Welcome to the history tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Hello and welcome to the show. Today we have our friends joining us for another travelogue.

This time we went to the city of light. We went to Paris, France, and saw a lot of things that we have talked about

on the show.

So we asked people that had been traveling with us, 50 of our new best friends, what things

stood out to them, not necessarily what was their favorite thing, because that's really

hard to come up with, but just one thing that stood out to them.

Maybe they felt something strong there or

they learned something and they wanted to tell you about it. So we have their voices on this

episode with ours as we describe our trip to Paris. This is our second field trip to Paris,

but this time we stayed in a totally different hotel in a totally different

part of the city. We were at Place de la Republic. There's a huge statue of Marianne right

outside our hotel rooms. We talked about her during the Statue of Liberty episode, so it was

kind of nice to see her right there in front of us every day. Marianne is kind of the national symbol, kind of a cross between Uncle Sam and the Statue of Liberty

and the concept of Columbia that America had going on.

She stands for all of the ideals that came out of the French Revolution, liberty, equality, fraternity, and any time there is a major protest, quite naturally, people come to Plastilla Republic.

And we did see some of those protests while we were there. It was very civilized. I never felt unsafe. It was very interesting to watch, I thought. And when

there wasn't that kind of action going on, there were skaters. Did you love that?

I did. And those poor skaters, like, they don't have a smooth surface. There's, like, giant tiles

made of concrete. And it was like, like, you know how know how like you can get train track soothing melodies

on YouTube or whatever? It was kind of soothing to me to hear the skaters outside. Yeah. I thought it

might remind you of your son a lot. That's the soundtrack of his life. How about this for another

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