Orangerie, 2023

Our last Paris museum visit for this campaign was at the Orangerie, a place we've visited several times over the years (the water lily place)(e.g., https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2009/08/orangerie.html; and https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2021/10/orangerie.html). In view of the more recent post, and our sense that little had changed in two years, I think I'll skip the interior of the Orangerie and just post a few pix from our travel to and from the site. 

We took the bus to the National Assembly

Memorial for Aristide Briand, famous 20th century diplomat

Fence-eating vine

Statue outside the National Assembly of Colbert
(we ate at his restaurant a few days back); famed
economist and long-time advisor to Louis XIV;
theorist of mercantilism, a nationalistic economic
policy; so if you're ever on a French TV quiz show
and they ask you to name the four great statues 
outside the National Assembly, they are: Colbert,
D'Aguesseau, L'Hopital, and Sully; not Stephen
Colbert

Grand Palais; always closed for renovation, but there's hope for
the 2052 summer Olympics

Obligatory iconic view

Rodin's Smooch; banned in Florida

Inside the Orangerie; this space available, your painting here...

Cezanne, Pastoral, 1870; "hey, if it worked for Manet, it could

work for me!"

Pop-up food truck, mixing two approaches; sorry, maybe
this should be in the out-takes...

Now in the Tuileries; landscape planters' staging area

Looking to the open end of the Louvre, appreciating its immensity

In the Tuileries; very dusty on windy days

Periodically, on Sundays, streets are closed to motor
vehicles in the inner arrondisements; this is how it looks;
eerily quiet is how it sounds

We've become enamored of the cane vinyl-weaved chairs
you see all over in the cafes here; here are a pair of
matching high chairs

More high fashion

Another trompe l'oeil

Cool stuff in a shop back in the 6th

More is less

Underwear and belly button must show; torn jeans are now
definitely out