We decided today to go and visit the Saint Chapelle, and of course we were late. So we ended up visiting the Pantheon.
Josh was very excited since I explained to him the pendulum experiment (have you read "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco? it's all there..."the only stable place in the cosmos, the only redemption to the damnation of the panta rei" .. and it's wonderful!) and he wanted to see the replica that is still hanging from the top of the dome.
Then we went to visit the Crypt, with all the great men, buried there by their grateful homeland": Voltaire, JJ Rousseau, Emile Zola, even Louis Braille.
The first surprise was a fresh rose, on Victor Hugo's monumental grave. Someone still loves him, someone still cares about him.
The second surprise was to find out that Marie Curie was only the second woman to be buried there. Only two? Come on, what about "Egalite' "? I hope you guys are working on it.
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