07 September 2023
Le Louvre
After walking around in the Marais neighborhood in July 2013, I took a stroll through the Louvre. It was a Friday afternoon. Years earlier, in March 1970, I had visited the Musée du Louvre. Where the glass pyramid stands now, there was a parking lot. I had a hard time finding the entrance to the museum. It was simply another door in one of the dingy gray building that made up the palace, with no signage. Things have changed.
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They sure have changed! I remember it being such a nondescript entrance.
ReplyDeleteIt was my first time in Paris alone. My visit to the central market at les Halles was kind of scary. It was dark and damp that day, and the market halls were being taken down. The scene was chaotic. My visit to the Louvre was confusing because I couldn't find the entrance to the museum. Then I went to Versailles and walked around in a snowstorm. It all seems asurreal now.
DeleteSorry, I meant surreal, of course. Writing a comment on a y2tablet is never easy.
Deletewe could have run into each other in 1970 as that's when I was in Paris for my Jr year and we had 2 classes a week at the Louvre
ReplyDeleteI was on the Vanderbilt study abroad program in Aix for the first half of 1970. I spent my two-week spring break in Paris in March, plus a long May 1 weekend holiday, and and then another one or two weeks there before flying back to North Carolina in June.
DeleteThe I. M . Pei pyramid sure ties the whole place together. It was a smart design.
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