Gare Montparnasse



The Gare Montparnasse is one of the six large terminus train stations of Paris, located in the Montparnasse area.

The original station opened in 1840. A second station was built between 1848 and 1852.

The Gare Montparnasse is serving Brittany and the entire Atlantic seaboard all the way to the Spanish border. Along with the local metro, suburban and national train lines this station is always brim full with activity.

Pont Mirabeau



Under the Mirabeau bridge flows the Seine
And all our loves
Why does it make so plain
That any joy must always follow pain

Let the night come the hour sound clear
The days all pass I’m still here

Our hands intertwined let’s stay face to face
While far below
The bridge of our arms strays
The languid wave of each endless gaze

Let the night come the hour sound clear
The days all pass I’m still here

Our love drifts away like these waters flow
Love drifts away
And our lives are so slow
With Hope more violent than we could know

Let the night come the hour sound clear
The days all pass I’m still here.

The days and weeks pass in a ceaseless train
But no past time
Or past love comes again
Under the Mirabeau bridge flows the Seine

Let the night come the hour sound clear
The days all pass I’m still here.

The Mirabeau bridge by Guillaume Apollinaire (Translation by John Irons)

Statue de la Liberté



Two replicas of the Statue of Liberty are found in Paris, France. One stands in the Jardin du Luxembourg. Another, larger, one is near the Grenelle Bridge on the Ile des Cygnes, an island in the river Seine. Dedicated on November 15, 1889, it looks towards the Atlantic Ocean and hence towards its «larger sister» in New York Harbor, which had been erected three years earlier.