The family just completed a visit to Paris where we enjoyed some of the local sites including a tour of # 6 in this Place des Vosges in Paris. Author Victor Hugo made his home here for 16 years. I had just finished Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame while on this visit. 

A number of boats line The Seine. Many appear to be permanent residences. 

On one of our lengthy walks we came across the Curie Institute. The museum featured the work of Drs. Marie and Pierre Curie as well as their daughter and son-in-law. This photograph shows their laboratory, restored and decontaminated. Their notebooks, however, are not on view since they remain radioactive! Coming across this find and visiting here was like a pilgrimage for me. I could barely contain my excitement and even purchased a biography in French.