P A R I S !!!
Charles DeGaulle Paris Airport
Arc de Triomphe
From the Montparnasse Skyscrapper
Tour Eiffel
From the Montparnasse Skyscrapper
In a parisian Bistrot
La Madeleine, a very special Church at the heart of Paris !
Les Invalides
The most notable tomb at Les Invalides is that of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) Napoleon was initially interred on Saint Helena, but King Louis Philippe arranged for his remains to be brought to France in 1840, an event known as le retour des cendres. Napoléon's remains were kept in the Saint Jerome (southwestern) chapel of the Dome church for more than two decades until his final resting place, a tomb made of red quartzite and resting on a green granite base, was finished in 1861.
Other military figures and members of Napoleon's family also buried at the Dome church, by year of burial there.
From the Montparnasse Skyscrapper
Napoleon II: I want my ashes to rest on the banks of the Seine in the middle of the French people that I loved so much.
Cannon yard
Napoleon's Tomb
Montparnasse
is an area in the south of Paris. Has been part of Paris since 1669. The area also gives its name to:
- Gare Montparnasse: trains to Brittany, TGV to Rennes, Tours, Bordeaux, Le Mans; rebuilt as a modern TGV station;
- The large Montparnasse: – Bienvenüe métro station;
- Cimetière du Montparnasse: where, among other celebrities, Charles Baudelaire, Constantin Brâncuși,
Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Man Ray, Samuel Beckett, Serge Gainsbourg and Susan Sontag are buried;
- Tour Montparnasse, a lone skyscraper.
Montparnasse Square
Montparnasse Skyscrapper and some photos from up there !
Montparnasse train station from the skyscrapper !
People in Paris
Metro
François Auguste René Rodin
(12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917)
was a French sculptor, generally
considered the founder of modern
He was schooled traditionally and
took a craftsman-like approach to
his work.
Rodin possessed a unique ability to model
a complex, turbulent, and deeply pocketed surface in clay.
He is known for such sculptures as
Rodin's Museum. The Thinker
Napoleon's Tomb, view from the Rodin Museum.
Garden of the museum, several magnifiques sculptures
Left:
The Hell's Gate. On top of it, another small Thinker.
