We visited Paris Sept 12-21, staying as usual at the Hotel Jacques de Molay. Since we've been there a number of times before I'll confine the photos here to exhibits we saw in various museums -- but first the wonderful rebuilt Notre Dame cathedral. The map shows the location of the Hotel Jacques de Molay (as a push-pin, upper right) and Notre Dame in the lower left -- just down the street (Rue des Archives, not labeled in the map).
Here are some of the intricately carved and painted sections of the frieze inside Notre Dame Cathedral depicting the life of Jesus. They are just as I recall from years ago except freshly painted.
We visited the Petit Palais on the advice of a woman we met drinking beer at a cafe. It's a fairly small museum but it's free and everything in it is really good.
We visited the Cluny Musée de Moyen Age. We've been there many times, but now their renovations are complete. It's quite modern and I'm afraid we found it a bit sterile. We both prefered the old, cluttered Cluny. Also the ruins of the Roman bathhouse were closed, which was disappointing.
Now the big old Louvre. I found it very amusing that the exhibit of impressionist paintings is located in a part of Richelieu that in order to get to one has to go through a large, boring display of empty frames. Apparently the bequest that gave these paintings, which otherwise would probably be in d'Orsay, specified that all the works must be exhibited. It looks to me like the Louvre follows that requirement somewhat unwillingly and tries to make them hard to find.
Speaking of which, here are some of the exhibits from the Musée d'Orsay.
And finally the Musée Rodin, which was new to us.
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