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Whether it's a perfume shop, a luxury store, or a French restaurant, it's not a perfume shop, a luxury store, or a French restaurant, but it's a café with a lot of styles, and the French have a soft spot for coffee.

Ye Kai went out early this morning and had breakfast in the café downstairs.

That's right, it's breakfast at the café.

A cup of coffee, a baguette, and a small jar of raspberry sauce, a sauce used to spread on a baguette like a tomato sauce when eating French fries, can enrich the bread.

The baguette is the star of the bakery world, and the French president has publicly expressed his support for the baguette's application for inclusion on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of the United Nations.

In fact, it tastes nothing special, his recipe is very simple, using only four basic ingredients: flour, water, salt and yeast, usually without sugar, milk powder, almost no oil and wheat flour.

His skin is hard, but it's just a shell, torn into strips and dipped in a little blueberry jam or butter, and the taste is sweet, one of the staple foods of the French.

The French people's breakfast is mostly sweet, and Ye Kai wanted to eat some noodles or something salty, but he couldn't find a place.

If you come, you will be safe, so Ye Kai integrated into Paris and had a French breakfast.

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

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

In fact, there are more than 300 metro stations in this small Paris of 105 square kilometers, with a metro entrance almost every five hundred meters, which will be convenient wherever you want to go.

After 17 minutes, Ye Kai got off at the rue de la Notre Dame de la Coluese subway station.

When you step out of the subway, you will see a building shaped like the front half of a cruise ship: Notre Dame Cathedral.

"It's like a ship...... indeed"

Ye Kai thought silently, picked up the camera and took a picture of this old, but still energetic lady.

The original French name of Notre-Dame Cathedral 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.

Surrounded on all sides by the romantic Seine, only a few bridges connect it.

This is one of the most prestigious attractions in Paris, most of the world's languages can be heard in the square in front of Notre-Dame, and on the way to Notre-Dame, Ye Kai heard Chinese, Japanese, English, German, and Korean.

And it's not the peak tourist season in Paris, and if you come two months later, you may not be able to hear the specific language, just think that it will be a large swarm of mosquitoes buzzing around you.

If you don't talk about the desecration of Notre-Dame, think of this building as half of a cruise ship, then his forecourt is on the side that is neatly cut off. And the island where Notre Dame Cathedral is located is also shaped like a ship.

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

However, Notre Dame Cathedral was founded in 1163, more than 850 years ago, and the designer's idea at that time may no longer be able to be verified by modern people, right?

From a distance in the forecourt, the twin towers have four levels, with three recessed reliefs on the lowest floor, and a second clock-like building with three sculptural figures standing on the clock and two windows on the sides.

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

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

He laughed a little, as a confused foreign tourist, it's not too much to rub the explanation, right?

Ye Kai approached the old man with the umbrella so that he could hear his explanation clearly.

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

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

"Absolutely. "But I'm not a professional tour guide, so I beg your pardon for saying badly." ”

His expression was proud, as if to say, 'No one here knows Notre Dame Cathedral better than I do'

It turns out that he is a volunteer tour guide.

Ye Kai nodded at him, and also followed the team of tourists he led, walking towards one of the three reliefs in the front yard.

"Look at the building. He said.

"It's the most famous building in the world, it's very grandiose, it's balanced, and if you look at the geometry of the tower, you can see that there are vertical lines, horizontal lines, squares and circles, and in general all geometric shapes. ”

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

In addition to people, there are many very strange things here, which should be the demons of Western mythology.

"Look how divided it is, between good and evil, next to Christ, we can see the chosen ones, with crowns on their heads, who have fulfilled their tasks and have been redeemed," he said. ”

On the other side are the guilty, who are scourged to the painful hell and sent to hell to be sentenced. ”

Ye Kai left the tourist team.

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

The main body of Notre-Dame de Paris does not require a ticket to enter, and the only places that need to buy tickets are the bell tower and the basement, which is the place where Quasimodo, the bell-ringer, rings the bell in the novel "Notre Dame de Paris".

It is said that this novel tells others the fact that beautiful girls only like handsome boys. Even if Quasimodo likes Esmeralda no matter how much he likes, he can only be unrequited love.

Good reality......

When you enter the church, you must take off your hat, and once you enter, you can hear the choir singing hymns in the distance, and the singing echoes in the 100-meter-long, 33-meter-high building.

Even people who don't understand the meaning of the song will think that the song is good, or that the choir sound is good.

Walking inside the church makes you feel lost, dizzying, and you don't know what to see.

Beautiful stained glass, glowing harshly in the sunlight, and old oil paintings called works of art hang on the walls.

He walked towards where the choir was.

Along the way, look at the ancient buildings around you and let out an amazement.

He doesn't understand the connotation here, just like Westerners don't understand the connotation of ancient Chinese architecture, but the sense of heaviness precipitated by history is something that everyone who enters Notre Dame can feel.

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

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