Thursday October 3rd I cleaned my apartment and my room because it was my week to clean the apartment but my room was a mess so I didn't get out until the afternoon.
First I visited the new Bibliotheque Nationale. There are 4 very large buildings that house millions of books and papers from the past and the present! I got the chance to wander around on the first floor which connects all four buildings and that alone was huge.
Inside though was a dedication to the globes of Coronellie which were made for the king and were rarely on display until they were put here when the library opened.
That was the first floor, well one side of it. It was in a square shape with a forest in the middle.
Thats what it looks like from a distance. Talk about biggest library I've ever seen!
Since it was Thursday, the Musee D'Orsay was open late until 845pm so I had plenty of time to wander the halls. Although pictures were forbidden, it didn't seem like they pressed the issue all that much so I got away with a couple of pictures. The building was an old train station but now it houses paintings and sculptures from the 19th and 20th century. I absolutely loved the impressionist work. Post and Neo impressionism didn't impress me as much. I could've spent all day on the floor with the impressionist artists like Monet, Renoir, Manet, and Degas. I would love to hang one of their works in my house someday, of course a fake but even the fakes are great cause the works are so great themselves.
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