Walking Tour: Backstreets of the Latin Quarter

Latin Quarter: an area in the 5th and parts of the 6th arrondissement.  It is situated on the left bank of the Seine, around the Sorbonne University.

My tour guide was a professor from NYU and I think that I'm going to take her class this semester, Paris Monuments and Political Power in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

Rood screen in the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont.  It divided that seating between the congregational space and the altar space. 

This is where the French Riots of May 1968 occurred. 

The Museum of the Middle Ages.  It's built over the remains of a Roman bath and used to be a monastery.

Church of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont. St. Genevieve is buried here. The pope visited this church last weekend when he was in Paris.

View outside the Pantheon.  That's the Eiffel Tower way in the background.

The Pantheon.

And the Pantheon again with a view of the dome.

Me! 

Roman theater with old men playing boules (kind of like bocce ball)

Ernest Hemingway's apartment.

Setting for Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. It's changed a little bit since he wrote it. (Setting: A country road. A tree.)

A french protest that we encountered on our tour. 

Remains of Philippe-Auguste's wall. It used to mark the boundaries of Paris.

One other thing, not at all related to my walking tour.  I ate roasted chicken and thyme flavored Lays potato chips today and they were amazing.  They should sell them in the US. 

I have my first French test tomorrow and a boat ride on the Seine in the afternoon.  And then the weekend!