Notre Dame, 'Our Lady' of Paris

Advantages: Grand example of church history and architecture
Disadvantages: none

...Notre Dame Cathedral is a Parisian Catholic church which welcomes parishioners from all over the world, for worship, as well as travellers who come to appreciate over 700 years of divinity and fine architecture. I've been past it on several visits but this year fate called me in on a historic day, one remembered in sadness: the day the Pope John Paul II died. My sister and I walked around this massive, beautiful interior and we slowly realised the priest was praying sadly, amid holy incense and across the floor a growing 'pond' of candles around a photograph of the ailing Pope . We thought he had died but other visitors quietly advised us that he was probably in his last hours. That evening he died and the next evening we went back to Notre Dame and took part in his special Mass, attended by the French Prime Minister...

Writing321 02.10.2005 · Read review
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Ma Dame, you're Alien to me

Advantages: Lively, summery
Disadvantages: Isn't original, a weak 'copy' of Alien, poor staying power

...Launched: 2008 Group: floral :: Introduction :: I received Ma Dame as a Chrismas gift in Mauritius where my partner and I spent our winter holiday in the sun, sand and sea. I also own Classique EDP, so I was very pleased having the last addition to the 'Classique' series but did the fragrance live up to itself? :: The packaging :: The bottle is definitely modern, girly and less sophisticated than its big sister, Classique. Engraved in the clear, pink-tinged rectangular we find the famous 'Classique' figure of a female torso with Gaultier's signature handwriting underneath. :: The fragrance :: Top notes: mandarine, grenadine The fragrance opens up with intense fruity-smelling notes with a sparkling edge. The most dominant feel is fresh sweet citrus and an even sweeter, ripe fruity note of cherry or mulberry...

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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame

Advantages: good story, lots of action
Disadvantages: serious theme, might be unsuitable for very young

...Disney's The Hunchback Of Notre Dame was released in 1996 and was directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise. While it was quite different from Disneys previous work, it did well and it is one of my favourite classic Disney movies. The movie is availabe on DVD between £9 - £17, depending on where you buy it. The cheapest place to buy this movie online is Amazon.co.uk for £9.97 This movie runs at 91 minutes. It's suitable for all ages, however one of the scenes where Quasimodo goes to the Festival Of Fools upset me (and is still quite hard for me to watch!) when I was younger, so parents might want to watch it themselves first. It has been said by many that it is not a movie for kids, but I'll leave it up for the parents to decide. I was 10 when I first seen this and I was fine, apart from the FOF scene. There is quite an extensive...

chocolategloss 20.05.2006 (21.05.2006) · Read review
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Notre Dame

Advantages: Stunning Views, Free Entry To Inside of Cathedral
Disadvantages: Narrow Passageways, Poorly Lit inside (adds to ambience though!)

...Located in the very heart of Paris and on the Cité island in the middle of the river Seine, Notre Dame cathedral represents the apitome of gothic design. Although construction began at around 1160, it wasn't until 90 years later that the two towers on the west side were erected and another 550 years when the grand spire was added. The towers were to have had spires of their own, but these were never completed. In 1804, it was at the cathedral that Napoleon was crowned as Emperor of France. The 386 steps that take you to 69 meters (226 feet) from street level are well worth the climb, as you are rewarded with stunning views of central paris and beyond and the Gargoyles and statues that are built on the roof and facade just cannot be appreciated from ground level. Inside the cathedral the three stain-glassed rose windows are nearly...

bruleo 05.04.2003 · Read review
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Dame me this is good

Advantages: Makes life soooooooooo easy
Disadvantages: Can get bogged down as there is so much in it

...DameWare utilities is a collection of programs that allow you to work with remote computers as if you were physically sat at the machine. This is helpful if you work in a computer support role (Like me funnily enough). It can also be hugely useful if you are working off site or you have a large network (WAN) which is over more than one site. I?ll try to split this review into the major programs that make DameWare so useful but because it can do so much we?d be here for a good while if I listed everything it can do! So?. First Things: ----------------- Once you open the first screen of DameWare you will be presented with a panel to the left and a large daunting grey space for the rest of the screen. The panel shows you all the machines the software knows about, weather it is by Active Directory or a Workgroup or individual...

