France, Ile de France, Paris, Aerial view over city and river through thick smog.

France, Ile de France, Paris, The Tomb of Louis Braille in The Pantheon.

France, Ile de France, Coupvray, The workshop workbench and tools of the father of Louis Braille in the house where they lived in the village commune.

France, Ile de France, Coupvray, The grave of Louis Braille in the village commune cemetery.

France, Ile de France, Coupvray, Marble commemorative plaque under a shuttered window on the wall of the house where Louis Braille lived in the commune.

France, Ile de France, Coupvray, Marble commemorative plaque under a shuttered window on the wall of the house where Louis Braille lived in the commune.

France, Ile de France, Coupvray, Marble commemorative plaque on the house where Louis Braille lived in the commune.

France, Ile de France, Paris, The Pont Neuf bridge across River Seine wrapped by the artist Christo as an installation sculpture.

France, Ile de France, Paris, The Pont Neuf bridge across River Seine wrapped by the artist Christo as an installation sculpture.

France, Ile de France, Paris, The Pont Neuf bridge across River Seine wrapped by the artist Christo as an installation sculpture with worker suspended in harness tying the restraining ropes.

France, Ile de France, Paris, The Pont Neuf bridge across River Seine wrapped by the artist Christo as an installation sculpture.

France, Ile de France, Paris, Gilded golden bronze statue of Joan of Arc on horseback in armour carrying her standard by Fremiet in Place des Pyramids in the Tuileries Quarter a focus of pilgrimage fo...