Marais 2

Welcome back to the Marais district of Paris. This time we are in the Jewish quarter.

The first stop is this Jewish Synagogue. The building was designed to look like an open Torah scroll which, unfortunately, you can't see in this photo, but it really does! Notice the Star of David above the door.

Not too far from the synagogue was this Jewish elementary school.

Still the school...

Allow me to translate the plaque on the wall. "165 Jewish children from this school were deported to Germany during the second world war, where they were exterminated in the Nazi camps. Never forget." I read that and I just felt...sick and angry. How could people be so cruel? Especially to children. It makes me sad.


I'm not entirely sure what the significance of this being on the school is...but I thought it was pretty cool.


This is the entrance to Hotel de Soubise. You may have caught onto this by now, but "hotel" does not mean what you would normally think a hotel is. In France, hotels are lavish mansions that once belonged to royalty or some other important figure. This particular palace was comissioned by Francois de Rohan, the Prince of Soubise.

I thought it looked exactly like a manor out of a Jane Austin novel.

These next few pictures are inside of the Musee Cognacq-Jay.

Pretty, isn't it?

And that's it for this walk! It was one of the shorter ones! We were supposed to go to the Picasso Museum, but sadly it is closed until 2012. This is the street we were walking along on our way back to the metro to go home.