Paris
View from our hotel room onto Rue du Temple.
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Paris
Marais neighborhood. The spire in the background is Notre Dame.
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Paris
Hotel de Ville, the Paris City Hall, two blocks from our hotel. One of my...
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Paris
View north along the Seine River to Ile de la Cite and Ile St. Louis....
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Paris
View from the Right Bank towards the Conciergerie, built in the early...
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Paris
Rue Danton in the Saint Germain neighborhood.
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Paris
Gates of the Law Courts on Boulevard du Palais.
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Paris
Notre Dame cathedral. Main doors at the front of the church.
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Paris
Notre Dame detail.
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Paris
Notre Dame detail.
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Paris
Notre Dame, viewed from the side near the Seine River.
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Paris
Notre Dame from the square in the front of the church.
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Paris
Viewed from the park in the back.
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Paris
The square in front of Notre Dame.
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Ile de la Cite neighborhood, with a street leading towards Notre Dame.
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Paris
Streets near Notre Dame.
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Paris
Streets near Notre Dame.
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St. Michel square on the Left Bank.
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Paris
These stickers are everywhere, especially near the Sorbonne University -...
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Paris
The Pantheon, which houses the tombs of many famous French historical figures...
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Paris
The Pantheon.
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Another view of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont.
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Paris
Paris from the Pantheon dome, with the Eiffel Tower and Dome Church...
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Paris
Place des Vosges in the Marais neighborhood. This was Paris' first...
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Paris
Place des Vosges.
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Marais Neighborhood.
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Paris
Arc de Triomphe.
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Paris
La Defense, the Paris high-rise business district, viewed from the Arc de...
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Paris
View from Arc de Triomphe.
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Paris
Townhouses near the Pantheon.
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Paris
View from the Arc de Triomphe. The tower on the left is Montparnasse,...
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Paris
Champs Elysees viewed from the Arc de Triomphe.
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Paris
Arc de Triomphe at sunset.
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Paris
One of the few remaining art deco metro entrances, near the Arc de Triomphe.
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Paris
The Eiffel Tower from Trocadero Gardens, across the river.
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Paris
Light show on the Eiffel Tower, runs for about ten minutes several...
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Paris
Eiffel Tower at night, beautifully lit up.
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Paris
Eiffel Tower from the stair leading up to the first of three observation levels.
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Paris
Looking up to the top from the second level.
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Versailles
View of the palace from near the train station.
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Versailles
The original part of the palace, once a hunting lodge, then expanded by Louis...
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Versailles
Palace exterior. Note the 1000+ people in line on the right, which we...
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Versailles
Chapel inside the main palace.
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Versailles
Chapel detail.
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Versailles
The King's apartments.
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Versailles
The King's apartments.
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Versailles
The King's apartments.
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Versailles
The King's apartments.
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Versailles
The King's apartments.
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Versailles
Entrance into the Hall of Mirrors, leading from the King's...
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Versailles
Hall of Mirrors.
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Versailles
Hall of Mirrors. An incredible room where the mirrors reflect the light and...
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Versailles
Hall of Mirrors.
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Versailles
Hall of Mirrors.
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Versailles
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Versailles
Back of the palace, where the gardens begin.
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Versailles
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Versailles
The gardens, viewed from the palace.
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Versailles
Versailles is an enormous territory with several palaces. This is a...
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Versailles
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Versailles
Marie Antoinette's simple peasant house.
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Versailles
Roads throughout Versailles look like this, with straight rows of trees on...
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Versailles
Town of Versailles.
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Versailles
Flower shop in Versailles.
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Versailles
Bakery with amazing pastries.
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Versailles
Unusual plants in the gardens at the town hall - they look like...
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Versailles
Versailles town hall.
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Paris
We ate a lot of these sandwiches and smoked salmon. There's about...
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Paris
French bakers are real artists with pastry. This one was in Versailles.
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Paris
More pastries. We ate two from every patisserie on this street.
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Paris
Still more pastries.
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Paris
And more pastry.
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Paris
Cheese shop on Ile St. Louis.
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Paris
Fresh seafood market in the Marais on Saturday.
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Paris
So much cheese, so little time.
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Paris
This guy was eating steak tartare - raw ground beef. I just had to sneak a...
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Paris
Streets of Ile St. Louis, one of the two small island neighborhoods in...
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Paris
Paris and the Seine lit up at night.
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Paris and the Seine at night.
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Paris
Window display of the Kenzo store.
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Paris
Nicolas Flamel was a character in one of the Harry Potter books - he...
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Louvre
View from the inside courtyard. The building in the center is the Denon wing.
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Louvre
The main courtyard with I.M. Pei's pyramids. The large pyramid is...
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Louvre
One of the halls housing Roman antiquities.
