Fri 26 Sep 2008
Paris Day Two – Notre Dame
Posted by Kevin under Life
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It’s about five in the evening on Friday. Anna is taking a nap and I am answering emails and playing with videos. Early this morning, we took the metro to Notre Dame. I am typically bored at cathedrals but Notre Dame was amazing. The history and the iconography of the building was very interesting. Most interesting factoid: across the middle horizon of the building are statues of the 27 kings of Judah. During the French revolution, the revolutionaries mistook the kings as French kings of old and, in grand revolutionary style, beheaded the statues. A local school teacher, secretly collected the heads and buried them in his back yard. In 1977, nearly 200 years later, an excavation unearthed the heads. A video and few pictures below and more here.






September 27th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Looks lovely so far……..heading for beer soon?
September 28th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Anna: that crepe looks soooo good. Have one for me!