Today we did a walking architecture tour of the Marais district and then went to two museums in the district, The Carnavalet and the Picasso museum.
Some of the sites we saw on our architectural walk:
Church of St. Gervais & St. Protais, a French Baroque style building completed in the span of 1616-1657.
Remnants of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris in the time of Phillip Auguste, 1190.
The Hotel de Sens, one of three excellently preserved medieval Gothic mansions left in Paris. We saw one of the others, the Hotel de Cluny, on our second day in Paris when we visited the Museum of Medieval Art which is housed in the Cluny and the old Roman Baths.
Tonight some students are going for a cruise on the Seine on one of the Batoboats. Bateau is the French word for boat. As Steve Martin used to say, "They have a different word for everything!."
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