1999-03-16

• Le Musee D'Orsay.
  • [click for picture] The main hall.
  • [click for picture] "Anacreon", one of Phil's favorites.
  • "Pan Et Oursons" ("Pan And Bears").
    • [click for picture] A devilish grin.
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    • [click for picture] The young bears are eating honeycomb.
    • [click for picture] What's this? A bearskin?
    • [click for picture] a large bearskin. Pan has wrapped it around his leg. Did he kill the mother, or happen upon this scene?
  • [click for picture] "Mercure Inventant Le Caducee" ("Mercury Inventing The Cadeucus").
  • [click for picture] An artist replicates Paul Cezanne's "Pommes Et Oranges" ("Apples And Oranges").
  • "Femme Piquee Par Un Serpent" ("Woman Bitten By A Serpent").
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    • [click for picture] Note the blank expression.
    • [click for picture] Note the gripping of the cloth. I don't think the snake bracelet is the serpent of the title, but i saw no other serpent in the sculpture.
    • [click for picture] The rose under her shoulder.
• [click for picture] Angelique, Sonya's friend and our guide.
• The Catacombs, 6 million dead buried under Paris.
  • [click for picture] Moss growing on the ceiling.
  • [click for picture] "Stop! This is the Empire of the Dead".
  • [click for picture] WARNING: Not for the faint of heart. A cross.
  • [click for picture] WARNING: Not for the faint of heart. An altar surrounded.
  • [click for picture] A parting message: "Don't treat as dead that which continues to live.". A reminder to, despite what you've just seen, remember that you're alive.
• We had dinner in a converted Gothic Cathedral.
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• [click for picture] A funny sign in a shop window.