Role Model

If you are raised Catholic, you grow up with a knowledge of the lives of the saints. Unlike many female saints, who seem to be young virgins who refuse Infidel princes and therefore die gruesome, horrible deaths, Sainte Geneviève, the patroness of Paris, lived a long and action-packed life that included running a Frankish blockade and turning back the Huns through the power of prayer. I sent Dan & G on a Sainte Geneviève scavenger hunt through Paris and they graciously obliged. However, my daughter is more of a Classicist, and preferred the Greek-themed monuments throughtout the city.

Sainte Geneviève at the Quai de la Tournelle
Sainte Geneviève at the Jardin du Luxembourg
Athena at the Louvre
Triton & Naiad Fountain at Place de la Concorde