October 1

I went walking in Paris one quiet Sunday morning late last month, intent on seeing a few things I'd never seen before-which is always easy in this abundantly blessed city.

I started from the Métro stop at Gare St. Lazare, on the Right Bank in the 9th arroindissement, foreign territory to a Left Bank habitué like me. And I took pictures, featured in a quiz in my last posting. I guess it was too hard. Nobody could identify them all. Now I will do so.

Nos. 1 and 3 depict St. Trinité church, just east of Gare St. Lazare, surmounted by a great clocktower, built around 1850, during the sweeping urban modifications launched by Napoleon III in the 2nd Empire. At the time, the area around it, at the foot of Montmartre hill, was being developed as a fashionable new residential district, known as La Nouvelle Athènes. Architect Théodore Ballu, also the creator of lovely, neo-Gothic St. Clothilde on the Left Bank, gave the church a busy Baroque façade more akin to Rome than Paris.

Nos. 4 and 5 were taken in Parc Monceau, a 10-minute walk west of Gare St. Lazare, the green centerpiece of an elegant neighborhood, with streets lined by fine mature trees and distinguished-looking mansions. One of these-just east of the park, at 7 Avenue Vélasquez-is the subject of photo No. 2. It was built in the 1870s by Italian patriot, banker and collector of Asian art Henri Cernuschi, who stuffed the dignified building with the gleanings of his wide travels in China and Japan. Now a small museum of Asian art, the Musée Cernuschi boasts, among other rare and delightful objects, a huge 18th century Buddha, intended for a temple in Tokyo.