Taking in some sites off of the beaten path...

This is Friday morning, Echo & I are taking a day's rest from our travels as we are both puny with some bug.  Hopefully, we will feel like going out to explore some more later today.
We began yesterday at a neighborhood market which was fun and provided a great variety of merchants.  Then off to look at some more sites.  The cathedrals are so numerous and ornate, it seems like there is one on every corner, and each of them has a particular story.

Then we visited the the Pantheon.  Originally built to be a church, but changed to receive the remains of great Frenchmen, including Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo.Also the location of Focault's pendulum.....no, this is not the one at the Children's Museum, this is the original.

We then made a quick pass through the Louvre.  The size of the Louvre is staggering.....art historians could study in the Louvre for years.  We then began strolling the Champ-Elysees with the gardens and Concorde, French White House, American Embassy with Arc de Triomphe at the end......all very impressive.

We then went to Pere Lachaise Cemetary.....a very old and very famous cemetary.  It was sad to see the levels of vandalism and disrepair on 200 year old tombs.

We have walked so many miles and ridden so many Metros, and are still just scratching the surface of what this amazing city has to offer.  I understand the Paris mystique and how she can pull you back again and again,