Pantheon

Today we had to come home, but before doing so, we took the metro to the Jardins de Luxembourg, had a look around there and the area around the Quartier Latin. We went to the Pantheon, just as the rain came on heavily.
D and S were impressed by Foucault's pendulum and by the crypts of the great and the good, who are buried there. Among those buried in its necropolis are Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Jean Moulin, Marie Sk?odowska-Curie, Louis Braille, Jean Jaurès and Soufflot, its architect.
We had to return to the apartment to pick up our luggage to return, all too soon, to the airport. I have so many photos, that it has been hard to know which ones to post, but I have decided to record the visit as a journal, rather than a record of the best images. Some of my favourites are actually of people walking along the tree-lined avenues, with the beautiful chestnut trees in flower, but there have not been days enough to post them. The Jardin des Tuileries and the Pont Alexandre Trois are always a delight, as are the windows of the Galeries Lafayette, where I snapped the best display of shoes ever.
Oh well, we are saving up to do it again next year!