Sunday 28th August, 2011 Paris, France Our hotel balcony near the Place d’Italie looks out over the city skyline, and if I stand at the very edge, and look to the Right, I can see the top half of the Eiffel Tower. As all good tourists in Paris, we went to see it up close yesterday. Us and thousands of others. This was after our visit to the Musee d’Orsay, (8 euros)which has a fantastic collection of art pieces from the impressionists and post-impressionists; Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Sisley, Van gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Pissarro, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Edouard Vuillard, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Henri-Edmond Delacroix, (in fact anyone who was anyone in the art movement in the late 19th Century) and many more. The gallery is HUGE. The building was
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