Visiting Montmatre, Paris/Carlos Pueblo

Visiting Montmatre, Paris/Carlos Pueblo

A young visitor in the hostel recommended me visit Pigalle where I could

go up to a big church to have a good view of the city. My fellow Taiwanese

lady visitor indicated the concern of public safety and I did not know the

reason. I did go up to the small hill, Montmatre 130 meters high and the

white-domed church called Basilica of the Sacred-Coeur. Later an e-mail

from home indicated Pigalle is a night club district and a mixed race area.

Actually it didn’t bother me at all because I was very early in the morning

to reach to the domed building while most of the people were still at sleep.

It was easier to go up from the front side of the church because the sign

direction almost on each street corner. There are several platform on the

steps up with many ladder garden lots full of different kinds of flowers. When

I reach up to the top level, busload of Chinese tourists were released and I

could identify who they were from by overhearing their spoken language.

A lady guide was very surprised that I was so early in contrast of her group.

The church was not ready to open for that day’s visitor. I descended from the

Backside of the church where I could see the Eiffel Tower far away and still

vividly. Some early birds were taking exercises like yoga and Tai-chi shadow

boxing etc. It is surrounded by the residential area of Montmare.

I didn’t read the map, as a matter of a fact, the map was not as important as

a toilet location in Europe, without it I could not go further. I found a grocery

store of frozen desserts and use its toilet with a purchase of an ice cream cup

and I didn’t believe that a purchase was required because the clerk seemed

very understanding. I continued walking on the streets without any direction.

I believed that I passed by a big cemetery which was for commoners, not the

Famous Cimetiere du Montpanasse.

I decided to take the subway which I had felt more comfortable with to return

to downtown Paris. At Stalingrad Station where I received additional information

about the remain of the Bastille Fortress, I went back to Bastille again. I still could

find neither the remain and Musee Picasso. There are at least two Picasso Museums

as I know of, one in Malaga, Spain his birth place; one in Bastille, France his exile

home. I have been to the one in Malaga.

Visiting Paris Musee de L’Armee/Carlos Pueblo

Visiting Paris Musee de L’Armee/Carlos Pueblo

While I was walking on Avenue Des Champs Elysees, I could not move my eyes

away from a golden dome architecture nearby. When getting closer, it is the

army museum, Musee de L’Armee of Paris, after passing by several famous

buildings such as Grand Palais, Palais Bourbon, Assembly National, etc. Obviously

I must walk across the Concorde Bridge of the Seine built by the stone from

Bastille Fortress. Another famous Ecole Militaire is next to it while Champs de Mars

Tour Eiffel is always on the background. I didn’t have a Chinese map until later day

In Paris and still not read it until yesterday overlooking the significant., yet I had

passed several times after two visits of Versailles and returned to Invalides Station

and a bus tour along the Seine River.

From the varies sizes of old cannons displays on the court yards of the Army Museum,

I can see the warlike spirit of Empire France. The prosper of the Empire depended on

the army, the artillery and cavalier, of course the navy also helped the Empire expanding

to African and Asian colonies. Many prey and booty are inside Paris Museums nowadays.

For example, Napoleon took Saint Mark’s Cathedral horses statue from Venice and put

them on top of The Arc de Triomphe du Carousel. Last year, I was in Valencia, Spain

attending a tip guide tour. The well learned lady guide mentioned Napoleon III asked

Spain allowing his 2,000 troop passing through to Portugal. On his troop back through

Madrid, he refused to leave; therefore, Spain was under French control and that was

why Mexico and Haiti were ruled by French once upon a time and we, Texas, were under

the famous 6 flags and France was one of the 6 ruled Texas. A movie called the Pride and

Passion by Gary Grant, Sophia Loren, and Frank Sinatra, was a story about that time with

big cannon similar to those shown on the court yard of the Museum.

