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Paris Sept (7)
Paris for the Holidays features the images of Mary Flock Lempa
Napoleon Bonaparte (Les Invalides)
Opéra Garnier (9th arrondissement)
Fountain of River Commerce and Navigation (Place de la Concorde)
Chez Denise (Les Halles)
Henri Matisse (French Painter)
Luxembourg Gardens (6th arrondissement )
Grande Arche de la Defense
Paris Cinq (5)
Paris for the Holidays features the images of Mary Flock Lempa
Le Bassin d’Apollon (Palace of Versailles)
Trafalgar Square (London)
Champs-Élysées Clemenceau Paris Metro (Georges Clemenceau)
Fontaine des Innocents (Les Halles)
Grave of Marquis De Lafayette (Picpus Cemetery)
Chaïm Soutine (Musée de l’Orangerie)
Le Grenier à Pain Abbesses (Montmartre Boulangerie)
Paris Nuef (9)
Paris for the Holidays features the images of Mary Flock Lempa
Johannes Vermeer (Dutch Painter)
Musée de Cluny (National Museum of the Middle Ages)
François I (King of France)
Severed Heads from Gallery of Kings (of Judah) from Notre-Dame de Paris (Cluny Museum)
Place de Clichy, Paris Metro (Montmartre)
Les Deux Magots (Saint-Germain-des-Prés)
Frédéric Chopin (Cimetière du Père-Lachaise)
Paris Huit (8)
Paris for the Holidays features the images of Mary Flock Lempa
Fontaine Saint-Michel
Coco Chanel
Théodore Géricault
Pope John Paul
Oscar Wilde
Pantheon
Edith Piaf
Marie De Medicis Fountain
Jardin du Luxembourg in the 6th arrondissement
–Polyphemus (a giant Cyclopes described in Homer’s Odyssey)
-discovers the lovers Acis, a Shepard and Galatea, a “Nereid” (Sea Nymph)
-the jealous Cyclops Polyphemus kills Acis (by hurling a huge boulder)
-whereby Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit
The Medici Queens
Catherine de’ Medici
Born: April 13, 1519, Florence, Italy
Widow of Henry II, Mother of Francis II and Charles IX
Died: January 5, 1589, Château Royal de Blois, Blois, France
(buried at St. Denis Basilica, Paris)
Tuieries Palace Built in 1564 (Tuileries Garden)
Marie de’ Medici
Born: April 26, 1575, Pitti Palace, Florence, Italy
Marie de Medici‘s uncle married the granddaughter of French queen Catherine de Medici
Widow of King Henry IV, Mother of Louis XIII
(she ended being banished from the country by her son, Louis XIII)
Died: July 3, 1642, in poverty and exile, in Cologne, Germany
where her remains were held for a year after her death until her debts were paid
(buried at St. Denis Basilica, Paris)
Luxembourg Palace created beginning in 1612 (Luxembourg Garden)
In 1622–24 the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens decorated its galleries with 21 paintings, portraying the events of her life, that rank among his finest work
Paris for the Holidays 