Rachel wanted to orient herself to the City, and so, with a variety of stops, back-tracks, lunch, and more stops, we walked from our apartment to Notre Dame and then the Hotel de Ville and the Metro back home; by way of Place de la Bastille, Place des Vosges, the Marais, Ile St. Louis, etc. Two miles more or less. One stop was the Musee Carnvalet, Paris' city museum.
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| Entering Musee Carnavalet |
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A hall of metal signs; plenty of these are still around; some are not; some lucky
ones get into the museum |
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A collection of porcelain showing balloons; lighter-than-air flight was quite the
rage in the latter 18th century, and Paris was where it began |
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Taking the Bastille; the Revolution and its aftermath are the
big story here--a big story anywhere--but I'm afraid we did
not do a very good job with this museum; it's not very well
organized, and none is in English--so we just hit the parts
that made most sense to us...considering that some of us were
jet-lagged and others hungry |
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| David's Le sermont du Jeu de Paume, le 20 Juin, 1789; let the bad times begin! |
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| Rights of Man |
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| Louis XVI's last abode; pretty damn nice if you ask me |
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| Monsieur Guillotine |
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Charlotte Corday removes Marat from the
Reign of Terror |
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| Corbet's General Bonaparte |
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| Levosier's General Bonaparte |
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Louis Boulanger's La Liberte, allegorie des journees de Juillet,
1830; hmmm, I wonder how this relates to a much more
famous painting by Delacroix... |
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Victor Navlet's 1852 view of Paris (with balloons); some
more hard times to come, 1870-71, 1914-1918, and especially
1940-1944; but things were going to be all right |
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Backtracking a bit on our walk, beautifully-painted ceiling in the Hotel Sully
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