The stuffy old ICOM card worked its magic today enabling us to both to enter the Grand Palais by the side entrance and thence to see a great Monet exhibition. Really good display with curved walls and discrete greys. Comforting to see the stick on sign age peelin and the odd white tape on the terrible low plinths (also curved) to herald possible trip hazard. I was surprised to see carpet throughout albeit a very clean and new one....to cover the creaky old boards. Plentiful Monets 5 haystacks (ours again took the prize...and then some series of four or five houses of parliament or Rouen cathedral or house on beach at normandie working from the classical depiction through to the most impressionistic.... enjoyed the family scenes even though his initial troubles with anatomy belie a sense of French familiarity....huge show with over a 100 works and a credit to 50 years workin ....real treat for us today....my opinion of the man grew and grew and I was also impressed by the pulling power of the Curator and the national Art gallery of France.
Lunch, within sight of a life size bronzed Jefferson complete with American bill of Rights....and then a movie with french subtitles about the founder of facebook....was funny to watch all the Iphones facebooking before the start...
Dinner was wild not for the rain but a full on stand up tempete tween waiter and barman at the local. Glasses goin everywhere and much nodding and winking by the patrons....one of whom dryly suggested they must be married.....hahaha
Lovely day to have been able to see so much we really do have le bon chance.
Tomorrow a ride on a supposedly signposted unique sens (one way) bike path just inside the old city walls to see the Parc Monceau, Buttes Chaumont and old Abelard and Heloise in their fancy old tombe.
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