OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH

Although France is now as secular a country as one could wish to find, it was of course for well over a thousand years deeply Catholic.  As a consequence, Paris is dotted with churches, most of which, so far as I can tell, are now frequented more by tourists and concert-goers than by the faithful.  Every little neighborhood, or quartier as they say here, seems to have one.  Our neighborhood church is down at the end of our street.  As I passed it this morning at 6 a.m. during my walk, I paused to take a picture of it.  Here it is.

Visitors to Paris know it by its formal name, The Cathedral of Nôtre Dame.