Long before video,* there was a famous pony prince… Emperor really:

Fauvain or Fauvel, was his name, depending on which manuscript you read. (Maybe even Fauvern; medieval dudes weren't big on consistant spelling.)

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Yes, globetrotting Twilight is fun, but she also provides a very useful service.
A sense of scale:



Can you believe the intricacy and detail on that tiny cylinder seal?

No matter how hard I try, I can't pronounce "le Louvre" like a Parisian.

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Also a nice little town in it's own right:

Quai Benjamin Franklin in Saint-Goustan.

Vannes is an incredible place!

The cider is plentiful and very very good! I found evidence in a museum that ponies have been crossing over here from Equestria for hundreds of years:

(Either that, or the painter mixed his pigments very poorly. Maybe he had too much cider?)

Twilight visits Les Machines de l'Île, where the love-children of Hieronymus Bosch and Jules Verne go to live out their dreams.

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But this one has a connection to Star Swirl the Bearded Leonardo da Vinci.*

As much as Twi admires him, she feels that some of his paintings set impossible standards of beauty for mares:

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* Two cranky old wizards with beards... I get them confused sometimes.

Spun sugar cake topper!

Looks like Dream Valley and Paradise Estates had an illegitimate love-child!

Twilight may be unimpressed by palaces, but this place sure knocked my socks off!

(Palais Jacques Coeur, Bourges)