This is it...the last day in Paris. OK, technically tomorrow is the last day, but today was my last sightseeing day. I didn't really have a plan when I headed out. I had a number of things in mind. I was tired of museums, but I also thought I might go the Musee D'Orsay or the Rodin. I was getting tired of churches, but I had a few more I wanted to see. And I needed to do some shopping. I especially wanted to see the markets on Rue Cler. I decided to go to ...

As I mentioned, yesterday was a loooong day. I stated by taking the metro to the suburb of St. Denis to see the St. Denis Basillica. This were all but 3 kings of France are buried (kinda, sorta.) Prior to the Revolution (yes, every story seems to involve the Revolution), all the kings , queens, etc are buried there in the church, with effigies on top of their burial places. During the revolution, the people remove the bodies and put them all into a common pit...

I forgot the whole point of calling the entry "roaming the streets." many of the pics associated with today have no significant meaning; they are just things I saw as I walked.

For the two days in Meuse, none of the house pictures have any meaning; I just thought you'd like to see what houses look like. All the churches are from the ancestor's villages. some of the cemetery pics are tombstones of family names (if they are zoomed in on the writing) others are just to show you what the cemeteries are like. I don't know if all the flowers are because of All Saints Day (or Armistice Day) or if they are always like that.