Monday, October 09, 2006

 




Paris - The first image is an arc near the Louvre with gilding on the top. You enter the Louvre through the modern pyramid structure by going down several stories. The Louvre was formally a palace and it is gigantic. The art work of Paris is divided by epoch so the Louvre has earlier works of art and the Musee d'Orsay [ a former train station built in 1848 and painted by Monet...extreme right] has the Impressionists. There was some kind of scare the day we were there because the army was patrolling the Louvre with machine guns! I was amazed you were allowed to take pictures of the works of art in the Musee d'Orsay as long as you did not use a flash mode.


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