Notre-Dame, Natural History, Paris Mosque

Went to Notre-Dame right after it opened this morning, so caught some of a mass in progress: Wow, it’s just like in Conclave!

The Natural History museum is a bit of an odd place: one doesn’t, in daily life, get used to seeing quite that much aging taxidermy in one place. They also made a fake thunderstorm with the ceiling, for some reason. Same, shark.

Right across the street, the Paris Grand Mosque, modelled on al-Qarawiyyin in Fez:

At the Arènes de Lutèce, a Roman amphitheatre: