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| La Brioche Lyonnaise
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| Inside La Brioche Lyonnaise. In the back are outdoor tables for smokers.
We ate at tables outside the front, alongside the sidewalk.
| Breakfast: a croissant, a pain au chocolat, an "almond thingie with cheese"
(according to my notes), and a nice glass of fresh orange juice.
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| Quebec National Library (Grande Bibliotheque du Quebec)
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| The Quebec National Library (Grande Bibliotheque du Quebec), a huge modern
glass and steel building, sits above a major metro exchange.
| The central shaft of the library and its glass elevators.
| One of the reading/relaxing areas in the library. Huge glass windows on
the left let in a lot of light.
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| Parc Lafontaine
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Parc Lafontaine's fountain and some lakes.
Inside joke: does the red
shirt add anything?
| A nice hallway of trees.
| Another lake.
| I really like the way these trees are placed. I think it's haphazard but
something about it really appeals to me.
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| Square St-Louis
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| Many people apparently bring lunch, possibly bought from restaurants on
the nearby popular commercial street (St-Denis), to Square St-Louis and
sit on the benches by the fountain and eat.
| Some of the nineteenth-century town houses that face the square.
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| Jean-Talon Market (Marche Jean-Talon)
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| Excellent: colorful cauliflower.
| Berries, nuts, and bulbs, oh my! Excellent, or maybe I'm just a
sap for artistically arranged food. Many vendors at the Jean-Talon Market
had similarly nice presentations.
| Peppers... Simply many types of peppers.
| A variety of eggplant colors. I've never seen this elsewhere, not even
at farmer's markets in California.
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| Au Pain Dore, the bakery where we bought bread, sat, and ate it along
with all our other market pickings.
| One of the central lanes of the market. To see the vendors themselves,
view the full sized image.
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| Drive from Montreal to Quebec
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| Highway 40 northeast of Montreal contained many tree with fall colors.
Here I attempted to take a picture out of a moving car.
| Another, more successful, attempt. The car's movement resulted in a
neat effect.
| Eglise St-Philippe, a random church in the town of three rivers (Trois
Rivieres), about halfway between Montreal and Quebec.
| A panorama of the St. Lawrence River from the town of Trois
Rivieres.
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| The Ursuline Monastery (Couvent des Ursulines), also in Trois Rivieres.
| The incredibly tall steeple of the Trois Rivieres Cathedral.
| Notre-Dame des Sept Allegresses, yet another church in Trois Rivieres.
I wonder if the town, for it is a small town, remains religious enough
to support all these churches?
| Sanctuaire Notre-Dame du Cap-de-la-Madeleine, the largest and most
famous church in the vicinity of Trois Rivieres. We saw enough church
interiors in Montreal and so decided not to go inside.
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| From Trois Rivieres to Quebec, we switched to the more scenic highway
138; it stays close to the river. This is one church we passed along
the way. Doesn't it seem like the blue cross was artificially added to
the image later? How odd.
| The river that passes under the bridge in the previous picture. It joins
the much larger St Laurent river just out of sight.
| Yet another impressive church spotted along highway 138.
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| Chez Victor
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Chez Victor isn't well advertised, as exemplified by its unlit, easily
overlooked sign on the lamp post.
Artificially brightened.
| The dark, pub interior of Chez Victor. I think we were seated in the
darkest corner.
Artificially brightened.
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