How are things with you today?
Me? Less than cheery as chilling temperatures
do a number on 'my nerves' as gramma used to say.
Still, the cold won't stop me from posting pics I snapped
just for you in Paris or from spilling more PARIS SECRETS...
don't you adore a big fat Frenchy secret!?!
One of my favorite finds in the Marais neighborhood is
Musee Carnavalet.
This one's my fav: study of a foot by François Boucher, Pastel, ~1751
Although essentially a history museum,
the musée Carnavalet is nevertheless an art gallery
with around 600,000 exhibits spread over more
than one hundred rooms.
While not a secret to Parisiens, on the day
we discovered it and strolled in, we were the
only visitors in this grand art gallery...can
you imagine how happy that made this
angsty crowd-allergic functional neurotic????
The courtyard is magic.
The history preserved here (16th to 20th century)
was brain and eye candy.
(In my imagination, I am statuesque.
Lo, I am indeed the size of a 3rd grader.)
In 1866, at the instigation of Baron Haussmann, the city council bought the hôtel Carnavalet to house the new institution. The building, which was constructed in 1548 and altered by François Mansart in the seventeenth century, was home to Madame de Sévigné from 1677 to 1696.
It's a secret too special to keep.
If you are Paris bound, make time for
Musee Carnavalet...
and room for lil me in yer carryon.
Peace to you right where you are.
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