This Week on TRB - The Reformed Dealer

I spent the week in Paris with the household and it was actually a tremendous journey. As you guys know I’m large on historical past and artwork and meals and stuff so I had been wanting ahead to it for a very long time. And the town didn’t disappoint. Aside from the shortage of ice cubes 🙂

Some photographs:

The Corridor of Mirrors at Versailles, which performed host to some wonderful moments within the historical past of the world. Louis XIV fascinates me, I positively wish to learn extra in regards to the period.

Right here I’m in entrance of the cathedral at Notre Dame, now present process reconstruction from the hearth a number of years again. They erected a grandstand of bleachers in entrance of it so the town can watch the restoration happen. It’s a panoramic constructing to face in entrance of. Simply epic.

You’re wanting on the partitions of the moat that used to encompass the Louvre, which was initially constructed as a fort to guard the town. The fort stood from 1190 via the sixteenth century. It didn’t develop into an artwork gallery till the tip of the 18th century. The moat and chateau hold weren’t found till 1984 when archeologists bought beneath the museum and unearthed the traditional foundations. In 2016 guests have been capable of stroll down right here and see it for the primary time. As you stroll via, you discover that lots of the bricks have a form carved into them – a sq. or a circle or a coronary heart. These are the person insignias of the totally different stone masons who labored on the undertaking, leaving their mark for us to find centuries later. Being surrounded by all these antiquities actually places our comparatively brief time on this earth into perspective.

Right here I’m once more with one among my heroes, Winston Churchill, within the Grand Palais space that hosted the The Exposition Universelle throughout this week within the yr 1900. It’s inscribed with my favourite Churchill-ism, “We Shall By no means Give up”. There’s additionally an avenue named for Normal Eisenhower close by.

Lastly, right here’s the Arc de Triomphe at nightfall, the very first thing we went to see. You possibly can stroll an inside staircase and go as much as the highest for an unbelievable view of the town. We did that relatively than going up the Eiffel Tower. It serves as a monument to those that died within the French Revolution and the world wars of the twentieth century. Napoleon commissioned its development in 1806. It wasn’t completed till 1836, fifteen years after he died.

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