Secret

Paris

A priest who blesses animals, winemaking firefighters, a tree in

a church, an inverted phallus at a well-known entrance, an atomic

bomb shelter under Gare de l'Est, a real Breton lighthouse near

Montparnasse, unsuspected traces of former brothels, a patron saint

of motorists, royal monograms hidden in the Louvre courtyard,

the présentation of Christ's crown of thorns, a prehistoric merry-

go-round, a sundial designed by Dalí, war-wounded palm trees,

bullet holes at the ministry, religious plants in a priest's garden, a

mysterious monument to Freemasonry at the Champ-de-Mars, a

solid gold sphère in parliament, a Chinese temple in a parking lot,

the effect of the Bièvre river on Parisian geography, a blockhouse in

the Bois de Boulogne...

For those who thought they knew Paris well, the city is still

teeming with unusual and secret places that are easily accessible.