Bonjour!
Today was our first full day in Paris! We started the day off with an amazing breakfast of croissants, hot chocolate, coffee, orange juice, jam, apricot sauce and baguette. We first went to the Musée du Cluny. The Cluny museum is a big stone building that is home to tons of artifacts displaying both home life, and religious practice in 12th century France. We saw large stone carved pieces of old buildings, and tapestries depicting both religious and mystical scenes. After spending a good amount of time in the museum and the courtyard, we walked along the Seine river and walked across the lock bridge, which is so full of locks that they had to board it up! We had intended to buy sketchbooks, but the store was closed so we walked back into the center of Paris to Le Fontaine de Saint Michel, a big fountain that has Saint Michel killing the devil and spouting water out of some gargoyles. There was also a whole baguette floating in the fountain, yeah France! We got crêpes (again), and then met Arthur, a Putney Alum from '56 who gave us a walking tour of Paris full of little tidbits about Paris history. After that, we went to a Russian film festival where we met Angelo's parents and brother! It was so lovely to have a connection to our lives back at Putney.
I promise there will be lots of photos soon!
Bon Nuit!
The France Trip
(Oliva, Cazo, Maeve, Lucie, Ben, Dalton, Henry, and Izzy)