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Francisco stopped his car in the parking lot. They stopped at a building that looked like a shopping mall.
"uh? Are we there yet?" Aphrodite looked at him with a puzzled look.
"No. No," said Francisco, releasing the seat belt attached to his body.
"Then? Why are we stopping here?"
"Don't you say you want to buy a new SIM card for your phone?"
"Oh, yes it is."
"Yes, already. Let's get down."
"Ah, okay." Aphrodite released a seat belt that was attached to her body. Francisco went downstairs to open the car door for Aphrodite.
Aphrodite walked out, then walked with Francisco toward the building. They wanted to buy a new number so that Aphrodite could communicate with her family during her stay in Paris.
After buying a new card and activating the card, Aphrodite was then invited by Francisco to go from there. Francisco would take him to some places he had originally planned where they would go.
"I can finally communicate with my mom and Jenia again," murmured Aphrodite with a deep smile looking at the screen of her new phone with a new SIM card.
"You happy?" Francisco asked as he glanced at him at a glance. Aphrodite looked happily smiling.
"Of course" said Aphrodite, who nodded her head.
"I'm also happy that you're happy" Francisco replied.
"Oh, yeah. Where are we after this?"
"I told you, I'll take you to beautiful places. Think of it as a vacation and stress relief and your tiredness after our wedding preparations."
"O-okay.." Aphrodite nodded her head in response.
Francisco drove his car engine somewhere. Aphrodite still did not know where the man was going to take her.
"Oh yes, besides I want to take you to a beautiful place, we also learn a little about the history of France."
"History? Oh, you're taking me to a museum?"
"Ng. may not be wrong, but not really. Because we're not just going to the museum."
"Then?"
"First we'll visit.." Francisco hung up his words.
"To…?" Aphrodite was still waiting for her next move.
"You'll see, oh. And then I'll ask you."
"What mean?"
"Later, when we get to the first place."
"You're really not cool" murmured Aphrodite who then turned her attention in the other direction.
Francisco chuckled in response to the words of Aphrodite who seemed fed up because she had been playing.
Francisco continued to drive his car engine down the road they were on, he then stopped when recording actually arrived at his first stopover.
"We've arrived?" Aphrodite asked when she realized her car had stopped.
"Let's look there." Francisco pointed towards the building in front of them. The distance was quite far but Aphrodite could clearly see the building from top to bottom. A large beautiful building with unique carvings there. Looks like a wall, but somehow many visited by the people there. Aphrodite could see how many people were taking pictures and walking up to the building.
"What building is that?" Aphrodite asked puzzledly, she looked at Francisco who was sitting beside her.
"Have you seen the movie Lucy? Who is Scarlett Johansson?"
"Lucy?"
"Yes." Yeah."
"Scarlett Johansson's? Wait a minute," Aphrodite tried to remember the film that Francisco just mentioned.
"Oh I remember. You mean the movie of a woman who went to college in Taipei, Taiwan who then had the power after her body accidentally absorbed CPH4?" Aphrodite asked as she recalled the film Fransisco was referring to. The man nodded his head.
"Really! That's the movie I mean."
"Then?"
"You remember the scene where Lucy asked one of the Parisian cops to help her catch and get the rest of her drugs?"
"Yes. I remember."
"Well, there's a scene in the movie that captures this historic monument."
"uh? Really true?"
"Yes. When Lucy and the cop sit in the car, Lucy tries to find one of the conversation signals through the phone network she sees."
"O-oh that scene?"
"Yes. And they're right here!"
"W-woah, I just realized it." Aphrodite stunned. He just realized it, it's true. If you remember again, this is the place. In his place at this moment.
"By the way you said it was a monument?" Aphrodite shifted her focus to Francisco.
"Yes. The name of the monument is Arc de Triomphe."
"Arc de Triomphe?" Repeat Aphrodite with a little spell.
"Nl." Francisco nodded his head. "Would you like to try visiting there?"
"Yes, why not? Not every day I go to Paris, right? So while I'm in Paris, I want to visit there."
"All right, let's go." Francisco runs his car closer to the Arc de Triomphe.
Arc de triomphe de l'Etoile or commonly known as Arc de Triomphe is a Archway/Monumen of Victory. The triumphal arch-shaped monument in Paris stands in the middle of the Place de l'Etoile area, at the western end of the Champs-Elysees region. The building was built on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte with the aim of honoring the services of his great army.
The Arc de Triomphe is a monument similar to The Cenotaph in London, England located on parliamentary street.
The Arc de Triomphe is one of the most famous monuments in Paris that set the backdrop for an urban ensemble in Paris. Located on Chaillot hill which is right in the middle of the five-star highway junction configuration.
Construction of the monument was planned in 1806 by Napoleon after his victory at the Battle of Austerlitz. The completion of the basic foundation construction took 2 years of work, and Napoleon entered Paris from the west with Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria in 1810, he could already see this monument formed from the construction of his wood.
The architect of the monument, Jean Chalgrin, died in 1811. Construction of the monument was continued by Jean-Nicolas Huyot. During the Bourbon restoration in France, the construction of the monument was halted and not resumed at all until the reign of King Louis-Philippe in 1833-1836.
Napoleon's body was taken past the monument on December 15, 1840 on his way to his final resting place in Invalides.
A Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is installed under the Arc de Triomphe in memory of the victims of World War I on January 28, 1921.
Francisco and Aphrodite spent nearly an hour there. Aphrodite took many pictures as a marker that she had visited a monument of the most historic in the city of Paris in France.
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