Chapter 35



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Hasat Cakkalkurt

Gare Saint-Lazare

Bleary-eyed college kids

Zoning out

Blue-cad baggage porters

Ruffling

Lille-Rapide

P.A. announcer

Idling

Rue de Clichy

Montmartre

Sacre-Coeur

The cruciform key

Priory seal

Penmanship

24 Rue Haxo

Connaissez-vous la Rue Haxo?

Bois de Boulogne

Priory of Sion

Gare Saint Lazare:

It is the first Parisian railway station built in1837, next to the Place d'Europe. Its main line was its link from Paris to Saint-Germain-en-Laye. It was rebuilt by Alfred Armand between 1841-1843, and it was later extended by Eugène Flachat (1851-1853), through the addition of five metal structure covered halls, the largest having a span of 40 meters.

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1. The station's exterior clock 2. Ticketing. 3. Eastern façade.

Note another source says that, Gare Saint-Lazare was built in the late 1880s to accommodate travelers to Paris's Universal Expo of 1889, for which the Eiffel Tower was also erected. Though the station now fulfills 21st-century transportation needs, the grandeur of the architecture remains. ( )

Blear “Of the eyes or sight: Dim from water or other superficial affection.”

1398 TREVISA Barth. De P.R. VIII. xxi. (1495) 333 The syghte of a candyll is seen wythout lette of an eye that is hole, but of a blere eye it is nat seen wythout lykenesse and shape of a manere rayne bowe. 1840 THACKERAY Paris Sk.-Bk. (1872) 49 Her eyes grew watery and blear.

 

Bleary eyed

“Having the mental vision dimmed; dull of perception, short-sighted.”

 1561 T. NORTON Calvin's Inst. III. xvii. (1634) 395 The judgement of God farre surmounteth the bleare-eyed sight of men. …1927 YEATS October Blast 15 Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.Oxford English Dictionary Online© Oxford University Press 2004

Zoning out zone, zone out, zoned out: A way of floating out and not realizing passage of time or anything else around you. Can happen intentionally or unintentionally

Example: Unintentional: I don't know what happened after that. I just sorta zoned out.

Intentionally: I was really zonin' till my girlfriend came along and started yelling at me.

Ruffle To turn over (the leaves of a book) hurriedly; to slip (cards) rapidly through the fingers.

 1621 DONNE Serm. cxvii. Wks. 1839 V. 65 It is not to be able to repeat any history of the Bible without book, it is not to Ruffle a Bible, and upon any word to turn to the chapter and to the Verse. 1826 SCOTT Woodst. iii, It is a mercy our good knight did not see him ruffle the book at that rate. 1872 Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. June 435/1 He ostentatiously ruffles the cards. Oxford English Dictionary Online © Oxford University Press 2004

Lille It is a city, the capital of Nord département and of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais région, northern France, on the Deûle River, 136 miles (219 km) north-northeast of Paris, and 9 miles (14 km) from the Belgian frontier by road. Lille began as a village between arms of the Deûle River. Count Baldwin IV of Flanders fortified it in the 11th century. The medieval town was destroyed or changed hands several times. Louis XIV besieged and claimed it in 1667. After being captured by the Duke of Marlborough in 1708, it was finally ceded to France in 1713 by the Treaty of Utrecht. Lille was damaged and also occupied by the Germans during World Wars I and II. Lille forms one of the largest conurbations in France. Its commercial and industrial activities have been stimulated by its proximity to the northern countries of the European Economic Community and by its good communications location. It is an important railway junction, and it is served by an airport, by the motorway from Belgium to Paris and the Mediterranean, and by the canalized river Deûle. Lille's Chamber of Commerce dates from the 18th century. It has a commission for regional economic development, a branch of the Bank of France, and has an annual international commercial fair (begun 1925). The city has a state university (transferred from Douai in 1887 and reorganized in 1970), a Roman Catholic university, commercial and technical schools, and a branch of the Pasteur Institute. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2004.  Encyclopædia Britannica Online.

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Idle “Of an engine: to run while disconnected from a load or out of gear, so that it performs no external or useful work; also, to run very slowly.”

