After a week on board the ship, we moved to the Pullman Hotel in the Montparnasse area. Nice place! We started the day 
with a walking tour of the picturesque Le Marais neighborhood. We saw the beautiful Place des Vosges, where Victor Hugo lived 
when he wrote the beginning of Les Miserables and other significant works. Once an aristocratic district, Le Marais is home to many buildings of historic and architectural importance. After the French Revolution, the district fell into disrepair and was abandoned its cachet; now it is again one of the more fashionable areas of Paris. It was also known for a time as the Jewish section of Paris, which explains its numerous Jewish-themed museums and monuments.
After the tour, we headed to Les Invalides, the French Military Museum which also houses the tomb of Napoleon and other 
notables, including Napoleon II; 
Napoleon’s brothers Jerome and 
Joseph; the heart of Catharina of Württemberg, Jerome’s wife of Jérôme; the heart of Théophile Corret de la 
Tour d’Auvergne, named by Napoleon the “first grenadier of the Republic”; Field Marshall Ferdinand Foch, the Supreme Allied Commander on the Western Front during the First World War in 1918; and Field Marshall Hubert Lyautey, a leading colonialist in Indochina and Morocco.