Trip to Paris 2024

Again, our basket arrived on time.

We walked to the Marais, to visit Historic Monuments and the Musée Carnavalet. Just beautiful and the entrance was free. To retrace this story chronologically, the museum relies on a collection of over 625,000 items. (yes, 625,00 items)

With 85 permanent exhibition rooms, the new layout is faithful to the mission of the museum's founders in 1866

We spent 3 hours there and the pictures we posted are a small sampling of what is there. We will come back the next time we are in Paris.

Bought some Sauternes to take home. Hard to find in Pennsylvania with “all that buying power”. Can find it in New York with no problems however.

The bells of Notre Dame ran out on Friday for the first since 2019 and did we hear it – not. We were underground on the Metro going to Opera Garnier. If we had known we would have planned differently.

We walked to Le Temps des Cerises in the evening and again enjoyed a wonderful meal. A 15 minute walk and a beautiful night. Talked to 2 young ladies from Burgundy who were next to us. We said we were from the US so we talked for a long time about French and American politics!

2024

Located in the heart of the Marais, in two mansions listed as Historic Monuments, the Musée Carnavalet has recounted the history of Paris and its inhabitants since it opened to the public on 15 February 1880.

Since its creation, the Musée Carnavalet has stood out from other museums with its exhibits of "period rooms", containing the reassembled interior decor of Parisian residences and mansions.

The Griffin
The griffin is an imaginary creature with a lion's body, horse's ears, and an eagle's head and wings and a common motif in the decorative art repertoire.

In wood, stone or metal, sometimes very colourful and amusing, signs caught the attention of passers-by.

The city of Paris grew up around its river, the Seine. Over time, its territory expanded,

This large composition shows the town hall under Louis-Philippe, following the work carried out by architects Étienne-Hippolyte Godde (1781-1869) and Jean-Baptiste Lesueur (1794-1883).

JEUX OLYMPIQUES PARIS 1924 ( Olympics in Paris 1924)

This prehistoric canoe is over 5 metres long and made from a single piece of wood, here an oak trunk. The canoe was used for fishing by the early inhabitants of Paris

This model shows Notre-Dame cathedral as it was in 1855, before the installation of its spire (designed by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1860).
We can recognize the rose window and square towers.

Paris in 1588 - This is a panorama of the Seine and the Île de la Cité, from the Louvre, at the end of the Middle Ages. To the right of the painting, we can see Pont-Neuf under construction: only four arches are completed. In this urban landscape seen from above, we can see Notre-Dame cathedral, in the distance.

Portrait of Charles IX (reign 1560-1574)

Popular festival - This scene depicting a popular or working-class celebration contains many funny or surprising elements. Can you see the musicians perched in the tree?

Does your fire place at home look like this one?

Although you cannot tell from my name, I am, in fact, the oldest bridge in Paris.
Henri Ill called for my construction in 1577 (I am called Le Pont-Neuf )

Foot from a statue of Louis 14
This monumental bronze foot comes from a statue representing King Louis 14 on his horse as a Roman emperor. This explains why the bare foot was fitted with an antique sandal. Stood in the Place Vendôme. It was destroyed during the Revolution.

In the 18th century, the Montgolfier brothers invented a technique that kept hot-air balloons in the sky. People could fly for the first time.

Ballooning became very fashionable: ladies wore balloon-shaped dresses and balloons were depicted everywhere on objects, crockery and furniture.

Look out on one of the courtyards

Louis XVI handing Franklin the signed treaties between
France and the United States of America, 6 February 1778

Stone model of the Bastille
This model was carved in one of the stones from the Bastille fortress.

This pair of earrings shows on one side, the head of Louis 16 with his eyes closed, and on the other that of Marie-Antoinette.

Execution of Louis XVI, on the 21st of January 1793

Marie-Antoinette leaving the Conciergerie
During the Revolution, the Conciergerie was a prison

A nude, muscled man lifts a woman with his left arm. The woman wears a flowing robe and a laurel crown on her head. The man symbolizes the French people, the woman personifies freedom.