Musée Rodin (Rodin Museum)
Carol's picture of me taking the previous picture.
Garden of the museum. There's supposed to be water in that fountain.
The Burghers of Calais. In 1346, England's Edward III, after a victory in the Battle of Crécy, laid siege to Calais, while Philip VI of France ordered the city to hold out at all costs. Philip failed to lift the siege, and starvation eventually forced the city to parley for surrender.
Edward offered to spare the people of the city if six of its leaders would surrender themselves to him, presumably to be executed. Edward demanded that they walk out wearing nooses around their necks, and carrying the keys to the city and castle. One of the wealthiest of the town leaders, Eustache de Saint Pierre, volunteered first, and five other burghers joined with him. Saint Pierre led this envoy of volunteers to the city gates. It was this moment, and this poignant mix of defeat, heroic self-sacrifice, and willingness to face imminent death that Rodin captured in his sculpture. Confronting their destiny and death, alone, they neither touch nor look at each other. Barefoot, clad only in tunics, with a rope around their necks, the condemned men begin their slow, mournful walk.
The Gates of Hell - Inspired by Dante's The Divine Comedy. Over two hundred figures represent the tragic nature of human passions: despair, affliction and horror, filling the structure so completely that the architectural elements become indistinct. You can recognize other sculptures such as The Thinker and The Three Shades.
Carol taking a picture of The Gates of Hell
The Three Shades - In Dante's Divine Comedy, the shades stand at the entrance to Hell, pointing to an unequivocal inscription: "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here." Rodin places these figures at the top of The Gates of Hell
A painting or Rodin's Thinker by Edvard Munch
In the Mirror
Last Vision
The Age of Maturity (which you also saw in the Musee d' Orsay pictures)
Harpocrate avec tête d'enfant (Harpocrates with the head of a child) bronze and plaster
Carol and some statue in the garden
Vincent Van Gogh - Pere Tanguy
Didn't catch the title...
Les Invalides
Les Invalides is a complex of buildings containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France.
Note the Eiffel Tower in the background.
Let's play find Carol... Peekaboo
On the far edge of Les Invalides, where no one but us would walk, was this statue/fountain; presumably of John the Baptist
Eiffel Tower
Sainte-Chapelle
The lower chapel, which served as parish church for all the inhabitants of the palace. Not unimpressive on its own. But then you walk up to the...
...Royal Chapel, which evoked emotions I can't express. I want to worship God in this chapel!
Église Saint-Augustin
Carol taking the following picture of the rose.
Food
We stopped by a Boulangerie that made baguette sandwiches, bought some, and had a picnic in a park.
On our way to the Eiffel Tower we stopped and had macarons.
For dinner we stopped at a street cafe and watched Paris go by...
... and I ate egg-covered...
...hamburger? Yummy!
Oddities, etc.
The one-seat towncar - the Twizy!
I was making secret sauce....
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