French Army Museum in the Invalides
After my glorious military career of one year, nine months and thirteen days as a draftee in the American Army (including fifty-one weeks in Vietnam), I am not exactly what Read More …
Tag: Museums in Paris
Musée des plans-reliefs
On the top floor of one wing of Les Invalides in Paris there is an unusual museum showing twenty-eight large relief-map models that were made starting in the seventeen century, Read More …
Louvre: Hall Napoléon
When the Pyramid at the Louvre was being built in the 1980s, they also built a large underground exposition space called the Hall Napoléon, which is now used for temporary Read More …
Willy Ronis photography exhibition
This was one of those rare exhibitions that changed my whole way of looking at the world. When I came out onto the street (Rue de Ménilmontant) I had the Read More …
Jean-Jacques who?
In the ‘Quarter of the Monceau Plain’, one of the four quarters of the 17th arrondissement in Paris, there is an entire ‘national’ museum devoted to the painter Jean-Jacques Henner Read More …
Musée Charles X in the Louvre
Charles the 10th reigned as King of France from 1824 to 1830. To celebrate his coronation at the Reims Cathedral, he commissioned the great Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) to Read More …
Ruebens and Marie de’ Medici in the Louvre
Why the French King Henri IV felt obliged to marry Marie de’ Medici, of all people, is something I have never quite understood, even though I once had a phase Read More …
Mundolingua in Paris
Mundolingua is a small museum devoted to a huge subject, namely “language, languages and linguistics.” Topics include definitions, phonetics, vocabulary, grammar, first language acquisition, foreign language learning, language problems, myths Read More …
Opera Library and Museum in Paris
The library-museum in the Opéra Garnier is one of the public sites of the French National Library (Bibliothèque National de France or BnF). It is located in the Rotonde de Read More …
Dionysian frenzy
In addition to the permanent exhibition of coins, medallions and antiques, the French National Library (Site Richelieu-Louvois) often hosts prestigious temporary exhibitions. When I was there in the summer of Read More …