Ecole Militaire is a military academy famous for the produce of Napoleon Bonaparte of

1784 later becoming the emperor of French Empire. Later, the academy has expanded to

French Navy and Air Force. France is still very active with her military forces with the

Activity of North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

I enjoyed very much for a red rose garden near by the Eiffel Tower and a small arc shape

yellow and red roses adjacent to the tower. Tower ground was full of happy visitors going

up and down to the tower. I walked by and toward a subway station. There were some

people gathering for a kind of gamble for Euros, three cups for you to guess which one with

a dice and the dealer switching around three cups with a dice on the ground. Double pay

for the correct bet and forfeit he loser’s Euros. It had attracted a lot of bystanders and some

of them did join in gamble. I doubt that were the dealer’s accomplice.

巴黎陸軍博物館/莊峻華

巴黎陸軍博物館/莊峻華

走在香榭麗舍大道，眼睛無法避開一棟金圓頂大建築，走近一看，原來是

陸軍博物館，路過幾棟著名大建築，大小皇宮，協和廣場，法國國會，和

旁邊之依可烈陸軍官校，當然需要走過協和廣場橋，陸軍館在塞納河東岸

，更顯目者為，艾菲爾鐵塔，永遠在背景，金雞獨立一面，一直到現在，我

始打開中文版巴黎地圖參考，當時純粹逛街巴黎，後來連續兩次，路過此區

，一次從凡爾賽宮回巴黎，第二次搭76號巴士逛塞納河終站，就是協和廣

場。

從陸軍館之庭院觀來，法國曾經是尚武之帝國，庭院中收集許多古礮館，帝

國靠此繁榮，主要者陸軍也，當然海軍也幫忙走出歐洲，征服許多小國，成

為其殖民地，許多東西展覽在，近日博物館，都是戰利品，戰爭之擄掠，當

然也有法國文明之結晶，小凱旋門上之金色駿馬群，就是拿破崙拖重礮，越

過阿爾卑斯山，攻下威尼斯王國之擄獲，後來歸還義大利，去年旅行西班牙

巴練西亞市，小費女導遊博聞曰，法帝拿破崙三世，藉境西班牙，到葡萄牙

，事畢回程，兩千法軍逗留馬德里，決定西班牙王位，墨西哥和海地等美洲

西屬變成法屬，西部電影許多運黃金之故事，小時候看過一蘇菲亞羅蘭電影

，就是巨礮之故事，發生在西班牙。

依可烈軍校，就在隔壁街上，此校為法帝國陸軍軍官養成學校，最著名者為

1784年培養出來之礮兵軍官，後來之拿破崙大帝，軍校後來不僅陸軍，也包

括海軍和空軍，法國軍事能力，仍舊強盛，法空軍仍舊參加北大西洋公約組

織，武力制裁行動，當然沒有帝國時代之風彩，這是確實。

越近艾菲爾鐵塔，越顯出其塔之雄偉，現在是旅遊巴黎市，最熱門景觀之一

，鐵塔附近，街道植有花株，正開粉紅色花朵串，非常美麗，鐵塔旁有一大

玫瑰花圃，紅色花朵怒放，這是我之紅利，接近鐵塔，已經佈滿游客，準備

上下鐵塔，我還是欣賞我新注意到之瑰花爬藤，黃色紅色玫瑰花，依著鐵絲

架開花，就像一大花圈。走過鐵塔，往地下鐵站，經過大廣場水池，階梯附

近有賭博雜耍，很是有趣，主持者為青年移民，有男女附合聚賭，一次約20

歐元，猜中贏者兩倍，輸者錢沒收。

有甘比亞青年在示威該國獨裁者，我趨近和一主事聊天，因為不久前，中國

和甘比亞建交。有兩位中國模特兒，脫下外套，取景艾菲爾鐵塔，我連忙拍

下兩張相片留念。

Looking for Sorbonne Campus/Carlos Pueblo

Looking for Sorbonne Campus/Carlos Pueblo

Sorbonne campus is one of the major reasons why I come to visit Paris.

There were Chinese students coming to Paris for education during the

early 20^th century and becoming so distinguished in Chinese literature of

converting classical written language to regular spoken language. These

pioneer scholars’ written work have done so much influence on students

of the later generation including me. Some of them did come to Sorbonne.

