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Almost every step I take in my new neighborhood--the 20th--gives me a new vision of Paris. I love nothing better than filling my senses with fresh sights, sounds, and smells and my brain with electric ideas, so this is a pleasure for me. I have much to show and tell, but today I'm going to answer a question I asked a couple of weeks ago about an eerie and stunning sculpture I'd seen. I asked readers where it was, and Matt filled us in--well, almost.
The sculptured woman holding the wall is in Le Jardin Samuel de Champlain, which is a lovely strip of garden skirting the avenue Gambetta and Pere Lachaise cemetery on its northwest corner. Lone Wolf and I were introduced to the garden by our friend Martin the day we'd taken our new apartment which Martin also found for us through his real estate agent just down the street.
This serene public garden with this stunning moment of beauty discreetly waiting to be found is dedicated to the memory of Samuel de Champlain, "The Father of New France", (Canada) and a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat and chronicler. He founded Quebec City on July 3, 1608, and served as its administrator for the rest of his life. One of our great lakes--Lake Champlain--is named for him, of course.
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