louis Barye

Narrow streets in the Marais

We were interested in the contrast between the two buildings.  

One very modern and the other classic Paris.

Walking by the Seine

Pantheon in the background

Barges on the river that are obviously people's homes.

Passing fresh vegetables on our walk.  I did not see a price for the artichokes that 

were so huge.  The white vegetable at the front next to the lettuce is a 

variety of radish.

The Pantheon

"Shortly after the Pantheon was built (which was called back then the Sainte-Genevieve Church), came the French

Revolution. It was then when the Revolutionist government changed the church into a mausoleum, a place to 
burry exceptional Frenchmen who had sacrificed their lives for their country or who had done something great for 
France. The Pantheon flipped back and forth to a church over the years but eventually assumed its lasting role as 
a  burial place for martyrs and brilliant French citizens for good."

The Pantheon Crypt

1. Voltaire
2. Rousseau
3. Victor Hugo 
4. Marat
5. Emile Zola
6. Jean Moulin
7. Soufflot 
8. Louis Braille
9. Marie Curie

Voltaire

The Professor and I visited the Pantheon two years ago.  After looking at many unfamiliar

statues online, I think it must be time for us to go back..  It's the paying

to get in part that is painful.

Interesting, quirky items on the streets

This is a building which began as the chapel on an abbey in the 13th century.

In the centuries that followed it was added onto several times as the population

of Paris increased and so did the Parish.

Tomb of Saint Genevieve in the church St Etienne du Mont

She was born in Nanterre, c. 419/422 AD – Paris 502/512 AD), 

She is said to have organized a marathon prayer that saved Paris from the invasion of 

Attila and the Hun.

St Genevieve

The patron saint of Paris

St Genevieve watching over the city from the bridge. 

Painted wall