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Chapter 109 Notre Dame

What are the most shops in Paris?
Is it a perfume shop?Luxury stores?Or a French restaurant?No, there are the most coffee shops in France, and you can see coffee shops with different styles everywhere. The French have a soft spot for coffee.

Ye Kai went out early this morning and had breakfast at the coffee shop downstairs.

That's right, breakfast at the cafe.

A cup of coffee, a baguette, and a small jar of raspberry sauce. Raspberry sauce is a sauce used to spread on the baguette, just like eating French fries with ketchup, it can enrich the taste of the bread .

French baguette can be described as the star of the bread industry, and the French president also publicly expressed his support for baguette to apply for the United Nations Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

In fact, it tastes nothing special. His recipe is very simple, using only four basic ingredients: flour, water, salt and yeast. Usually no sugar, no milk powder, almost no oil and wheat flour.

The baguette skin is very hard, but it’s just the shell. It is torn into strips and dipped in a little blueberry sauce or butter. It tastes sweet and is one of the staple foods of the French.

French people usually have sweets for breakfast. Ye Kai wanted to eat some noodles or something salty, but he couldn't find a place.

Once it comes, it will be safe, so Ye Kai blended into Paris and had a French breakfast.

Since he was going to visit Notre Dame, he got up early today and had dinner before nine o'clock.

There is a subway station 200 meters out of the cafe.

In fact, in this small Paris with an area of ​​105 square kilometers, there are more than 300 subway stations, and there is a subway entrance almost every 500 meters. No matter where you want to go, it will be very convenient.

Seventeen minutes later, Ye Kai got off at the subway station of Notre Dame Street in Colluitre.

Stepping out of the subway, you can see a building shaped like the front half of a cruise ship, which is Notre Dame de Paris.

"It does look like a ship..."

Ye Kai read silently, picked up the camera and took a photo of this elderly, but still energetic lady.

The original French name of Notre Dame de Paris is "notre dame", which can be translated as our lady.The lady refers to the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus.She is located on a small island in the Seine River.

The island is surrounded by the romantic Seine River on all sides, and only a few bridges can connect it.

This is one of the most prestigious attractions in Paris. You can hear most languages ​​in the world in the square in front of Notre Dame. Ye Kai heard Chinese, Japanese, English, German, and Korean while walking towards Notre Dame. .

And this is not the peak tourist season in Paris. If you come two months later, you may not be able to hear the specific language. You will only feel a large group of mosquitoes buzzing around you.

If the desecration of Notre Dame is aside, the building is half of a cruise ship, and his forecourt is on the side that is neatly cut off.And the island where Notre Dame is located is also shaped like a ship.

It is not known whether the architect was influenced by this at the time.

However, Notre Dame de Paris was built in 1163, which has a history of more than 850 years. Maybe modern people can no longer verify the designer's ideas at that time?
Seen from the distance of the front yard, the twin towers have four levels. The bottom level is three recessed reliefs, and the second level is a clock-like building with three sculpted figures standing on the clock and two windows beside it.

Above it is the origin of the name Twin Towers, which are two towers with good symmetry.

An old man walked past Ye Kai with a tourist, pointed at the Notre Dame Cathedral with an umbrella and said: "The reputation of Notre Dame Cathedral is well-known all over the world, and everyone on the earth has heard of her..."

He smiled. As a confused foreign tourist, it's not too much to give an explanation, right?
Ye Kai approached the old man with the umbrella in order to hear his explanation clearly.

But he smiled and nodded at Ye Kai, and asked, "Hello, can you understand French?"

Ye Kai pursed his lips and remained silent for a while, then said: "Yes, I can understand, I just want to hear your explanation, is that okay?"

"Of course." He said, "But I'm not a professional tour guide either, so please forgive me if I speak badly."

He had a proud look on his face, as if to say, 'No one here knows Notre Dame better than I do'

It turned out that he was a voluntary tour guide.

Ye Kai nodded towards him, and followed the group of tourists led by him towards one of the three reliefs in the front yard.

"Look at this building," he said.

"It's the most famous building in the world. It's very majestic, but it also has a sense of balance. If you look at the geometry of the tower, you will find vertical lines, horizontal lines, squares and circles. The total There are any geometric shapes."

Walking in front of the recessed relief, Ye Kai saw that there were hundreds of portraits carved on it, some angels with wings were looking down, and others were looking at Jesus above.

In addition to people, there are many weird things here, which should be demons in Western mythology.

He introduced: "See how divided it is here, between the good and the evil, and beside Christ we can see the chosen ones, all with crowns on their heads, who have fulfilled their mission and received Redemption."

"On the other side are the guilty, who are scourged to hell and sent to hell for judgment."

Ye Kai left the tourist team.

The explanation is very good, but there are too many subjective things, it is better to rub other tour guides by yourself.

The main body of Notre Dame de Paris does not need tickets to enter. Only the bell tower and the basement need to buy tickets. The bell tower is the place where the bell ringer Quasimodo rings the bell in the novel "Notre Dame de Paris".

In other words, this novel tells others the fact that pretty girls only like handsome boys.No matter how much Quasimodo likes Esmeralda, he can only be unrequited love.

So realistic...

You must take off your hat to enter the church. After entering, you will hear the sound of the choir singing hymns in the distance. The singing echoes in this building that is 33 meters long and [-] meters high.

Even people who don't understand the meaning of the song will think the song is nice, or the voice of the choir is nice.

Walking in the church makes people feel lost, dizzying and not knowing what to look at.

The beautiful stained glass shines brightly under the sunlight, and there are ancient oil paintings called works of art hanging on the walls.

Ye Kai walked towards the place where the choir was.

Looking at the surrounding ancient buildings along the way, I gave out admiration.

He doesn't understand the connotation here, just like Westerners don't understand the connotation of ancient Chinese architecture, but the heavy feeling accumulated by history can be felt by everyone who enters Notre Dame.

It would be great if the Old Summer Palace was still there.

If Notre Dame de Paris is the most prestigious building in the West, then in China, the Old Summer Palace will definitely become a label representing oriental architecture.

　Are there any referral tickets?Give me some. (≧≦)

　　


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