Paris Pockets Packed with History
In his grand tome entitled Paris, Edward Rutherfurd describes the site on the Left Bank where the Romans established their town, named Lutetia, as “a low, flat hillock, like a table overlooking the water”. Here on this gentle rise of land, they had laid out their town, building a large forum and “the main temple covering […]
Monday October 21st, 2013 in , Catherine de Medicis, Le Louvre, Notre Dame, Paris, River Seine, Sorbonne, Tuileries | No Comments »