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So this afternoon I visited the Louvre with a group called Parismus, which is an organization for foreign students at the University of Paris. The goal of the excursion was to tell us a bit about the history of the building itself (long, convoluted, and involving François I, Louis XIV, XV, and XVI, and Napoléons I and III, like the majority of French history). And the other purpose of the visit was to show us the parts of the Louvre that people don't generally visit: the part from the Middle Ages,
le moyen âge, the collection of art from the ancient Near East (if that sounds familiar, maybe it's because I took a class on that two springs ago), and the royal apartments of Napoléon III. It was an interesting event, because I hadn't ever visited any of those parts of the Louvre, and I probably wouldn't have otherwise. It was also interesting to meet some other foreign students there, and I already knew one of the girls from my chi-gong class--in fact, she was the one who told me about the event and so we went together, which was nice.
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| See that Christmas tree in the background? Christmas starts way earlier here than it does in the U.S.! I've been seeing Christmas stuff since early November! I think it's too early, myself. |
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| This is the oldest part of the Louvre, and the only part remaining of the original structure. |
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| It was like being back in my Art of the Ancient Near East class... |
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| How many legs are there? |
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| The apartments of Napoléon III at the Louvre reminded me a lot of... his apartments at Fontainebleau. |
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