Saturday, July 30, 2011

To market....to market while Francois sleeps

Maubert and Monge, 5 éme, Latin Quarter - good small markets, very good quality.   Monge is charming and located on a lovely small place.   Its vendors offer fresh salad greens, meats, cheeses, pain d’épices, fish.  (This is near the rue Mouffetard Market-Street too.)

Later this morning Francois will visit Les Invalides (this is a working day for him) officially known as L'Hôtel national des Invalides (The National Residence of the Invalids), is a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans, the building's original purpose. The buildings house the Musée de l'Armée, the military museum of the Army of France, the Musée des Plans-Reliefs, and the Musée d'Histoire Contemporaine, as well as the burial site for some of France's war heroes, notably Napoleon Bonaparte. I plan on visiting this sector next week.