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All You Ever Wanted To Know About Saint Denis - Jacqueline Donnelly - Beheaded for his Christian missionary zeal in the 3rd century, legend has it that Saint Denis picked up his head and marched up what is now Montmartre (Mount of Martyrs). But wait, there is much more...

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Spinning Foucault's Pendulum at the Panthéon - Françoise Giovannangeli - In 1855 Foucault's pendulum proved the Earth turned about the Centre National des Arts et Métiers in the 3rd arrondissement. Now it rotates about the Panthéon in the 5th.

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Ahoy! The Seaside at Trocadéro - Richard Erickson first thought there wasn't much to the place, and never went past the door. Then one day he wandered all the way in... and Wow!

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French History - November - UNESCO Headquarters established in Paris (1946); Musée du Louvre opens its doors (1793); Births: Marie Antoinnette (1755), Albert Camus (1913), Rodin (1840), Voltaire (1694), Charles de Gaulle (1890), Jacques Chirac (1932).

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Image of the Month; Jardin des Tuileries - Statues abound in this garden between the Place de la Concorde, and the Louvre. Most have been there for a century or two, but some pose for just an afternoon. Rue de Rivoli and the Ferris Wheel of the Foire de Trône in the background; disbelieving child and mime in the foreground.
Copyright (c) 1996 Norman Barth

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