"Ok, ok - I've bought enough French berets as 'pasalubong' for everyone back home ...!" :-)
At the Pont d'Arcole bridge going back towards the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) near where we were staying.

At the background is the Ile St-Louis or Ile de la Cité - the cradle of Parisian civilization. It was here that the Parisii tribe lived; the Romans, led by
Caesar's lieutenant Labenius, conquered the Parisii in 52 AD and set up camp. The city was given the name Lutecia, from the Latin lutum meaning "mud".
During the barbarian invasion, Lutecia's inhabitants, galvanized by the young Sainte Geneviève, took refuge on the easily defended Ile de la Cité.
Clovis, king of the Francs and defeater of the Romans, made the island his capital. It stayed the area's center of activity throughout the Middle Ages.