{"id":1044,"date":"2009-05-28T08:50:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T12:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2022-01-12T08:25:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T13:25:57","slug":"day-89-marmottan-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/28\/day-89-marmottan-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 89–Marmottan, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

Still another gallery, this one the Marmottan,\u00a0www.marmottan.com<\/a>, where Monet’s “Sunrise–An Impression” (“Impression Soleil Levantl<\/em>“)\u00a0<\/em>gave name to the Impressionists, which a number of them didn’t like anyway. Although I’ve been here a few times, Graham wanted to show me Monet’s palette, one of which is on exhibit although the better one was off somewhere else, someone explained to me. I couldn’t take photos so I photographed the “Sunrise” and “Palette” postcards.<\/p>\n

This mus\u00e9e is out in the 16th arr, just\u00a0this side of\u00a0the Bois de Boulogne but a very ritzy area. Walking through the Ranleagh Park, even the grimy pigeons had turned into white-neck doves (or at least some more elegant-looking breed of pigeon). I couldn’t really figure out how that happened. There were also magpies around the park which I haven’t seen elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Worked for a bit today, trying to finish a few things.Sandy had to run a few errands.<\/p>\n

Then spent an hour or so reading Paris Match, their higher-brow version of People. Very interesting article about Isabelle Adjani, the French film star of many years.<\/p>\n

Got a few things organized this afternoon (shipped boxes of books, etc. home), had a drink at Caf\u00e9 de la Mairie and headed off to Racine’s (again) tonight. Ended up doing a few “repeats” but there it is. Our prerogative.<\/p>\n\n\t\t