Paris 11 Ancien - Quartier Palais-de-Justice, France Travel Journals & Blogs

Christie Mitchell RTW 2022
- May 4, 2022, 12:00pm · ☁️ 59 °F Altitude: 154 ft
  France Île-de-France Paris Paris 11 Ancien - Quartier Palais-de-Justice Palais de Justice de Paris 48.855671, 2.34517248°51’20” N 2°20’43” E
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Day 44
Ile de la Cite
May 4, 2022 in France ⋅ ☁️ 59 °F
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We had an exhausting day today - the adrenaline couldn’t hold the jet lag back any longer. But what a beautiful city Paris is!

We’ve mastered the metro and are getting around pretty easily. (Adam would be proud). We headed to Ile de La Cite (a small island) and saw Notre Dame (the outside as it’s still being repaired from the fire in 2019), St Chapelle Cathedral, The Conciergerie (prison where Marie Antoinette was held), the Luxembourg Palace & gardens and finished it up with Musee d’Orsay. (Impressionist museum built in an old train station). It was a full day seeing places I’ve only seen on TV or in the movies. Crazy.

Paris’s public water is some of the best in the world. It is natural spring water that is piped in everywhere. We saw a documentary on it at home. Jordan found one of the fountains. Have to say, it DID taste better!

We went back to fall asleep early at 8:00 but we’re so messed up our bodies won’t let us fall asleep (probably because in our heads it’s only noon). Oh well, I’m sure we’ll adjust eventually!Read more
Traveler So cool! Being a tourist in big cities can be exhausting for sure. very surreal feeling to see things in person that you never imagined you would see. Glad you are getting to experience it.
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Christie Mitchell Yep definitely.
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Traveler Oh man, that is beautiful.
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Christie Mitchell It was!!!
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France: Normandy & Paris
- Sep 6, 2023, 2:05pm · ☀️ 88 °F Altitude: 157 ft
  France Île-de-France Paris Paris 11 Ancien - Quartier Palais-de-Justice Palais de Justice de Paris 48.855626, 2.34490748°51’20” N 2°20’42” E
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Day 7
Sainte-Chapelle
September 6 in France ⋅ ☀️ 88 °F
Toured this chapel on the same island as Notre Dame. Commissioned by Louis IX 1242>1248 to house the relics of passion. The stained glass is 70% original and covers a total of 6,889 sq ft., each window is 51 ft x 44ft depicting 1,113 scenes from the Bible read from left to right, bottom to top, in S path (see the Last Supper close up) over the alter in #8 " Christ's Passion" . Get this, all scenes were drawn to scale, glass was made in bulk, cut to size and mounted, not bad for 13th century...easy job🫣. The rose window The Apocalypse of St. John is 29ft in diameter and faces west-and the setting sun, a symbol of the end of time.Read more
Traveler Love the selfie! So pretty. Def not AZ.
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Traveler Next time with the Sashes!
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Tre Donne in Italia
- May 29, 2023, 10:36am · ☀️ 18 °C Altitude: 48 m
  France Île-de-France Paris Paris 11 Ancien - Quartier Palais-de-Justice La Sainte Chapelle 48.855339, 2.34516748°51’19” N 2°20’43” E
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Day 10
J’aime Paris
May 29 in France ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
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Jam packed day!! We visited the extraordinary sainte chapel. Glorious glass windows!! Saw the outside of Notre Dame and The Louvre. Did a little too much souvenir shopping… as usual. Ended the day with a dinner cruise on the Seine River and a close look at the Eiffel Tower:)Read more
Traveler 😂this is the best
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Traveler Tandem scooters 🛴
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Traveler Learning To Swim
- Aug 19, 2019, 10:23am · ☀️ 18 °C Altitude: 50 m
  France Île-de-France Paris Paris 11 Ancien - Quartier Palais-de-Justice Île de la Cité 48.85478, 2.3455148°51’17” N 2°20’44” E
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Day 3
The Lady and the Unicorn
August 19, 2019 in France ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Woke at 5.00am, so not too bad. Breaky in hotel. The bread is devine. Salami and cheeses.

Off to Musee du Cluny to see the medieval tapestries The Lady and The Unicorn. They depict the 5 senses along with desire. Massive red and dark wall hangings filled with millefleur and forest animals. Loved this so much. Read the novel and it's Harry Potters common room. So beautiful. The lighting is dark to keep from fading.

