musee carnavalet
Posted on | June 24, 2010 | No Comments
an online soapmaking friend suggested that we visit the musee carnavalet and we found ourselves wandering in that direction today, after a breakfast cooked by maurice, of spanish omelette and toast and that’s the end of the poilane bread.
baguette tomorrow!
it’s a gorgeous museum housed in two huge old neighbouring mansions in the marais, just a couple of blocks from our apartment, and focuses on the history of paris through art, furniture, objets, archeological bits and pieces…
roaming through the dimly-lit chandeliered beautiful salons with pastel ornate plaster work, gilt everything and plenty of mirrors, it all felt a bit dangerous liaisions to say the least.
i enjoyed myself immensely even though i didn’t get to see napolean’s very favourite toiletries case (god it is so hard to get a decent one, is it not?).
all of the signs were in french so we really only had the haziest idea of what was going on…fortunately we could look at the 17th, 18th and 19th century paintings of paris and orientate ourselves….it’s still all pretty much the same today.
for a complete change of pace we stopped at muji on the way home and bought a pair of socks.
and an enormous meringue with chocolat, to share.
then we turned a corner and we were suddenly in the jewish quarter…..with kippa-clad guys selling felafels, bagels in the bakeries, really good delis, and diamond studded stars of david in the shop windows. it was literally from one side of a building to another.
we saw paris’ answer to amy winehouse crunched down in a boutique doorway, smoking a cigarette and looking all very heroin-chic and derelicte (as they would say in zoolander).
we walked around for a bit, and suddenly we were back on the rue de rivoli and a short stroll from the apartment.
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