| According to the experience of these days, we thought that the heart of Paris is on the banks of Seine. You even need not map to walk along the bank, it is not easy to get lost. Whereever you walk, you can find landmarks. |
| Walking along Blvd Richard Lenoir to South, we arrived at right bank of Seine. We walked along the stone trail by Seine. But after a while we found it was diffcult to get out to main road because there was only driveway by the trail. We had to cross this road only for vehicles to the main road. | 
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We were back to Rue de Rivoli, the long big road parallel Seine. We decided to walk randomly. Jiangping chose to turn right to ave de Opera. At the end of this avenue, we found Palais Garnier, Paris' world-famous opera house. |
| Turning right to Blvd de Capucines, we arrived at Blvd de Madeleine. There was a Roman architecture. It was underrepair and many people sit at the foofstep. | 
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It was recommended in Fodors' five-day walk route that Rue St Horiore was good for window shopping. Now we were at this road. |
| Before we turned to ave de Opera, we saw a green pole a couple of blocks away. When we walked along Rue St. Horiore, we found this pole was on a square right of this road. The square is Place Vendome, in the building at No 3. Napoleon married Josephine in March 1796. The pole named Colonne Vendome is 43.5m tall, it consists of a stone core wrapped in a 160m-long bronze spiral made from 1250 Austrian and Russian cannons captured by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805. The bas-reliefs on the spiral celebrate Napoleon's victories between 1805 and 1807. The statue on top, originally meant to represent Charlemagne, depicts Napoleon as a Roman emperor. | 
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From Place Vendome to south, crossing Rue de Rivoli, we were at Jardin des Tuileries, a large garden. It is said that it was laid out in its present form (more or less) in the mid-17th century by Andre Le Notre, who also created the gardens at Vaus-le-Vicomte and Versailles. We crossed the garden and went to the left bank of Seine. |
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There are many bridges over Seine, they have different personalities: some are made of stone, some have two floors, some with statues; some are white in color, some are golden in color; some has single arch, some a couple of arch. It is a good idea to walked along Seine with "S" route by cross these bridges. |
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