Getting up and out early for a FULL day of Paris fun, we went straight to the Louvre to see the outside of the Louvre (since it is closed on Tuesdays) and its Gardens. We walked through the Arch close to the Louvre down to the memorial to those who went to the guillotine. There Will first saw the Eiffel Tower.
W e walked down to the Alexander III Bridge which is one of the most famous bridges in Paris because of its extravagance.
From there we walked to the Invalids. The Invalids were built by Napoleon as a war hospital for those injured in battle. He is buried there in the extravagant part of the building he built to house his body after he died.
From the Invalids we travelled to Hotel De Ville and Notre Dame. Before entering Notre Dame, we stopped at a Holocaust memorial right behind Notre Dame. Here there are two walls where each French Jew who was killed in the Holocaust is represented by a marble. It was very humbling to see the 200,000 marbles and to know these were real people who lost their lives.
Next we saw the inside of Notre Dame and the point outside of Notre Dame called Point Zero. Point Zero is the point from where all things used to be measured. (example: 100 miles from point zero in Paris is Metz) Yes we are still walking and it is still before lunch. We then walked to the bookstore Shakespeare and Company. This bookstore is where authors such as Hemingway wrote, read and hung out. From there we went to Napoleon’s first apartment, the apartment he lived in before he really became Napoleon.
That is how much we had walked at lunch time, whoa!
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