Day One

Louis XIII built the Jardin des Plantes as his private medicinal plant stash in 1635. It's also a (literal) zoo, where they put the king's menagerie after beheading him during the revolution. That's also when the French revolutionaries turned the Louvre from a palace to a public museum (vive la révolution!)

The Jardin des Plantes is also the home of the Natural History Museum, which was a school since the start, and was one of the first schools to teach in French (not Latin). It's only a grad school and all the teachers are also researchers and/or work at the museum. We're still waiting on our student IDs but once we have those, more on all the cool things we get to visit.

For now, most of our classes are in Césure, a very cool temporary Tiers Lieu (Third Space) run by Plateau Urbain in university buildings that need to get de-asbestos'd and renovated. More on them later!