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-- Bayeux -- Mill Stream -- Cathedral Notre Dame et Vieux Bayeux - exterior. Consecrated in 1077 -- Cathedral interior -- William the Conqueror, hero of the Battle of Hastings -- Normandy -- Shore cannon protecting the beach from allied invasion in 1944 -- Memorial to Canadian World War II dead -- Normandy beaches today. This is probably the invasion beach code-named Gold by the allies. Gold was invaded by British forces. A few miles east from here is Juno beach; invaded by the Canadians with a loss of nearly 2000 lives. A few miles west is the American invasion beach nick-named - after D-Day - as "bloody Omaha" -- Paris -- Arc De Triumph with rain approaching -- Bridge over Seine with Eiffel Tower before downpour -- Notre Dame in a ray of sunshine after downpour -- Chemin Vert Metro station -- Picasso Museum -- At the Museum: Picasso 1921. The Reading of the Letter. In French: La Lecture de la Lettre
