Paris: Day 6
June 16, 2022
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Above: Courses à Chantilly le 24 Avril 1836, by Pierre Vernet, in the Horse Museum inside the .
1 shows the Château from the the Parterre du Jardin de la Volière.
2 is the Vénus and Eros statue in the western part of the Château gardens.
3 to 5 show the Île d'Amour on the far west side of the Château's 280 acres.
6 to 8 show the map of the Horse Museum in the Grandes écuries, and the ringmaster who put one of the horses through it's paces in the Dome.
9 and 10 show Montmartre and Sacré Couer Basilica at the highest point in Paris. The Basilica was first proposed by the Bishop of Nantes in 1870,
following the France's defeat and Napoleon III's capture at the Battle of Sedan, in the Franco-Prussian War, six months before the Paris Commune.
He blamed the defeat of France upon the "moral decline" of France since the Revolution, and proposed a new Paris church dedicated to the
Sacred Heart of Christ. The first stone was laid in 1975 and worshipping began on the completed interior in 1891. The Bell Tower was completed in
1912, but consecration waited until after World War 1 in 1919. Considered a "minor basilica" by the Catholic church, there's nothing minor about it.
11 shows a visit to Montmartre from Belle of Beauty and the Beast, based (sort of) on Jean Cocteau's 1946 French Film, La Belle et la Bête.
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