We get to the museum just at opening time, bonus.
The first room we enter is an old bath house. Massive empty room with a few statues and items from the era. A copper bathtub sits at one end. Loved this room. Next we check out a room full of jewellery and medieval artwork. I come across a golden rose. It looks to be important, so I take a photo. I may sit still one day and learn about it. But not now.

We look at other tapestries leaving the best til last.
Then we enter 'The' room. It is quiet, dark, black with a crimson glow from these magnificent tapestries.
I am beguiled and take my time to investigate each one.

Loving this so much. Finding treasures that you never think you will ever see. Then here you are in front of them. Always blows me away.
I love this because it is like time travel.
I imagine the pressure and artistry it takes.

The intricate flowers are devine. The bunnies and birds whimsical.

Even Athena says she really enjoyed seeing them.

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Traveler Love the room. Love the balcony.
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Traveler Hey, I really have to learn not to hit that 'Enter' button before I have finished speaking! Love it all. It is so FRENCH. Wonderful walking ( even the wrong way ... sometimes the best things happen when you do that.) wonderful Lady and The Unicorn. Wonderful place to eat and drink. Great first day in Paris. Have a ball, ladies. OK ..... now .... 'Enter'.
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Traveler There you go.
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Traveler Euro20%
- Jun 27, 2023, 12:39pm · ☁️ 22 °C Altitude: 21 m
  France Île-de-France Paris Paris 11 Ancien - Quartier Palais-de-Justice Place Dauphine 48.858333, 2.34166748°51’30” N 2°20’30” E
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Day 18
Paris ; the city of looove
June 27 in France ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Arrived in Paris - not gonna lie, it's kind of overhyped.

The amount of homeless people is outstanding and it smells. But nonetheless, we ventured on and did a boat cruise of the main views along the Seine River 🛥Read more
Traveler Awesome boat cruise great way to see the city
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Traveler Learning To Swim
- Aug 19, 2019, 11:02am · ⛅ 19 °C Altitude: 48 m
  France Île-de-France Paris Paris 11 Ancien - Quartier Palais-de-Justice La Sainte Chapelle 48.85542, 2.3449948°51’20” N 2°20’42” E
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Day 3
Saint Chapelle
August 19, 2019 in France ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
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Lots of young hot gendarme around. Bit distracting to Athena and I !!

Saint Chapelle sits opposite Notre Dame. We walk up the winding staircase and I turn to watch Athena's face as we enter the chapel room. Oh wow she exclaims.
Inside the cathedral walls are all devine, set in stained coloured glass columns. Such a pretty thing to behold. Breathtaking and peaceful.

Although it was packed we didn't feel squashed. Whenever the din got loud, a voice over the loud speaker all told us to hush please in French.

On our exit we passed down the tight spiral staircase worn slippery smooth over time. Athena became quite petrified making her way downward on the steeped steps. She regained her composure once out in the courtyard faced with the handsome, tight bummed youthful gendarmes.Read more
Traveler Wow! So spectacular.
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Traveler Giggle, quick google of gendarme meaning and giggle some more! I thought the bartender may have had the same reaction and distracted you both from your onion soup! 😘
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Traveler Learning To Swim
- Aug 21, 2019, 11:00pm · 🌙 17 °C Altitude: 42 m
  France Île-de-France Paris Paris 11 Ancien - Quartier Palais-de-Justice Île de la Cité 48.85518, 2.3459748°51’19” N 2°20’45” E
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Day 5
Athena's Last Night in Paris
August 21, 2019 in France ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
Hi Athena here, just letting you know about our last night in Paris.

It all started with us chilling in our hotel room & me falling asleep. Sandra finally waking me up as it was 8pm &, we needed to start getting ready for our cruise where we had no idea on what time it was leaving & where it was leaving from & we had purchased no tix. As you can tell, our organisation was non existent. I said to Sandra, OK start getting ready, she responds with I'm ready.... I thought hmmmm, I asked her whether she's wearing what she had on, she said yea why?,i said don't you want to get dressed up for our last day in Paris & the cruise..... Sandra agreed in putting something other than what we call her comfy dress. Well she wore a beautiful dress 👗 and she looks awesome.

