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This was Bastille Day last year, when I was lucky enough to be right there on the Champ de Mars—with several hundred thousand other lucky folks, but still . . . |
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It was spectacular—and as much as I don't like crowds, I'd do it again (might get there a bit earlier though). [Linking back to Skywatch Friday.] |
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| The city of Paris has been run from this spot since 1357. This city hall, the Hôtel de Ville, was begun in 1533 and has been added onto over the centuries. It's one of my favorite Paris buildings, but there's so much going on here that I like to focus on one detail or another—like the allegorical statuary around the clock . . . |
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| or one of the elaborately gated entries. [I'm linking back to Our World Tuesday.] |
