We checked out of the hotel, but left our luggage at the desk for the morning.
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| Paris Baguette Boulangerie-Patisserie breakfast spot |
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| Elysées Montmartre Theatre (1807 as a ballroom) is where dancer Valentin le Desosse performed the Dance de la Quadrille that he created, and became known as the French CanCan (KSS) |
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| Looking up Butte Montmartre at La Basilique du Sacré-Cœur/ Sacred Heart Basilica (1875-1914), designed by Paul Abadie |
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| Funiculaire de Montmartre (1900, rebuilt in 1935 and 1991), lower station (KSS) |
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| Funicular cars (KSS) |
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| Wedding photography of the Chinese (KSS) |
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| Alexandre Legetil and Hubert Rohault de Fleury made a vow in 1870 that if Paris was spared from Prussian invasion, they would build a church; it was built on a foundation of 83 pillars because the hill was honeycombed with gypsum mines (KSS) |
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| Built in Roman-Byzantine style, Sacré-Cœur was the second highest point built after the Eiffel Tower; the statue of Christ holds his Sacred Heart (KSS) |
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| The mosaic (1912-1922) over the altar was created by Luc Olivier Merson and Marcel Magne |
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| Left side of the mosaic with the apostles above and French figures below, including Native Americans and others from the colonies (KSS) |
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| Right side of mosaic with saints above and French figures below (KSS) |
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| Statue of St-Thérèse of Lisieux (KSS) |
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| Plaque showing where 13 bombs landed in a line near the basilica on 4/21/1944 while worshipers were praying, and no one was killed (KSS) |
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| Marble and mosaics on a chapel rail (KSS) |
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| A model of the Basilica (KSS) |
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| Mosaics of two Stations of the Cross |
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| Chapel of the Blessed Virgin (KSS) |
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| Tamiko rubbing the foot of St Peter (KSS) |
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| One of two silver statues, this one of the Sacred Heart of Christ (1912) by Eugène Benet (KSS) |
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| Chapel of St Joan of Arc (KSS) |
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| Central dome of Sacré-Cœur (KSS) |
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| The view from Sacré-Cœur (KSS) |
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| A view of Centre Georges Pompidou, with its color-coded systems where white is ventilation, blue is climate control, red is safety, yellow is electrical, and green is plumbing (KSS) |
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| Statue of Jean François de la Barre (2001?) of a citizen who refused to doff his hat when a religious procession passed in Abbeville in 1765, and was beheaded and burned with his copy of Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary; this locale has become a meeting place for atheists (KSS) |
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| Église St-Pierre-de-Montmartre/ Church of St Peter in Montmartre (1147), once part of a Benedictine Abbey (KSS) |
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| Modern stained glass window in the Church of St Peter |
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| Notre Dame de Montmartre/Our Lady of Montmartre, who is said to have spared the church from the 13 bombs that landed between it and Sacré-Cœur (KSS) |
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| St Denis, the first bishop of Paris; it was on Montmartre where he was beheaded by Roman soldiers, and he picked up his head to walk three miles before dying, supposedly indicating where he wanted to be buried, at a spot where they later built the Benedictine Abbey of St Denis (KSS) |
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| Tamiko rubbing the foot of another St Peter (KSS) |
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| The gray-colored pillar on the right may be from a Roman temple originally in this site (KSS) |
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| The tombstone of Adelaide, the wife of Louis VI; she was an abbess here until she was sent to the guillotine during the French Revolution (KSS) |
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| Cabaret de Patachou at #13 Rue du Mont-Cenis, where Edith Piaf perhaps sang La Vie en Rose (KSS) |
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