The Musée d'Orsay, a former train station, converted to a museum in 1986, displaying French paintings and sculptures from 1848 to 1915
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Touch a number to see a picture
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The Louvre Museum pyramid, designed by I. M. Pei, completed in 1989
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Dr. J beside the pyramid at the Louvre
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Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel by the gardens of Tuillieres
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The Musée d'Orsay along the Seine
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The Pont des Arts walking bridge across the Seine to the Institut de France, with lots of locks on the sides from romantic couples who "locked" their love
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View from the Pont Neuf
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View of the Seine from the end of Île de la Cité
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Romance on the Pont des Arts from Île de
la Cité
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Barge on the Seine River by Île de la Cité
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A diver in the Seine River by Île de la Cité looking for who knows what
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The Palais de Justice, now the French Court of Appeal, was the seat of the Parlement de Paris from the sixteenth century to the French Revolution
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The Palais de Justice, now the French Court of Appeals
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The crown on the main door to the Palais de Justice
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The Concergerie prison, now a museum, with many celebrity prisonerers, including Marie Antoinette, who enjoyed a nice stay before losing her head
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