Locks are just as popular in the French city of love as in the Italian city of love. This one is really different.

A view of a popular bridge over the Seine for displaying your love in locks. Both sides are covered like this.

One last view of "Our Lady"

Typical Parisian building with a bistro below on a summer's evening, not quite midnight, but getting close.

A view along the Seine after the storm.

This is The Hotel De Ville, or the Mayors office. When it was first constructed it was a little wooden shack on stilts in the middle of a marsh. Paris was originally marsh land. Later this main edifice was built and then the two side wings were added. Before the guillotine was established as a means of punishment or justice, the guilty were executed to the public's enjoyment on this square for hundreds of years. This usually meant an old fashion beheading with an ax, or the other favorite, tied-and quartered.  In the later case, arms and legs were tied to four horses who were whipped and you died once one or all of your limbs were ripped off. I think I would have chosen to be beheaded.

During the revolution, the royals were beheaded. This was something new for the people. After the a royal was beheaded, the people would dip their handkerchiefs or piece of clothe in the blood of the royal and drink it. The effect - all people now had royal blood flowing through their veins.