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Dames in Cornwall

Advantages: Brilliant performances, enjoyable story
Disadvantages: none, really, for me

...on the short story by William Locke, and was adapted for the big screen by Charles Dance. Genre-wise, this film is a drama. It is a British film, made by the UK Film Company and Baker Street. It was produced by Charles Dance. It was nominated in the 2005 European Film Awards for best actress for both Dame Maggie Smith and Dame Judi Dench, and also for the 2005 London Critics Circle Film Awards for British Actress of the Year, also for Dame Judi Dench. As you will have gathered from the above paragraph, Ladies in Lavender has two huge British actresses, but they are not the sole stars. The cast includes: Dame Judi Dench ? Ursula Widdington Dame Maggie Smith ? Janet Widdington Daniel Bruhl ? Andrea Miriam Margoyles ? Dorcas Natascha McElhone ? Olga Daniloff The film has a cinema rating of 12. This surprised me when I first looked as the film...

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Notre Dame De Paris by Victor Hugo

Advantages: A beautifully real story that will rend the heart
Disadvantages: Some of the description can be a little long-winded

...Better known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Notre Dame de Paris was written by Victor Hugo as a tribute to the Parisian cathedral and the beauty of its lost Renaissance city. The main character is Quasimodo, the grotesque hunchback and cathedral bell ringer, adopted as a baby and brought up by the serious-minded, emotionless archdeacon Claude Frollo. Both Quasimodo and Frollo find themselves driven into a passionate obsession for a young and beautiful gypsy girl - Esmerelda. But Esmerelda - kind-hearted but a little shallow - only has eyes for the handsome, vainglorious Captain Phoebus. The complex, interweaving love story is bound to end in tragedy. The richness of Hugo's narrative left me spellbound. Each and every character - especially Pierre Gringoire - a flawed, poverty stricken writer also in love with Esmerelda and lost...

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Je t'adore Paris !!

Advantages: Classic French beauty, history and ambiance
Disadvantages: None

... CATHEDRALE NOTRE DAME DE PARIS "Each face, each stone of this venerable monument is not only a page of the history of the country, but also of the history of knowledge and art.... Time is the architect, the people are the builder." -- Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris. INTRODUCTION I love Paris. In fact I could have written that famous song, 'I love Paris in the Springtime."!! Because whenever you visit Paris the sights you see and experiences you have can differ on each trip. Depending on the time of year, or even the time of day, each experience can change as readily as the weather does. I have never once on any of my visits been disappointed with my trip. One place that I always love to visit, one that epitomises 'The City of Light', is the magnificent Notre Dame Cathedral. Notre Dame Cathedral...

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Drop-Dead Dame

Advantages: a good read, thrilling plot
Disadvantages: dialogue occasionally a bit stilted

...DROP-DEAD DAME Come with me to Pakistan, to a small village which is still run like in feudal times. Siraj Din is the richest landlord, what he considers good for the village and the villagers is done; his son Habib has moved with his family to the nearest town, but when it comes to family matters the old man is still consulted, nothing happens that he doesn't approve of. This does not mean that the achievements of modern times are opposed, Zarri Bano, Habib's eldest daughter and the old man's favourite grandchild has studied in Karachi, lived there on her own, is known as a feminist in academic circles and is about to set up her own publishing company. Education is a good thing and encouraged, no less so because an educated women has better chances to marry well than an uneducated one. This leads us to the pivotal problem in...

MALU 17.04.2007 · Read review
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Queen of Norway

Advantages: Refreshing
Disadvantages: Dominating citric flavour

...Summertime is traditionally when the refreshing thirst-quenching properties of wheat beers come into their own. This year in Scotland, we had summer from 23-25th June which didn't exactly leave a lot of time for sampling some but, luckily for you, I had the good foresight to take notes when I had a bottle of Belgian wheat beer in the South of France last year. There's nothing better than sitting, people watching, at a pavement café on the French Riviera, while sipping on a cool wheat beer (actually there are a great many things which are better, but that's another story). And that brings me neatly to the subject of this review, BLANCHE de NAMUR. Brasserie du Bocq, in the Ardennes village of Purnode, in Belgium, was originally a farm/brewery which began life back in 1858 brewing only in the winter when there wasn't enough work...

proxam 27.07.2003 · Read review
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