As it's the 14th of July, the celebrations of the National Day started early in the morning. Instead of looking at the celebration en place, we took part of it via the television with military parades and speeches by the President Jacques Chirac and others.
Métro to Place d'Italie. Walked through a part of China Town looking into the food stores - of course - and other boutiques. The of course as they have good products to very good prizes. When Aurore lived in Paris during her studies, she often did her grocery shopping in the Chinese district.
We also passed La Mairie at Place d'Italie. I had the idea that there were only one Mairie in Paris but each commune within the capital, each arrondissement has its one.
Place d'Italie
La Mairie
La Manufacture des Gobelins on avenue des Gobelins The Manufacturer des Gobelins is a tapestry factory. It is best known as a royal factory supplying the court of the French monarchs since Louis XIV. It's now run by the Administration générale du Mobilier national et des Manufactures nationales de tapis et tapisseries of the French Ministry of Culture.
A detail on the facade (Gobelins)
We then went on to take a look at Aurore's and Aki Kaurismäki's University - Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III, below).
Rue Mouffetard, Lycée Henri IV and - Panthéon, originally built as a church dedicated to Sainte Geneviève, but after many vicissitudes now combines liturgical functions with its role as a famous burial place. The arhitectural style is Neoclassicism, with a façade modelled on the Pantheon in Rome, surmounted by a small dome that owes some of its character to Bramante's "Tempietto".
Among the 'celebrities' buried in its necropolis we find Voltaire, Rousseau, Marat, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Jean Moulin, Marie Curie, Louis Braille and Soufflot, the architect.
A magnificent building!
Rue Mouffetard and one of many "wine shops" exposing their products.
A small alley on the way.
Lycée Henri IV
Le Panthéon
Eglise S:t Etienne. Rue Monge to Arènes de Lutèce the amphitheatre/arena where the cradle of Paris stood.
Église S:t Etienne
A detail on the facade of the church.
Rue Linné - named after the great Swedish botanist - with music stores (Jussieu musique) towards Jardin des Plantes with Musée de l'Evolution.
Hereafter the mosque - La Grande Mosquée de Paris - where we drank tea and ate sweets ("Sweets for my sweet"=Aurore).
I was happier and more satisfied
than this photo reveales! The heat?
After this we went to Jardin du Luxembourg where we bought ice-cream.
I have never seen such an amount of ice-cream flavours! More than one hundred! It's a family with an ambulant ice-cream stand, having sold ice cream here for generations, as far as Aurore knows.
We also listened to a concert in Jardin du Luxembourg.
An orchestra in Jardin de Luxembourg
La Reine Mathilde (1031-1083).
Sculptor: Jean Jacques Marie Carle Vital Elshoect (1797-1856)
Sainte-Geneviève (423-502/512).
Sculptor: Michel Louis Victor Mercier(1810-1894)
We continue Rue Bonaparte towards the church Sainte Sulpice and Marché St Germain (closed). After this, we went to Église St Germain des Près and a visit inside this the oldest church of Paris.
Sainte Sulpice
Église St Germain des Près
Rue Jacob with a small Ladurée-store with, among other things, macarons and a lot of other tasty pastry (below)! Ladurée is one of the foremost confectioners in Paris of France with shops a bit everywhere.
Theatre de L'Odéon where we rested, not least to eat something.
Université René Descartes, Rue des Écoles towards Boulevard St Michel and Musée de Moyen Age. We didn't go in there today however.
Théâtre de L'Odéon
Université René Descartes...
...with some details
Musée de Moyen Âge
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