We headed out & realised that the ferry doesn't depart from Notre-Dame & that it actually depends from the eiffel 🗼. So we went on line to purchase tix just to realise that there were no seats available!!!!!. Oh well by this time it was 9.30pm & I was starving for my onion soup for the fourth night in a row.

The first night we arrived in Paris we had dinner at a beautiful restaurant 🍴 & the food and service was outstanding so we decided to head back & make our last night a nice one.

As soon as the waiter saw us his eyes 👀 lit up & we found ourselves having e waiter's looking after us.

Hi Sandra back again... We enjoyed our soup, I got drunk and we walked back, whilst I became all philosophical about what love really should look like.Read more
Traveler Looking beautiful ... and a 'touch' French!
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Traveler Je T’aime Paris❤️
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Traveler Lol Athena you are going to miss your French onion soup!! What an interesting conversation what does love look like??
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Olddustyboots.com Belgium, France and Holland
- Apr 15, 2023, 1:30pm · ☁️ 10 °C Altitude: 47 m
  France Île-de-France Paris Paris 11 Ancien - Quartier Palais-de-Justice Palais de Justice de Paris 48.856078, 2.34497548°51’22” N 2°20’42” E
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Day 13
Sainte Chapelle
April 15 in France ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
In early December 2022, I visited Sainte Chapelle after completing my Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Now I got to bring my Douglas to this beautiful church that was originally used only by the Royal family. Sainte Chapelle used to house the religious relics brought back from the Crusades, such as the Crown of thorns.
This church is no longer used for religious services, but it is famous for its tall stained glass windows.
The lower level of the building has arched ceilings decorated in blue with tiny fleurs de lis scattered across them like stars. The ceilings are supported by decorated columns in shades of blue and red. Again the columns are decorated with the fleurs de lis and crowns.
Upstairs, reached by narrow circular stone steps, is a high, open room filled with blue light due to the walls being lined with tall stained glass windows. Each window depicts a story from the Bible and it would be possible to sit in this room for days studying these glass panels.
At the end of the room above the very high wooden doors, there is a beautiful stained glass rose window. The senses are almost overwhelmed by the colours, the pictures and the emotions this room evokes in the visitor. My heart fills with happiness to have been able to share this place with Doug.Read more
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Traveler UK and Europe
- Jul 27, 2023, 10:30am · ☁️ 20 °C Altitude: 48 m
  France Île-de-France Paris Paris 11 Ancien - Quartier Palais-de-Justice La Sainte Chapelle 48.855436, 2.3450548°51’20” N 2°20’42” E
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Day 21
Sainte Chapelle
July 27 in France ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
After a breakfast of fresh baguette and jam we headed out to the Metro to travel to Sainte Chapelle.

The Metro maps in make it really easy to work out which train you need to catch. The first train we caught was really old and if you didn't know how many stops you needed to travel then you could of been stuck. The second train was a lot more modern and had signs letting you know what the next stop was. However the trainline name on the train was in the opposite direction which had some people quite confused!!

What was quite amusing is the use of paper train tickets! Not even ole Adelaide is this antiquated. In saying that the Metro was very easy to travel on.

Our first stop for the day was Sainte Chapelle which was commissioned by St Louis in the 1300's.

The amazing thing about this church is the stained glass windows with each column dipicting stories from a different book of the bible. There is a column which depicts the lineage of the house of Jesse as St Louis saw himself as a rightful descendent of that family!!Read more
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Traveler Paris and London
- May 18, 2023, 2:00pm · ☁️ 16 °C Altitude: 49 m
  France Île-de-France Paris Paris 11 Ancien - Quartier Palais-de-Justice La Sainte Chapelle 48.855393, 2.34499448°51’19” N 2°20’42” E
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Day 6
Sainte-Chapelle
May 18 in France ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
I was looking forward to this chapel. It's out last so before travelling to London. It has over 1,000 pieces of stained glass, 70% are the original. The chapel was built to house relics of the Passion.

The chapel is two chapels in one, with one on top of the other. You walk into the lower chapel first, I was a little underwhelmed. Where is all the stained glass? There is some, but nothing like what I was expecting. Then we found the stairs to the upper chapel...

The upper chapel is amazing. Almost floor to ceiling stained glass panels. Each tell a story, being different books from the Bible. The appear more blue or purple depending on the light. Simply stunning.Read more
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