I'm making my way through a book on walking tours of Paris. Earlier this week was Montmartre (will post on this sometime soon). Today, was the neighborhood around the Bastille, like many of the monuments in Paris, phallic shaped.

The enormous (and I'm told astounding) new Opera house sits on the southeast corner of the circle, the Port de l'Arsenal (a canal that feeds into the Seine) comes into the Bastille from the south, and my neighborhood of le Marais to the west.

Nothing amazing to report ... the neighborhood didn't have the same kind of spectacular architecture I've seen elsewhere, many of the streets were rundown or filled with shops that sold awful fashion statements. But there were some visual finds.

 
On Rue de Lappe, once the center of Parisian dancehalls.

 
Sifting through the leftovers from the Place d'Aligre market.

 
France is having elections, this appeared an ode to Chirac.

 
Looking down the Passage du Chantier.

 

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