Sorbonne was started as a theological seminary as all the famous western

universities. Sorbonne is famous for its liberal arts and sciences colleges.

I checked my photos gallery which shows no pictures of the one shown on

Google’s campus search. I thought that was because Sorbonne was built in

The real estate precious Latin District of Paris, an urban campus, no college

gate, no lake, and no hill, etc. I did see the Pantheon, many churches, Marie

Curie College of Science, and of course the student could walk to the huge and

beautiful of Luxemburg Park for leisure reading and the National Library and

St. Michael Notre-Dame for regular need of college life.

There is a Pantheon Sorbonne University included on the list of Sorbonne campus

that I think is to utilize the huge architecture and its resource. I met a Chinese

girl on Barcelona Art Museum. She went to Paris for undergraduate study and

Sorbonne was her French language school. She then went to finish her degree

In another college and continued her graduate study in London and work in a

bank after graduation.

尋找索本大學/莊峻華

尋找索本大學/莊峻華

索本大學校園，是我遊覽巴黎主要目的地之一，為了尋找索本校園，

我在巴黎市古拉丁區，繞行一日，始終覺得未進入校園，今日查閱谷

歌字典，原來這近千年之學府，遍步拉丁區，甚至拉丁區外都有校園

名稱索本大學，拉丁區幾座學院，都散佈在各個角落，中文文獻裡，

介紹留學法國學者均曰，出身索本大學，其實不虛，拿破崙時代復校

，稱之為法蘭西大學。有一年，扁市政府，想要整飭龍泉街曰，要使

師大校園，像巴黎索本大學一般氣氛，所以我特別觀察就竟，大概是

說很多咖啡館，可以讓學生喝咖啡，我想拉丁區，有很多特殊建築物

，像萬神殿，幾座大教堂，和盧森堡公園等，需要傾全國之力，始有

索本大學今日之氣候。

萬神殿是紀念有功於法國者，建築雄偉，萬神殿法文名，和索本和在

一起，也是索本校名，還有居禮索本大學等等，我看在巴黎讀大學，

大體上均可索本大學出身，無庸置疑。拉丁區房價一定高昂，學生如

何住宿？我正納悶。我在巴塞隆納市，遇見一小姐，曾在巴黎讀書，

我提索本，彼曰是習法語處，全歐洲大學均免學費，美國新總統，也

準備跟進。

Visiting Latin District of Paris/Carlos Pueblo

Visiting Latin District of Paris/Carlos Pueblo

One day a Taiwanese lady traveler recommended me St. Michael Notre- Dame

for a visit and I checked my map. Sorbonne University is also inside the district

and not far from the church. Again I got off Chatelet station early on the next

morning to walk toward River Seine. The church is on an island split the river

into two while I walked across the St. Michel Avenue bridge to the east bank.

There is a St. Michel Church between two big streets which I did come back to

take some photos. In Paris there are either palaces or churches which represent

two estates, royalty and churches, which had caused the great 1789 revolution.

The vender opened their box buildings for a business of a new day, souvenirs

and magazines and on the other side of the street, restaurants and more permanent

stores for tourists. I was attracted by an unique street of flowers shops, bird feeds,

and bird shops.

In addition to the fresh cut flowers, the shops also carry the growing plants in a large

pot. I like their roses with all kinds of color and some other charming flowers. I was

not sure if some of them were peony or dahlia and asked my questions. Lady owners

were very patient to me for my broken Spanish. On the other side of the small street,

shoulder to shoulder, were birds stands with all kinds of bird feeds. These are Arabic

birds merchants with very special hobby indeed. I have seen people in Taiwan keep

all kinds of birds as hobby and treated as property. Of course, I also saw people catching

sparrows in the rice field after the harvest for grilled birds for food.

