by Deirdre Timmons | Jul 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
This is possibly my all-time fave garden in the world – the Jardin de Luxembourg. The Senate is housed in that big old crib in the background. We stumbled in there, thinking it was a museum, and were told we didn’t have the correct security clearance to...
by Deirdre Timmons | Jul 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, we went to Notre Dame. Notre Dame’s construction began in 1163 under Pope Alexandre III and King Louis VII in honor of the Virgin Mary. It’s a very pretty cathedral. Tomorrow night, we’re going to the Crazy Horse.
by Deirdre Timmons | Jul 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
Did you know much of Notre Dame’s exterior used to be painted in vivid colors? And the famous flying buttresses (which I don’t have a photo of) were installed because the original walls in the back were starting to fall outward. And then buttresses became...
by Deirdre Timmons | Jul 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
Da Louvre. A little history: Philip II built the Louvre in the 12th century as a fortress, but in 1682, Louis XIV turned it into his fabulous little palais in the city. Lots of artsy shenanigans happened there for the next 100 years until the French Revolution, when...
by Deirdre Timmons | Jul 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
Attention Chapman/Loop family. We have found your clan! They were in a bistro drinking wine and telling tales of the unknown. We joined them and figured out the cure to all evils. Number one cure: Wine, it turns out. (Though Nora and Rose have their...
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