Tagged With "Invalides"

Great pics. We were there this past August and were very impressed with the Eiffel Tower. It was truly fantastic accomplishment and the views are spectacular. The day we were there we had pre-purchased our tickets online, but did not use them. The morning of our scheduled day it was pouring down rain and we were tired, so we stayed in bed. Later in the morning the skies cleared and we went over to the tower. Since we missed our time we had to purchase another two tickets. it was still worth...

Thanks, Pheymont. Even we who imagine we know the city have gotten a whole new perspective. Point of view is everything! And, having been up the tower once long ago, I'm again struck by how much higher it seems looking down than it appears from the below or from a distance.

Thanks! Certainly true also about how different it can appear at different angles from below, as in Dr. Fumblefinger's blog here the other day!

Gumbo was visiting Paris' Les Invalides, home to Napoleon Bonaparte's tomb and the interesting Army Museum.

Well, I almost said Les Invalides, then saw it in the tags. Is that Ste-Chapelle between Notre Dame and the Louvre?

Yes, it certainly is (the pierced tower). And in the lower right foreground, a corner of the roof of the Grand Palais.

I had friends who lived across the road from the Grand Palais and recognized the roof, but couldn't remember the name. I guess after 48 years some blanks are understandable.

Think of them as opportunities for refill!

That guy Napoleon had a lot of sins to answer for. He wanted total domination of Europe - like Adolph Hitler - but the French regard him as a hero. Unlike his more modern 20th Century counterpart. So I suppose your morals depend on whether you're on the winning side. But as we know - no one wins. Some "Red Herrings" thrown in to put us off the scent - but an interesting chase DrF. Good one !

Taken with 18x telephoto lens from the top of the Arc de Triomphe, this shot squeezes in a lot of familiar Paris, with even more suggested here and there in the middl

When the Eiffel Tower was built, as the centerpiece of Paris’ 1889 Universal Exposition, not everyone loved it. The writer Guy de Maupassant mocked it as a "high and skinny pyramid of iron ladders."