Christopher Measom

It is doubly appropriate that we end our e-tour of Paris's monuments with a monument of monuments—one that is literally the end of the line for many!

"A truly tragic street lamp"

"Belfry skeleton"

"Mast of iron gymnasium apparatus, incomplete, confused and deformed"

"A carcass waiting to be fleshed out with freestone or brick, a funnel-shaped grill, a hole-riddled suppository"

Beside being the home address of Quasimodo—literature's best known hunchback and bell ringer—Notre Dame is also home to Point Zéro, the center of Paris.

On our way to Notre Dame from Sacré-Coeur we will make a quick stop in front of the Louvre—one of the oldest, largest galleries on the planet—just to get some background history.

The trip from the Moulin Rouge to Sacré-Coeur is a journey from sinners to saints!

While not really a monument, the name (meaning red windmill), and the exterior of this—perhaps the world's best know nightclub—have certainly become an established site in Paris.

A six-minute walk takes you from the Madeleine to the Paris Opéra—aka Palais Garnier, Opéra de Paris, and Académie Nationale de Musique (not to be mistaken with l'Opéra Bastille, place de la Bastille).

Turning north off the Place de la Concorde (onto the rue Royal) we soon come to an ancient Roman-temple-ish church that often plays host to Paris's most fashionable weddings.

At the far end of the Champs-Élysées, set on the largest and possibly the most infamous square in Paris, is the Obélisque du Luxor, a 230-ton, 33-century-old obelisk of pink granite that was given to France by Mehemet Ali, viceroy of Egypt in 1831.

With our backs to the Arc de Triomphe we will now take a virtual stroll down the broadest and most well-known street in Paris..