Chapter 33
Mike Perez
Champs-Elysees
Funeral pieu
Memorial spike
Cruciform
Prismatic
Hexagons
Fleur-de-lis
cruciare
Arc de Triomphe
Mickey Mouse watch
Boulevard Malesherbes
Gare Saint-Lazare
Champs-Elysees The Champs-Elysées, also named "La plus belle avenue du monde" in French (the most beautiful avenue in the world) stretch from the Concorde square to the Arc de Triomphe. They have been recently and nicely renovated with large granite sidewalks and plane trees. The Champs-Elysées are a very pleasant promenade from the Champs-Elysées Clemenceau to the Etoile Charles de Gaulle metro stations and a center of Parisian life. http://www.parisdigest.com/promenade/champselysees.htm (April 11, 2005).
Funeral pieu-Memorial spike I have seen in Germany a small metal plate with the name of the deceased and the dates of birth and death when the names themselves have not yet been engraved onto a tombstone.
Cruciform Of the form of a (right-angled) cross; cross-shaped: spec. in Bot. of the flowers of cruciferous plants; in Arch. of a church built in the form of a cross.
1661 LOVELL Hist. Anim. & Min. 215 The cruciforme bone of the head [of a pike]. …1827 Gentl. Mag. XCVII. II. 499 At Horton Kirby..the Antiquary will find a cruciform church. http://dictionary.oed.com
Prismatic 1. Geom. A solid figure of which the two ends are similar, equal, and parallel rectilineal figures, and the sides parallelograms.
1570 BILLINGSLEY Euclid XI. xl. 355 Euery parallelipipedon may be resolued into two like, and equal Prismes. 1706 PHILLIPS s.v., Triangular Prism, a kind of Prism whose two opposite Bases are Triangles alike, parallel and equal. http://dictionary.oed.com
http://www.seajunk.com/prism.jpg
Hexagons 1. Geom. A plane figure having six sides and six angles. http://dictionary.oed.com
Fleur-de-lis
Cruciare [f. L. cruciare to torture, crucify.] Compare to the English word “excruciate.”
Arc de Triomphe
Mickey Mouse Watch In The Da Vinci Code, Robert Langdon wears a Mickey Mouse Watch. Mickey mouse is quite possible the most famous cartoon character of all time. In 1927 Proprietor of Disney, Walt Disney sketched Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. By 1928 this character had undergone various transformations, including Mortimer Mouse, and eventually became Mickey Mouse. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2004. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. <http://search.eb.com/eb/article?tocId=9052490>7 Oct. 2004 .
His wristwatches are available through many makers.
classifieds.aol.com. (October 7, 2004)
Boulevard Malesherbes Sophie and Robert Langdon travel down this street after they exit the rotary while they are heading for the train station.
As you can see from the map on the left (www.mapquest.com) Malesherbes does indeed connect to a rotary, but (apparent in the map on the right) Langdon’s route from the Louvre does not correspond with the crossing of the Seine as Brown mentioned in Chapter 18.
Gare Saint-Lazare This train station was built in 1837, and rebuilt between 1841 and 1843 by Alfred Armand. In 1853 it was extended to house four outside stations by Eugene Flachat. Trains departing this station travel to Normandy and Great Britain.
(www.paris.org) October 7, 2004.