Paris Architecture

This is a building at the southeast corner of the Jardins du Ranelagh in Paris 16e. We were on our way to the Musée Marmottan, for an unusual exhibition of impressionist paintings from private collections.

The museum is a mecca anyway for French impressionism, having benefitted from a stream of gifts and bequests, including that of Monet's Impression: Soleil Levant, which literally provided the name for the impressionist movement. It's a modest but wonderfully composed painting of a sunrise which is given pride of place in the museum (the image in the Wiki link doesn't really do it justice).

It's late-we've just been watching two hour episodes of a five-hour documentary on World War I on television, with incredible movie footage. Utterly absorbing and heartwrenching. Two more episodes next week.