Paris - Last full Day

Nice late start with brunch next door. Onto the Memorial des Martyrs de la Deportation. The memorial covers the deportation of Jews communists and others from France (some 170,000 to 200,000 people). Good videos and stories but no recognition that France aided the deportation.

Then the epic climb up the right tower of Notre Dame. They do the climb in stages. Wonderful gargoyles and grotesques (all added in the 19th century by Eugène Viollet-le-Duck😉 in a fit of gothic revival)

After that, we drifted over to the left bank, did a little shopping and visited my second of sacred places in Paris (the first is La Place des Vosges).

Home for local cheese, salami and baguette.

Then on to my third of sacred places in Paris, Sainte Chapelle, for its 8:00 pm concert. [Pics 22-24 ] .

Finally, dinner at Les Deux Palais. What a treat. Everyone is in a festive mood. Margot and Ben take off to see the Eiffle Tower at night. We saunter home.

The river glows, the banks are for the last of the romantics [Pic 27] , the streets are empty [Pic 28 ] . We say goodbye. 😢Read more