Across another bridge is the world known St. Michel Notre- Dame of Paris. People from

all over the world have gathered in the church square and line up waiting to enter to the

church. The front view of the church is so large which cannot be fit to my regular Canon

lens. I entered to the inside of the church, a red cardinal was performing a mass for the

Catholics. The church keeps several saints around the auditorium. You can purchase

candles to light on the front of the saints of your favorite, of course, you need to pay a

fee usually one Euro for a small candle. We Buddhist did the same thing by burning the

insane to our Buddha and Bodhisattva, saints like of Buddhism.

I went back to the east side of the river entering Luxembourg Park and French Senate.

This was a surprise to me along with the Pantheon due to my afternoon search of

Sorbonne campus of the University of Paris. I have been an admirer of the university

ever since my childhood era. Many Chinese scholars were educated here in early 20^th

century which lead the written Chinese language revolution.

拜訪巴黎拉丁區/莊峻華

拜訪巴黎拉丁區/莊峻華

一日有台灣小姐旅客，推薦巴黎聖母院，我查地圖，附近就是索本大學，

因此翌晨一大早，我就在查特列站下車，路人告知，往塞納河方向走去，

此為古法帝國京畿，今日鬧區，不是宮殿，就是大教堂，法國大革命前之

兩大勢力，皇家貴族系統，和天主教系統，第三系統是生意官宦富家，一

般貧民，多數在鄉下，或是我居住旅店之郊外。我沿塞納河西畔走回東畔

，因為聖麥可聖母院，在塞納河兩岸間一小島，東岸河畔，有許多小禮品

商店，或是書刊店，約是關閉過夜，清晨商家上班，打開小四方型筐架屋

張開門市，過路也是正式商店，早餐廳已經開始營業，我節省習慣，早在

旅店，吐司咖啡裹腹，並携一筒開水，我之當當日課題，就僅如廁問題。

此為馳名巴黎拉丁區之開始。

就在塞納河東岸，聖麥可大道上，也有一聖麥可大教堂，在兩大道中間三

角攤上，非常顯目，我心繫聖麥可聖母院，暫時無暇他顧，走到一條花鳥

商店街，非常特殊美麗，花店不僅是花束鮮花卉，而且有盆栽，玫瑰花多

彩多姿，我是過於苛求，一直詢問牡丹花和大理花，法語又不通，也不像

有錢買花，女主人禮貌回應，回家後發現，此街花店確實特殊，後來我想

再度拜訪，未得機會。過街就是鳥店群，和鳥飼料行，店主和顧客門，都

是阿拉伯人，阿拉伯人也喜飼鳥，鳥在鳥籠內飛跳，各色各類，我小時看

過台灣人養鳥風氣，像是十姐妹鳥，我仍舊可辨識，小時後也能自制彈弓

打麻雀，也看過稻田收割後之網鳥，龍泉街之烤鳥，真是掃興矣，巴黎鳥

店是千年雅興。

聖麥可聖母院，已經開始結集全球遊客，我連忙排隊進入大教堂，已經開

始作早日彌撒，有紅衣主教主持，我繞上一圈，教堂內真是富麗堂皇，有

許多歷代聖賢靈座，天主教也可以燃燭祭拜，一小枝蠟燭一歐元，因為有

許多人在外排隊，等候入院參觀，我連忙結束參觀，外面已經站滿遊客，

後來我又三次經過聖母院廣場，也都是擠滿人潮，有一次是麵包節。

為找巴黎大學索本校區，我在拉丁區團團轉，結果無意間拜訪到盧森堡公

園，非常美麗大方，我在花園板凳上，觀看小朋友在池塘上，放小帆船遊

戲，此為小生意，小帆船出租3.5歐元半小時，有一小男孩，在草地上追

逐野鴿，野鴿有意，成群輪流來到，小男孩疲於奔命，卻也樂此不疲。法

國參議院在公園內，有荷槍實彈衛兵站崗。有人指著一圓頂大建築曰，索

本大學所在，我尋找半天，見到幾家索大學院，如巴黎大學居禮學院，索

本學院，都是牢鎖門院，為學校安全故，萬神院，就是圓頂大建築，就在

索本大學校區之間。