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Paris‘ metro is like NYC subway: one flat fare – €1.90, gets you from A to Z regardless of distance. (NYC fare currently is $3.00, Frankfurt, which is much smaller and less lines but costs €2.75. The exchange rate is about €1 to $1.12) You insert your ticket and voila, you’re in. You don’t need it again, like, to exit.
On a Sunday evening, a few controllers were down, inside, checking our tickets. I was wondering: how? IF I’m in that means I’ve a ticket.

Coincident, I ran into them again on my way to CDG airport. I wondered out loud this time. The nice lady sat next to me said, “you’re suppose to keep the ticket until you exit.”
Learned one more thing.
I then said, “so odd, this is my second time seeing ticket checkers. The first one was last Sunday.”
She said, “the city needs money.”
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Bourse vaste old stock exchange, and since 2000 known as Euronext Paris. It has restaurants on site, such as the Spoon.

Biblothèque Nationale @ 58 rue de Richelieu, 75002 Paris is their old national library 国家图书馆, now relocated to BnF. The photo below on the right is from here.

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Seen on the Avenue de l’Opéra in Paris. This term or demand isn’t new. If France is out, the EU is over.
Being the big brother isn’t easy, and absorbing their eastern brothers and sisters isn’t easy. Maybe they over extended themselves? Forming the EU isn’t easy either.
German’s two wars had dethroned British dominance in the world. Is the Brexit a payback to the Germans?
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Le théâtre musée des Capucines
39 Boulevard des Capucines
75002 Paris, France
My goodness, perfume becomes a hot commodity for the Asians? They don’t even have a habit of using it. The shop at Fragonard Perfume is packed like a refugee camp. Mostly are Indians but a few signs in the small yard are in Chinese only … I’m embarrassed.

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The complex of Hôtel national des Invalides – the National Residence of the Invalids is huge. Again, we walked in from the north front, crossing Seine on the Pont Alexandre III (Alexandre III Bridge) from the Grand Palais. Avenue du Maréchal Gallieni leads directly to the complex from Seine. Eiffel Tower can be seen on the right.

The complex has a few sections: the Musée de l’Armée, the military museum of the Army; the Musée des Plans-Reliefs, military models; Musée d’Histoire Contemporaine, contemporary military history (WW II, etc.), and as well as the Dôme des Invalides on the southern side.
The northern facade of the Cour d’honneur – Court of Honor has a relief 浮雕 of Louis XIV at the top. The courtyard

Musée de l’Armée, the military museum of the Army. Cannons and Saint-Louis-des-Invalides Cathedral.

… and the Dôme des Invalides, where Napoleon resides:


The tomb of Marshal Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch (1851 – 1929) is also there. He was France’s best general during the World War I. He was appointed “Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies” in spring 1918, seven months later, the war was over.
Grant’s Tomb in NY.
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