This is a church...it is in Paris, and you can see it from Sacre Cour...that's about alls I knows
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Two great antennas, one is now a world landmark and one is mark on the skyline of Paris...deep...
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The sun sits behind a lamp near Sacre Cour
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Sacre Bleu! It's Sacre Cour...or Sacred Heart, a nice little building with a great view
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The Arc de Triumph...yep, it's still there
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The eternal flame at the center of the arc
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A street vendor pauses to look at the tower as his items sit on a blanket near the Eiffel Tower
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Biiiig tower...small towers
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The point of the great glass pyramid that forms the focal point of the main entrance to the Louvre museum
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Taken from a side window, which was in a small glass room that was open, but after emerging from taking this photo the lady
told me I wasn't supposed to go in there. Well, how am I supposed to know THAT? Some lady had just come out of there so
I assumed it was ok, there was no sign and the door was open...sounds like a public space to me!
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Funny asian guy poses with Mona
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Lisa's admirer snaps a photo
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You see, in ye days of olde the church had a bit inflated position in the world...see illustration
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Winged Victory presides over an open area of the Louvre
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These are the BIG paintings
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This is the mean child choking a bird...why don't they teach THESE sculptures in general art classes? I find this
one much more entertaining and interesting than many other pieces of sculpture I've seen.
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A panoramic of the Louvre's main entryway
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Children play on columns in some park that I don't quite recall
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Ever so much attention is given to decorating the metro in Paris
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A silhouetted statue in a church in Paris
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An angel statue in a church in Paris
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Xavier was one of several IMLPs from Med Systems Europe that helped to show me around the city
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