This is the view from Raphael's apartment--I think it looks very Parisian
We started the day at Paris' largest cemetery ...over one million people are buried here. So we have found the location of all future nightmares. Me lost in a giant cemetery with no way out and my legs hurting from walking so much and probably also being chased by a million souls. Typical.
However, when there are over one million people chances are some of them have to be kind of interesting :P
We found friends such as Molier, who was right next to LaFontain
Other friendly tombs included Eugene Delecriox (Liberty Leading the People), Chopin, Jim Morrison, and Oscar Wilde (and the famous mime Marcel Merceou)
There are also many memorials, many which hold the ashes of those they are honoring of every war, resistance, rebillion, and every concentration camp.
Later in the day we walked around into and out of churches (included Francois Xavier's church-my alma mater).
We wandered around a little village part of Paris and found a newer church (built after the revolution) that was full of beautiful mosaics. The one below has churches of Paris within it
We walked past one of my favorite museums, the Rodin museum (the gates of hell, and more famously, the thinker). I saw this through the gate and had to take a picture because of how much o enjoyed it last time I was there.
The Burghers of Calais being another of his most famous:
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