While Rebecca and Jeremy enjoyed a week in Madrid, Penelope stayed with us for more Parisian explorations. May 30th we visited the Invalides, Napoleon's Tomb, then walked a bit of the 8th to Parc Monceau. It was a warm day, and all that was enough.
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Dome of the great church of St. Louis of the Invalides; Louis XIV
vintage but famous for other things |
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| Interior |
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| N's tomb from the main floor |
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Other military biggies interred there: Vauban, Louis XIV's
military architect |
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| In one of the chapels |
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| Marshal Foch, of WWI fame |
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| Now in the crypt |
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| My sternest Napoleonic pose |
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| Looking into the nave of the great church itself |
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Moving right along, having crossed a river, we are in the 8th, and I
have noticed two buildings by the famed art nouveau architect, Jules Lavirotte,
on Avenue Messina and rue de Messina respectively |
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| A lack of symmetry was among his trademarks |
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Not as famous and wide-ranging as Guimard, but Lavirotte's
29 Avenue Rapp, in the 8th, is nonetheless perhaps Paris' most
photographed art nouveau residence |
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And now we are at Parc Monceau, not as huge as some of Paris'
other parks, but hugely popular on this warm sunny day |
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| Former tax collecting building, now toilettes |
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| Beautifully landscaped |
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| Very big old tree |
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| The pond |
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Nice park, which we also visited in 2014; cosmic coincidence:
the Hotel Ceramique pictured in the 2014 post is also by Jules
Lavirotte...! |
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