1 View of Place d'Italie in the 13th from my hotel room
2 Square René Le Gall is a green oasis for walking in the heart of the 13th
3 The mosaics on the public toilets in Square René Le Gall
4 The Arc de Triomphe
5 The Russian Orthodox Cathedrale Saint Alexandre Nevsky in the 8th
6 Big Mouth Billy Bass, all the recent rage stateside, spotted in the window of a French sundries shop. The French franc was worth about 7.5 to the US dollar in…
7 Parc Monceau in the 8th was built in the 18th century by a cousin of King Louis XVI and features follies, such as this faux Roman colonnade.
8 Another surprise is this miniature Egyptian pyramid hiding among the trees
9 Flower gardens and statuary in Parc Monceau
10 The entrance to Les Halles in the 1st, with Église Saint-Eustache in the background
11 Église Saint-Eustache
12 The Palais Garnier, built by Napoleon III as the home of the Opéra de Paris
13 The Lapin Agile cabaret in Montmartre, made famous as the haunt of the likes of Picasso and Modigliani
14 Several days before the 5th International ILOG Users Meeting was to kickoff, all of the worldwide R&D engineers gathered in Paris to strategize and party on the…
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16 Christophe Jolif and Georg Sander
17 Yunpeng Zhao and his wife
18 Yunpeng Zhao, Eric Durocher, and myself
19 Night sights along the Seine
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