The Pantheon looms just blocks to the left of Hotel Moderne and we walked up the street to see exactly what it was. The Pantheon was originally built as a church dedicated to St. Genevieve, but is more famous as the burial place of Alexander Dumas, Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Emile Zola, and Louis Braille. The inscription above the entrance reads ...aux hommes la patrie reconnaissante...or, for great men the grateful nation.... There was a big entrance fee and we decided against it, turned around, and a brilliant Eiffel Tower stood out in front of us, down a street, about a two or three miles away as the crow flies.

Back to the Rue des Ecoles and past the Sorbonne University of Paris and the Musee de Cluny right across the street. A brief wander over to see exactly what this stunning medieval building was and into the courtyard. The Parisian residence of the Cluny abbots originally stood on this site in the 13th century until replaced by Jacques d'Amboise, Abbott of Cluny in Burgandy in the late 15th century. It is stunning and has a collection of Middle Ages tapestries and other arts. I cannot begin to tell you how many times we've passed this building without a clue of what it was.