Above: From the Pont des Art bridge, a view of the Seine River, Île de la Cité and the Pont Neuf on the left of the island.
1 to 4 are statues of famous Frenchmen on the Louvre ... Suger, a abbot and statesman, 1081-1151; Turgot, economist and statesman, 1727-1781;
Rousseau, popular philsopher 1712-1778 and Colbert, 1619-1683, the First Minister of State and reportedly a relative of comedian Stephen Colbert.
6 is from walking along the Seine River.
7 to 9 show the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, closed after the fire in 2019 ... they've already spent over $200 million euros in shoring things up ...
the restoration could cost over 1 billion euros. Macron wants it done by the 2024 Paris Olympics, but what I read, estimates are 10-15 years.
10 ... at the end of Île de la Cité behind Notre-Dame, the Memorial Des Martyrs De La Deportation, the French people taken by the Nazis for
various extermination camps.
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