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Louvre
Roman antiquities hall.
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Louvre
Venus de Milo.
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Louvre
One of the Roman antiquities halls.
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Louvre
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Louvre
The Louvre is enormous - we spent half a day and saw only a very small part.
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Louvre
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Louvre
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Louvre
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Paris
We ate here several times, right near the Louvre. Really good pastries and...
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Paris
Saint Germain l'Auxerrois cathedral on rue de l'Amiral...
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Paris
Saint Germain l'Auxerrois.
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Paris
Detail of carvings at Saint Germain l'Auxerrois.
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Paris
Saint Germain l'Auxerrois.
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Rodin Museum
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Rodin Museum
Stairwell inside the house.
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Rodin Museum
The Thinker.
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Paris
Rue Vieille du temple in the Marais neighborhood, near the Picasso Museum and...
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Notre Dame
Stained glass windows in the cathedral.
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Notre Dame
Stained glass detail.
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Notre Dame
The north Rose Window, with original glass dating to the 13th Century.
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Notre Dame
Detail of the Rose Window.
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Notre Dame
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Notre Dame
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Notre Dame
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Notre Dame
Exterior carvings, showing St. Denis (holding his head), the first Christian...
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Notre Dame
North Tower and gargoyles.
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Notre Dame
North Tower.
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Sainte-Chapelle
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Sainte-Chapelle
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Sainte-Chapelle
Saint-Chapelle, built in 1248 by Louis IX to house relics, and used as...
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Sainte Chapelle
Ceiling detail from the lower chapel.
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Sainte-Chapelle
Stained glass in the upper chapel.
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Sainte-Chapelle
The upper chapel, used exclusively by the royal family, with the most...
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Sainte-Chapelle
The rose window, a gift from Charles VIII in 1485.
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Sainte-Chapelle
Stained glass details.
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Sainte-Chapelle
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Sainte-Chapelle
Stained glass behind the main altar.
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Paris
The bones are stacked neatly along the front, and you can see how...
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Paris
Some of the skulls are arranged in patterns like this heart.
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Paris
Catacombs.
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Paris
Bones everywhere.
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Paris
More bones.
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Paris
Paris from the Pompidou Center of Modern Art.
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Paris
View from the Pompidou Center.
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Pompidou Center
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Pompidou Center.
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Pompidou Center.
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Paris
St. Merri church and Stravinsky Fountain near the Pompidou Center.
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Paris
Stravinsky Fountain.
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Tuileries Gardens
Expansive gardens just west of the Louvre.
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Tuileries Gardens
Louvre in the background.
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Tuileries Gardens
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Paris
These signs are on gates to all of the parks. We actually saw a couple...
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Musee d'Orsay
A museum housed in a former train station, with art from 1848 to 1914,...
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Musee d'Orsay
Main hall of the museum.
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Musee d'Orsay
Stained glass detail from one of the exhibitions.
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Musee d'Orsay
The clock that originally was part of the train station, built in the late...
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Musee d'Orsay
View from the upper floors.
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Musee d'Orsay
Restaurant at the museum where we had lunch - a really stunning room.
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Musee d'Orsay
Another view of the restaurant with some of the ceiling detail.
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Musee d'Orsay
View from the roof terrace towards the Louvre.
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Musee d'Orsay
View of Montmartre and Sacre Coeur cathedral from the Orsay.
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Musee d'Orsay
Orsay ballroom.
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Musee d'Orsay
Ballroom detail.
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Musee d'Orsay
Sculptures on the square outside the museum.
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Opera
The Opera Garnier, officially opened in 1875.
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Opera
One of the grand boulevards of Paris, from the steps of the Opera Garnier.
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Paris
Dome of the Galeries Lafayette department store, in the Opera quarter.
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Paris
Galeries Lafayette department store (one of two buildings on Boulevard...
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Opera
Back of the Opera from the Galeries Lafayette department store.
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Opera
Another shot of the Opera.
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Paris
Posters protesting the labor law.
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Paris
Gardens at the Carnavalet Museum in the Marais, formerly a mansion and now a...
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Paris
Carnavalet Gardens.
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Paris
Carnavalet Museum.
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Paris
Courtyard of the Carnavalet Museum with monument to Louis XIV.
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Invalides
The Dome Church, built in the late 1600's, originally as a tomb for the...
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Invalides
View of the gilded dome.
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Invalides
View of the dome interior, painted in 1692.
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Invalides
Altar in the Dome Church.
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Invalides
Napoleon's tomb.
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Paris
Subway ticket machine.
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Paris
Courtyard of the Jacquemart-Andre Museum, a former mansion of a wealthy...
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Paris
L'Escargot Montorgueil, with large golden snails all over the sign.
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