Research Paper On Paris

This summer me and my family went to Europe, more specifically Paris, and London. I loved my trip because I was able to learn new and different things about both countries I was in. The differences between France, England, and the United States are tremendous. The smells, sights, tastes, interactions between people were all different than the U.S. especially different than from Minnesota.
First my family and I visited Paris, France. It was a beautiful city with its French architecture on all of the buildings. An older look to the buildings gave a sense of the city’s history and its culture. Paris’s monuments, museums, and other famous spots were very interesting to me because it shows the culture, and history of the country, and city. The 2nd day we were in Paris, me and my family went to the Louvre. I was able to find and see the Mona Lisa and I wasn’t too impressed with it, to me the gigantic painting behind it was amazing. That painting was so large and so very detailed that I was stunned with it. I also saw many famous statues such as the Venus de Milo and The Winged Lady, my mom got those two mixed up so many times that

How tall it is, how stable, and how long ago it was created amazed me. The view from the very top floor was beautiful, I saw everything in Paris. The same day I went to Napoleon Bonaparte’s tomb, which was great because I know a lot of the history behind him, all of the battles and wars he won, until he decided to try and invade Russia. Notre Dame and St. Chapelle was after that, St. Chapelle was completely hidden from the street due to the fact that the justice building was surrounding it. The colored glass panes were stunning, they told different biblical stories in each different pane of glass. Notre Dame was beautiful, it was built during the gothic era in Paris. The fact that it started out very small and was rebuilt almost from the ground up to the size it is now, was