Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Museums Museums Museums





After two days in the Louvre, we moved to the Musee d'Orsay today:  Art from 1848 to the beginning of the 20th century.  This is the home of the largest collection of French Impressionist art that we will see.  Many pages of the art history textbook come to life here.  The museum is a remodeled train station built in the 19th century but was converted to an art museum 20 years ago.  It is quite beautiful in and of itself.  I escorted a small group who wanted to go to Montmartre to see Sacre Coeur, the neo-byzantine church on the Butte Montmartre on the north side of Paris.  Quite a view from up there and a wonderful piece of architecture.  After that they insisted that they had to see the Moulin Rouge so I took them by there as you can see from the evidence.  All is going well.  It is a good group.  Blogger out!

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