So Katie Carter got here on Sunday. She's been a trooper of a tourist. Yesterday, she climbed Notre Dame in the morning, and after I was out of school, we went to Sainte Chapelle. Katie was appropriately impressed, and I was as fascinated as ever. It's so PRETTY and SHINY. It wasn't that sunny of a day, but that was kind of for the best, because you can really see the images in the stained glass without blinding yourself.
My favorite place is the canopy of honor for the Crown of Thorns (no longer extant. Well, not that they had the real one in the first place, but you know what I mean). I find it fitting that a man (St. Louis, or Louis IX of France) who spent his life having people murdered in the Crusades would take a trophy that also would have blood on it. I hadn't noticed before how many of the scenes in the windows are of Saracens being beaten or beheaded. But for such a bloody man, he made a pretty place.
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