 

  1916 [implied in IDLING vbl. n. 1]. 1920 V. W. PAGÉ Useful Hints Motorists iii. 78 Turn petrol adjustment to the right..until motor idles smoothly. 1925 A. W. JUDGE Carburettors & Carburation iii. 37 The ideal carburettor should:.. (4) Enable the engine to run very slowly when ‘idling’, without undue waste of fuel. 1932 CHATFIELD & TAYLOR Airplane & its Engine (ed. 2) viii. 169 Airplane engines must be able to idle, that is run very slowly, in order to keep the landing speed as low as possible. 1934 Boys' Mag. XLVII. 23/2 One after another the four engines were started, ‘revved’ with a deafening roar singly and all together, and then left quietly ‘idling’.

Oxford English Dictionary Online © Oxford University Press 2004

Montmartre Set on a hill 130 meters high, and the area of Montmartre can be seen all over Paris. The name "Montmartre" comes from "Mont des Martyrs" (the bishop St. Denis, the priest Rustique, and the archdeacon Eleuthère were all decapitated there around the year 250). In the 12th century, Benedictine monks built a monastery near Rue des Abesses which later became the seat of a powerful abbey.  “The Montmartre area was the center of a lot of activity during the Paris Commune in 1871. Despite the resistance of the people of Montmartre, the area remained under Federal control from March 18 until May 23. The end of the 19th century saw Montmartre to be the center of artistic life in Paris and the model of a free, bohemian existence. Many artists, from Berlioz to Picasso, lived, worked, and played here. These creative spirits (and their café, the Lapin Agile) helped keep this area the city's intellectual and artistic center up until the First World War.”

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Sacre-Coeur See also Chapter 16. Sacre-Coeur means “Sacred heart.”After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, it was proposed to construct a church to the Sacre-Coeur on the butte Montmartre. Of the 78 entries in the competition for its design, the architect, Paul Abadie was chosen.

The first stone was laid in 1875, and it was planned to be built in the Romano- Byzantine architectural style. Abadie died in 1884, and Sacre- Coeur was completed in 1914. It is not opened for worship until 1919 after the WW1 ended. The final cost of Sacre-Coeur was 40 million francs. and



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The Cruciform key

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Priory Seal

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Penmanship “The art of using a pen, i.e. of writing; the action of writing; skill in writing; style of writing, handwriting; calligraphy.”

  1695 AYRES (title) The Tutor to Penmanship, or The Writing Master..Shewing all the Variety of Penmanship and Clerk~ship as now practised in England. 1868 M. PATTISON Academ. Org. v. 291 A clever youth..can discuss as many of the questions mooted by the paper, as three hours of rapid penmanship permit.Oxford English Dictionary Online © Oxford University Press 2004

Connaissez-vous la Rue Haxo? Do you know Haxo Street?

In The Da Vinci Code having lost the police, Neveu and Langdon head in a cab to Paris's west side, traveling via the Bois de Boulogne's Allée de Longchamp to the Depository Bank of Zurich, where a deciphered message from Saunière tells them they'll find a "cryptex" (a device whose code must be broken to reveal its contents) that will help in their quest for the Grail. The fictional Depository Bank of Zurich is said to be "adjacent to the Roland Garros tennis stadium," which is in the park's southern section. (The bank is said to be on rue Haxo near the stadium; the real-life rue Haxo is on the eastern edge of Paris near the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise.)

Help in the Quest

Bois de Boulogne “Until Napoléon III's time, the 2,200-acre Bois de Boulogne was a wild woods. But the brilliant landscape architect Jean-Charles Alphand, a protégé of Baron Haussman (the prefect who oversaw the reconstruction of Paris in the 1850s and 1860s), created a series of elegant promenades, romantic lakes, and formal playgrounds based on the London-style parks the emperor admired. Le Bois became an immediate hit with Parisians and remains popular today with rowers, joggers, walkers, riders, picnickers, and lovers. Parisian style and elegance are on full display at the French Open tennis tournament, held in late May at the beautiful Roland Garros stadium. The park becomes a distinctly adult playground after dark, especially along sections of Allée de Longchamp, when prostitutes of all genders come prowling for clients.”

ADDRESS: Main entrance at bottom of av. Foch.

NEIGHBORHOOD: Bois de Boulogne.

MÉTRO: Porte Maillot, Porte Dauphine, Porte d'Auteuil (also Bus 244)



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Priory of Sion See Chapter 23.

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