Paris 48.85322° N, 2.33084° E.
A lot of walking and learning to mistrust google maps.
Enter the address and we ended up in some business industrial areas.
We did manage to escape back to civilisation and discover a pretty big church - Eglise St Eutache.
They used to build them big back then. Overwhelming space and sense of power. Got to impress on the faithful that power and fear. And architecture can do that.
What an illiterate powerless person felt when they walked in to these places god only knows. Either fear or awe. Before Bush there was another version of shock and awe.
Kate and I got over the shock and awe and had a lovely afternoon walk around the old royal palace. Dinner in our street which is proving to be a great street with a mix of food, quality retail and apartments. At dinner I looked down the street and there stuffing up the view was the Paris version of Crown at Barangaroo. An office block staring down the old street.
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| Eglise St Eutache |
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| the view from the restaurant - a little amour in the lane. |
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| The Montparnasse Tower now 50yrs old. It broke the tradition of not building high rise that would be visible from old Paris |
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| Our piece of Paris for a few days |
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