Friday October 4th aka My grandpa's birthday! I hope he's having the best party ever in heaven!!
Today I visited the Tuileries Garden to get some chocolate ice cream to celebrate Grandpa's birthday. He loved chocolate cake but I couldn't find any so chocolate ice cream had to do.
I love how the Eiffel Tower just shows up when you're walking around Paris.
All the flowers were in bloom in the Tuileries garden, so so pretty!
Then I went to the National Archives, although the grounds are large there is only so much space one can walk through but I got to walk it for free! A perk of being a student in Paris, either you get the reduced price on tickets or its free!
Inside the museum at the National Archives, was a model of what the Bastille prison looked like before it was destroyed during the French Revolution of 1789.
The ceiling, I love the artistry they put into every space even the ceiling. We should do that in the states, draw angles on our ceilings!
The first room of the museum. It showed the tapestry of Rohen from the 14th century I think.
The next room showcased some of the things the National Archives has in their possession. These are the transcripts of what happened July 20, 1789 when the men in the Third assembly (lawyers, artisans, merchants, etc anyone who wasn't noble or apart of the clergy) decided to change the government from a monarchy to a government like the one in England, with a king and a queen but also a parliament however the French way.
The Edict of Nantes from April 1598 by King Henry IV to allow religious toleration to the Huguenots (Protestants) in the catholic state of France.
The marriage contract of Moliere, 1662.
The last letter of Marie Antoinette before she died in October 1793.
The testament of Louis XVI, 1792.
What the room looked like with all these priceless artifacts.
In the 18th century, the rooms in the National Archives were changed into the personal rooms of the Princess Marie-Sephie of Courcillon. This is her bedroom.
Her sitting room
Her entertaining room with a card table that is in the style of Louis XVI aka Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette and their court played cards at tables just like this one. Super cool!
Secret door!!
This room was not associated with the rooms of the Princess. It just showed what a historian or an archivist from the 17th/18th century.
With a map of what Paris looked like during the time.
The next room was full of boxes. They were what important papers were kept in between the 16th and the 19th centuries.
Better pictures of what the Princess's bedroom looked like.
Secret door!! I always wonder whats behind those doors...
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