Paris
August 2011


The Musée d'Orsay, a former train station, converted to a museum in 1986, displaying French paintings and sculptures from 1848 to 1915

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The Louvre Museum pyramid, designed by I. M. Pei, completed in 1989


Dr. J beside the pyramid at the Louvre


Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel by the gardens of Tuillieres


The Musée d'Orsay along the Seine


The Pont des Arts walking bridge across the Seine to the Institut de France, with lots of locks on the sides from romantic couples who "locked" their love



View from the Pont Neuf


View of the Seine from the end of Île de la Cité


Romance on the Pont des Arts from Île de
la Cité


Barge on the Seine River by Île de la Cité


A diver in the Seine River by Île de la Cité looking for who knows what


The Palais de Justice, now the French Court of Appeal, was the seat of the Parlement de Paris from the sixteenth century to the French Revolution



The Palais de Justice, now the French Court of Appeals


The crown on the main door to the Palais de Justice


The Concergerie prison, now a museum, with many celebrity prisonerers, including Marie Antoinette, who enjoyed a nice stay before losing her head

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