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stained windows - and the one quarter with the gold & marble altar's orange-yellow windows - a beautiful & sensitive combination for such a man. And those sombre, the pensive figures standing in the circle around the man's tomb, oh my. Several men - I hope architects or something & not French glory admirers, spent much time with all the areas.

But of course Versailles outdoes all. I took me there day before on the coldest & freezingest yet. So nice to see some of the countryside - lovely old & even crudely simple houses & a few chateaux. Then, finally arrived, a bracing walk thru wind over cobblestones to enter the big Baroque splurge & splash of French history - and good Lord - who could ever imagine any human conceiving of it all. Especially the grounds & many many pools (fountains turned off.) going so far off in the distance. I hope I can return on some fine warm day to spend time wandering outside. It was a little difficult to look at more than 3 Napoleonic battles in the spectacular gallery - Clovis in 496 was far more interesting. But the Hall of Mirrors worth 5 trips. The other 10 visitors were far more attentive to guard's calculated description, perhaps because they all speak French; but I couldn't take my eyes off the views from the windows - even in the great mirror chambre - especially the center window which seems to look across miles of green, pond after pond - then the dark line of winter trees - and missed the joke about Kennedy - appeared quite funny. The 8000 pieces of "art" rather lost in all the gilt & marble except some of Jacque Louis David.

Luxemburg is one favored place especially. No matter how cold - sailboats - and the wind was doing great things for a youngster yesterday.