{"id":723,"date":"2026-06-09T11:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/?p=723"},"modified":"2026-06-09T11:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:09:13","slug":"paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Sunday, I took my students to Paris to give them sort of an overview (it\u2019s only an hour from Lille, so it\u2019s a quick day trip).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We started the day by going up Montmartre and Sacr\u00e9 Coeur, which are the highest points in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sacr\u00e9 Coeur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The mosaics in the church are incredible<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mini mosaics that go around the church with the stations of the cross <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Memorial to Joan of Ark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Because Montmartre is the highest point in Paris it was a good place to have windmills-here is one of them <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View from the front of Sacr\u00e9 Coeur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There is a little spot off to the side (that many people don\u2019t know about) where you can get a nice view of Eiffel Tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then we headed off to the Eiffel Tower and to walk along the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Standing in the Jardin des Tuileries you can see Place de la Concorde (with the obelisk-this is where the guillotine was during the French Revolution) and the Arc de Triomphe behind it<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then I headed to Sainte-Chapelle (possibly controversial opinion: if you only go to one church in Paris this is the one-the stained glass will quite literally take your breath away and the pictures do not do it justice).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then I went into La Conciergerie, which was originally a palace and then (ironically) became a prison during the French Revolution that most notably housed Marie-Antoinette<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is believed to be the site of Marie-Antoinette\u2019s cell and is now a memorial to her<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is the courtyard the women were allowed in (only the women were allowed outside time) and the little fountain to the right is where they could clean up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ended the day with a cr\u00eape at Notre Dame<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Sunday, I took my students to Paris to give them sort of an overview (it\u2019s only an hour from Lille, so it\u2019s a quick day trip). We started the day by going up Montmartre and Sacr\u00e9 Coeur, which are the highest points in Paris. Then we headed off to the Eiffel Tower and to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}