Paris - Arc de Triomphe Montmartre - 8me

Plate LXXI1 - From the Arc de Triomphe – Montmartre

Some distance away, the outline of the Basilica of Sacre Coeur on the Butte Montmartre is clearly distinguishable. Visions of its cafes, artists, and the legendary chanteuses of the area (as so brilliantly captured by Marion Cotillard in Piaf – La Môme) come so easily to mind. If the essence of the city is distilled in one part of it, that place must be here.

Have you ever had the feeling that you want to be in a thousand different places at the same time? In the time I was here, above Paris I must have changed my visiting plans a hundred times. I somehow could not determine any rational priorities, or the sequence I should take while looking three hundred and sixty degrees around the city. Perhaps the air is thinner at this height. 

Perhaps in Paris one should not try to be rational.