Babette & Miladus

The upper chapel of the Sainte Chapelle…

Viollet-le-Duc in action at the Musée d'Orsay.

Our day with Bill at the Sacré Coeur and the Luxembourg Gardens:

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Bill and Milad decided to go and have a beer,

while Dawn, Joe and I climbed the dome of the Sacré Coeur.

A minidome from the large dome.

We even found graffiti on the carvings in the dome.

At the Luxembourg garden, the Queen Statues now have a pointed reminder to the pigeons to roost elsewhere.

Movable art in the Luxembourg garden.

Joe on the Metro.

Milad in a blur of pedagogical frenzy.

Topiaries in the upper garden.

The Bernini horses of the sun with the fountains on; this is how they really are supposed to look.

Dawn and Joe on the way to Marie-Antoinette's Hermitage.

At the Hermitage: a small house with flowers growing in the thatch on the roof.

In Marie-Antoinette's farmette, one of the diminutive animals: a minipig.

Leaving the English garden and on our way to the Trianons.

A plaster decoration in the Petit Trianon.

Napoleon (actually in the Versailles palace).

But here is Napoleon's desk at the Grand Trianon.

Back at the large palace, we visited the king's bedroom and the private chambers. Here, the Dauphin's library, one of the most delightful rooms in the palace.

And an astounding (and enormous: six feet high) globe, with the political boundaries on the outer globe and the geological relief on the inner.

In the king's bedroom: the embossed sun symbol on the inner ceiling of the window looking out over the Cour d'Honneur.

The upper window in the king's bedroom.

One of his window louvers.

A patient Milad waiting for us to finish touristing.

A last view from the king's window looking towards Paris. We thought this picture looked like a painting, but it's the late afternoon sun.