{"id":3708,"date":"2001-12-22T20:01:51","date_gmt":"2001-12-23T03:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2018-02-28T11:49:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:49:46","slug":"musee-national-du-moyen-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2001\/12\/22\/musee-national-du-moyen-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Mus\u00c3\u00a9e National du Moyen Age"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I finished Tulipomania : The Story of the World’s Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused<\/a> this morning – it was a fun read, especially the parts about the history of the tulip and the anecdotes surounding the start of the tulip craze in the United Provinces. I think I’ll work on South: The Endurance Expedition (Penguin Classics)<\/a> by Ernest Shackleton next (I’ve already read to where they are stuck on the ice).<\/p>\n

We went to Notre Dame cathederal – it is quite simply awesome! We had lunch across the seine at Cafe Panis – a sandwich and salad today. Then, refreshed, we headed to the Mus\u00c3\u00a9e National du Moyen Age<\/a>, better known as the Cluny museum, the national museum of the middle ages.<\/p>\n

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Musee National Du Moyen Age Ticket<\/p><\/div>\n

The building itself is very interesting – there is a celestial device on one wall (perhaps a sundial?) and a neat well.<\/p>\n

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The celestial wall<\/p><\/div>\n

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The well, with Aviva standing by<\/p><\/div>\n

They have the tapestries of the lady and the unicorn, which are in good shape and quite famous, along with some very cool paintings and wood crafts. We took a bunch of photos inside – hopefully they will come out and I can post them here. The bookstore had some very cool items, especially pillow covers in the form of the famous tapestries they have.<\/p>\n

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This is a wooden head we saw in the museum - there are lots of wierd, cool things to see in here!<\/p><\/div>\n

The following is quoted from their english pamphlet:<\/p>\n

“The antique city of Lut\u00c3\u00a9ce (Lutetia is the Roman name of Paris) developped from the 1st century onwards along the left bank of the Seine. The Gallo-Roman baths consisted, according to tradition, of large rooms for hot steam baths Caldarium<\/em>, for tepid baths tepidatium<\/em>, and the frigidarium<\/em> for cold-water baths, with additional common and service rooms, and underground passages for the heating system by hypocaust<\/em> and the sewers. The major part of these vestiges, especially the vaulted cold room fifteen metres high, still remain.”<\/p>\n

“Jacques d’Amboise, abbot of Cluny (1485-1510) in Burgundy, decided to reconstruct the Parisian residence of the abbots of Cluny, which has been established on this site since the 13th century. The U-shaped building enclosing an inner courtyard was surrounded by a stone wall and overlooked a garden on the north side. The inner layout of the hotel, remarkably well preserved on the whole, has been maintained. The chapel has a vaulted ceiling in the Flamboyant Gothic style.” (quoted from their pamphlet)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We went into St. Severin, where the organist was practicing and improvising. Our last stop of the day was the church of St. Julien le Pauvre, which has been converted to a Greek Orthodox church.<\/p>\n

Tonight we celebrated our anniversary with dinner at Paolo Petrini near the Arc de Triumph – the food was fabulous, very Italian and very good (but it wasn’t cheap).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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