Paris Day 4

We woke up to a beautiful view of the Eiffel Tower. We got ready and started our day at The Orsay Museum. I loved everything about the Musée d'Orsay. It is a former railway station which makes the architecture stunning. Orsay has mostly French art from 1848 to 1914. It has the largest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist art. Basically all of my favorite artists are included there; Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne, Cassatt and Van Gogh. It was breathtaking standing in front of originals of so many of my favorites. Next we went to the Rodin Museum to see The Thinker. Our last stop of the day was Les Invalides and Napoleon’s tomb.  Les Invalides used to be called the Hotel National des Invalides, the National Residence of the Invalids. It is a complex of buildings with museums and monuments all relating to the military history of France as well as a hospital and retirement home for war veterans.  We ate dinner at our hotel.  We had a charcuterie board, bread, a club sandwich, and a delicious lemon dessert. We once again went to our room and hit the hay.

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 View from hotel room

Inside Orsay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

outside orsay

Walking to the Rodin

Rodin Museum

 

 

Les Invalides & Napoleon's tomb

 

The sarcophagus of Napoleon Bonaparte

Walking back to hotel

Dinner at hotel