Having our usual breakfast.
Taking le Metro.
After having lunch (sorry no pictures of that!), we met for a French Revolution Walking Tour in Paris.
The guy in the middle was our guide, Chris.
At the entrance to L'Hotel des Invalides, originally built as a military hospital and also used to store ammunition. The French people stormed this building to find the ammo, but didn't find any gun powder. This is why they paraded back to the Bastille, which did have gun powder!
L'Assemblee Nationale: where the French parliament is, I believe.
The back of L'Assemblee Nationale. What we didn't take a picture of is the bridge from which this picture was taken; it was constructed with bricks from the Bastille, which no longer stands.
La Place de la Condorde. This was the site of over 2,000 executions by guillotine during the 'reign of terror' of the French Revolution. Extremists killed anybody who expressed any disagreement with their agenda. Even wives who cried when their husbands were executed were then executed, just because they shouldn't have cared if a traitor was being killed.
Le Jardin de Tuileries. Off Concorde Plaza.
A view of Le Seine.
See that little black thing sticking up in the background? That's the Eiffel Tower!
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