So, today was my first full day in Paris. I was going to visit the Louvre but found out it was closed on Tuesdays. Bah. So, instead I waundered over to Notre Dame, St. Chapelle and the Concergerie. It was actually quite a lot of fun. Last time I was here they were cleaning Notre Dame so the facade couldn't really be seen, this time it was beautiful, it would have been better without the rain, but what can you do? The Concergerie was next on my trek, it was a palance then a prison during the revolutionary time in France. Marie Antoinette spent a coupld of months there before being beheaded, and Robespierre was there for a few hours before his sentence was carried out. It is actually a rather neat building. Next was St Chappelle. The church itself was gorgeous, the line wasn't really the same in that regard. I stood in line for almost 2 hours before getting in. Thankfully there was a coupld of Australians in front of me, they were quite interesting.
After St Chappelle, I strolled over by the Sorbonne and other left bank shops, as the Australians had told me there were good book stores and sales there. Gibert Joseph must love me now, I spenmt 112.50 euros or $145 on philosophy books. I couldn't help myself. I loaded up on Foucault, Deleuze's What is Philosophy?, a couple by Irigaray and Kristeva's Black Sun. Some of these I don't have in English, but most I do. I ended up with 9 books. Hooray! Now to just mail them home.
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