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Driving from Chartres back to Paris, we stopped to visit the Palace of Versailles, but we could not take photos there. We dropped the rental car at Montparnasse and took a taxi to our hotel on Île St Louis. |
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Typically understated Paris lamp-post. |
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We visited the Musée d'Orsay: very obviously a converted railway station. |
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The clock at Musée d'Orsay. |
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Then we wandered along the banks of the Seine ... |
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... to Sainte-Chappelle, built by King (Saint) Louis to house the Crown of Thorns that he had bought. |
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Capital of one of the columns in St-Chappelle. |
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Angel with the Crown of Thorns. |
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Lynn also tried some black-and-white photography. This is Notre Dame. |
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The pyramid in front of the Louvre. |
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You-know-what seen in a haze from a distance. |