| There was a general strike scheduled for Thursday. The morning news programs were covering it. Transportation was affected, but not the Metro. The RER trains, however, were running fewer trains. |
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| What's different about this keyboard? It's not QWERTY, it's AZERTY. |
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| We dropped off our luggage at the Gare du Nord and got a little breakfast pastry at this little stand. Ten years ago I got a tuna sandwich here. |
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| Armed French soldiers walking around the station. |
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| The funicular was closed for repairs on Thursday morning. We had to climb over 250 steps up to the top of Montmartre. |
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| We got little souvenirs from this artist. |
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| *DUPLICATE PHOTO WARNING* Here is the Moulin Rouge, but Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor were nowhere to be found. |
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| This is the part of town with some adult-type businesses. This is the supermarket of erotica. And there's a little love shop too. |
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| *DUPLICATE PHOTO WARNING* There was a large French flag hanging from the Arc de Triomphe. It might have had something to do with the grève. |
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| A couple of shops on the Champs-Élysées, Cartier and Montblanc. |
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| Here is the little restaurant the I sat outside with the old people in 1999 and drank Coca-Cola. |
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| I don't know why the Lebanese flags were alongside the French Tricolore. I know that Lebanon was under French control for a while in the first half of the 20th century and that France still has some influence there. |
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| Put 'em up, put 'em up! Which one of you first? I can fight you both together if you want. I can fight you with one paw tied behind my back. I can fight you standing on one foot. I can fight you with my eyes closed. |
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| *DUPLICATE PHOTO WARNING* The entrance to the catacombs is still inconspicuous. |
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| There was a section of the public access that was closed when I was here in 2005 that is now open. |
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| These carvings were made by a quarry inspector called Décure. |
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| They represent the Port-Mahon Palace on Minorca and were sculpted from memory. |
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| He did his work from 1777 to 1782. |
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| Wells called quarry foot baths were built by workers during reinforcement projects, providing a way to reach the ground water level. |
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| *DUPLICATE PHOTO WARNING* Were getting closer to the dead people. |
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| *DUPLICATE PHOTO WARNING* That sign still says something about this being the empire of the dead. |
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| *DUPLICATE PHOTO WARNING* I still can't read this. |
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| Bones!!! |
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| When you've seen some bones you've seen them all. |
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| So I guess I've seen them all. |
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| *DUPLICATE PHOTO WARNING* I still can't read this one either. Try using Babelfish to get a rough translation. |
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| *DUPLICATE PHOTO WARNING* It is dimly lit down there. I had a hard time getting decent photos other than in better lit areas like this. |
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| Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones. |
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| Just think about the person who once had this skull when they were alive. Was he wealthy? Was he poor? Was he even a he? |
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| It looks like they are all staring at me. |
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| *DUPLICATE PHOTO WARNING* And here we are at the exit. There were a group of American students touring the caves today. |
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