Stop me if you have seen this before

But don't worry, you haven't.

It was a second consecutive pleasant day, I began the day again with a walk off towards the tower. For a second day in a row I didn't actually get anywhere near the tower.

Here's an early morning view of quintessential Paris, the Seine spreading to pass on both side of Ile Saint Louis, photographed from Pont d'Arcole, a bridge from Ile de la Cite to the right bank at Hotel de Ville.Pretty, isn't it?

Here is my construction update for any readers who love Paris. Whatever it was that they did to Les Halles has finally been declared a failure. The underground shopping mall is safe but the above ground park has been torn completely apart with something completely different under construction.Stay tuned.

What my post title refers to is that I spent the rest of the morning going inside old churches, four in all. It seems like there has been a lot of this and there has. But it isn't something anyone has seen before. Each and every one of these old churches is astonishing.

First up is the church behind this statue next to Les Halles, Saint Eustache.The church is quite famous for its intact and still in use pipe organ.Here's Saint Roch, closed circuit to last year's fellow travelers, the guy with the dogs who was begging for money for food for the dogs was not at the church this morning.Inside the church was, you have heard this one before, astonishing.

That's "Saint Denis preaching to the Gauls".The 13th century Saint Severin, astonishing.The very ancient and very tiny Saint Julien le Pauvre.This afternoon we headed over to Les Invalides to see the Musée de l’Armée. Wireless has seen it and advised that there was lots of good stuff. She understated.

The Museum of the Army might be the most complete museum any time any place any subject. The coverage of the subject is exhaustive, exhaustive in the extreme.

France has been a country for a long time, France has had an army for a long time, France's army has been involved in nearly every major European conflict shaping the history of the continent. From the very earliest days they kept examples of EVERYTHING.

Cannons. These are from the 17th century.But also, medieval armor, every stage of the development of swords and firearms, uniforms, every possible thing you can imagine relating to the role of the army beginning in about the 13th century and leading right up to today.

It is amazing. I will be back there some day for more. There was way, way too much to try to digest in a single setting.

So here's another shot of where we are staying, this time with the courtyard open. Remember that this house dates from the 16th century. Tourists walking by were stopping to take photos and to wander inside as much as they dared.I am guessing that that is Glenn's BMW.

For last year's fellow travelers, our boulangerie.It is next to Saint Roch. I passed it before going in the church and got such good feelings that I went back after going inside the church to get a picture of the bakery.

LATE EDIT: I went out to the square in front of the big church. The photograph available when the sun is out and the sky is blue is quite a bit more attractive than the photograph against grey sky.