Passage du Caire - Restaurant le Champollion

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi59z2drdvnZqtaKHQKPoxhZHbaABHHiaU8DxAvGTwm_cGE1zBoSMtkkWkWjmoI3iwW6ewmHAF9uLEWPoEuLU-14zYJ68unzaxTBejXuYV0q7DGXMHfY7lJbTVc9TB68uB7UzE-oeKJBc/s1600/2013+Nov21+Paris+_20131121+044+DSC_1729.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi59z2drdvnZqtaKHQKPoxhZHbaABHHiaU8DxAvGTwm_cGE1zBoSMtkkWkWjmoI3iwW6ewmHAF9uLEWPoEuLU-14zYJ68unzaxTBejXuYV0q7DGXMHfY7lJbTVc9TB68uB7UzE-oeKJBc/s1600/2013+Nov21+Paris+_20131121+044+DSC_1729.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Le Champollion</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Not quite the lunch hour, </div><div style="text-align: center;">but the tables and chairs are ready</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The heaters under the awning keep it a moderate temperature </div><div style="text-align: center;">on all but the most frigid days.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">(Do not forget to look-up</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">at the head sculptures on the building)</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Le Champollion</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Place du Caire </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">109, rue du Caire</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75002, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Passage du Caire - Restaurant le Champollion

Le Champollion Not quite the lunch hour,  but the tables and chairs are ready The heaters under the awning keep it a moderate temperature  o...

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Passage du Caire

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSfCDC7tVYRLrkJ7fHUkxHAb5epc7RP93-ucIEZNAIbb3Ux1kKVZWKhZmZWCum9b9r40ngJroMJZSJSy-u1RlpwbcJOv6W2Xz0ecEzNLs8aSygPx9kThCvKbkfha17pz3Gr5kin07S_-U/s1600/2011+april+1+DSC_0113.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612214400322677186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSfCDC7tVYRLrkJ7fHUkxHAb5epc7RP93-ucIEZNAIbb3Ux1kKVZWKhZmZWCum9b9r40ngJroMJZSJSy-u1RlpwbcJOv6W2Xz0ecEzNLs8aSygPx9kThCvKbkfha17pz3Gr5kin07S_-U/s640/2011+april+1+DSC_0113.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">As Marie and I wandered the streets of the 2ième arrondissement we saw a small green space, un petit jardin, on a triangle of ground called Place du Caire. As we glanced up we saw this façade, an entrance to Passage du Caire, adorned with three heads of the goddess Hathor. The Egyptian theme is further carried out with the band of pseudo-hieroglyphs above the sculptures.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Now, for the rest of the story... I have been trying to find the name, the exact location, the street address off and on for several weeks. Marie had joined in the hunt as well. So, what expert would you turn to in the same situation? Why, <a href="http://peter-pho2.blogspot.com/"><strong>Peter</strong></a>, of course! He responded in an instant and so I am </span><a href="http://peter-pho2.blogspot.com/2010/09/passage-du-caire.html"><span style="font-family:arial;">linking to his post </span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">which is much more comprehensive than mine. Many thanks, dear friend!<br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passage_du_Caire"><strong>Passage du Caire</strong></a></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Place du Caire</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">at Rue d'Aboukir</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span>

Passage du Caire

As Marie and I wandered the streets of the 2ième arrondissement we saw a small green space, un petit jardin, on a triangle of ground called ...

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