Our hotel was situated in the heart of Paris which gave us ample time to visit the most famous sites, such as the Louvre museum. ... I admit that at that time it was not the most exiting thing I would do while in Paris but nowadays I am very proud to say that I saw a lot of the paintings that we talk about in our lectures. ...
Denis is named after the first bishop of Paris and his companions martyred in 270; a small chapel was built over the place of their burial, which is now the site of the Abbey. ... Notre Dame in Paris is an example of a cathedral designed after the Gothic influence of St. ...
It had hundreds of spectacular rooms with marble columns, polished inlaid floors, brilliant rugs and tapestries, and painted ceilings it was a very beautiful site. ... This was a plague which, once introduced, became a scourge to the whole country, for it did not take long to spread to Paris, and thence to the armies and the provinces; so that a man of any position is now estimated entirely according to his expenditure on his table and other luxuries. ...
