Current Exhibition: Musée de l'Orangerie: Jardin des Tuileries
What: Musée de l'Orangerie: Jardin des Tuileries, 75001 Paris.
Web site:
www.musee-orangerie.fr or
www.rmn.frUnderground: Concorde.
Phone: 01 44 77 80 07.
Open Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday-Monday, 12:30 p.m.-7 p.m.; Friday, 12:30 p.m.-9 p.m.
Closed Tuesday.
Admission: €7.70. Through March 5.
A new temporary exhibition is currently taking place at the renovated Musée de l'Orangerie.
The curators of the original show wanted to illustrate the "spirit of realism" that they saw as a characteristic of French painting from the time of the primitives to Chardin and Corot. Today's curator, sees this spirit manifested in the "intimate relationship" between real life and the painter, and through him the viewer.
You will be able to enjoy paintings by well-known 20th-century painters such as Magritte, Picasso, Léger, Balthus, and Maurice Denis
For the general public, the exhibition offers a lot of styles: portraits, still lifes, landscapes, genre paintings, and historical and biblical scenes, with little to tie them together except the fact that they were painted in the 17th century.
De la Tour's famous "The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds," is also on show, and it's fun to compare the latter with the versions of it painted by Robert Humblot and Balthus in the 20th-century section of the exhibition. The eyes of the subjects in de la Tour's canvas clue the viewer into the scam that is occurring, with the cheaters casting meaningful looks at each other, while the hapless victim's eyes are trustingly cast downward. es down at the floor off to the side.
Don't miss the amusing "Allégorie de l'Air, ou La Chasse de la Duchesse Nicole de Lorraine," by C. Deruet, an all-female hunting scene in which numerous elegantly dressed ladies, many of them holding falcons, sit decorously on their steeds, with the exception of one, who is most indecorously falling off her horse, with legs flying up in the air.
Paris Sightseeing Bus/ Museum Passes/ Metro Passes/Packages
| RoissyBus | Provides the most Cheapest transfer to or from Charles de Gaulle airport Price $11 |
La Carte-2 Day
Museum Pass | La Carte opens the doors of over 70 museum. Price $42 |
L'Open Tour
(2 day) | Double deck open bus. There are several bus routes to choose from which explore most of the city:
The Eiffel Tower, Champs-Elysées, Arc de Triomphe, and Concorde Madeleine, Opéra, Musée du Louvre, Notre-Dame. Every day from 10 am Adult $41/Child $18 |
5 Day Metro/bus Pass
(Zone 1-5) | Provides unlimited travel for five consecutive days (zones 1 to 5) Adult $69 /Child $32 |
Package |
2 Roissy Bus tickets
1 La Carte 2 day Museum pass
1 L' Open 2 day Tour
1 5 days Metro/Bus( zone 1-5)
Price $170 |
3 Day Metro/bus Pass
(Zone 1-3) | Provides unlimited travel for three consecutive days- zones 1 to 3. Adult $32 / Child $15 |
NATIONAL HOLIDAYS in FRANCE
There are 10 of them, during those days banks, administration, shops are usually closed.
January1st (New year);
May 1st (labor day) and May 8th (Second World War in Europe),
Monday of "Pâques" (Resurrection Of Jesus),
Thursday of "Ascension" ;
July 14th (Bastille day);
August 15th (Assomption);
1st of November (Toussaint) et Novembre 11th (Armistice) ;
December 25th (Noël).
School Calanders: Years, 2005-2006, 2006-2007.
Zone A : Caen, Clermont-Ferrand, Grenoble, Lyon, Montpellier, Nancy-Metz, Nantes, Rennes, Toulouse.
Zone B : Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Besançon, Dijon, Lille, Limoges, Nice, Orléans-Tours, Poitiers, Reims, Rouen, Strasbourg.
Zone C : Bordeaux, Créteil, Paris, Versailles.
Years: 2005-2006
| | Zone A | Zone B | Zone C |
Teachers entrance
| Septembre 1st, 2005 |
Students entrance
| Friday, September 2005 |
| Toussaint | Saturday, October 22 2005 Thursday, November 3rd 2005 |
| Christmas | Saturday, December 17th 2005Tuesday, January 3rd 2006 |
| Winter | February 18th 2006 March 6th 2006 | February 11th
February 27th
| February 4th
February 20th
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| Spring | April 22nd 2006
May 9th 2006 | April 15 2006
May 2nd, 2007
| April 8th 2006 |
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Years: 2006-2007 | | Zone A | Zone B | Zone C |
Teachers Entrance
| September 1st, 2006 |
Students Entrance
| September 4th, 2006 |
| Toussaint | October 25th 2006 , November 6th, 2006 |
| Christmas | December 23rd, 2006 January 8th, 2007 |
| Winter | February 10th 2007 February 26th 2007 | February 24 2007 March 12th 2007 | February, 17th, 2007
March 5th, 2007 |
| Spring | march 31st 2007 April 2007 | April 14th 2007
May 2nd, 2007 | April 7th 2007
April 23rd, 2007 |
Summer Vacation
| July 4th, 2007 |
BATOBUS: Use the Seine to get around Paris!
The Eight stops of the Bateau Mouche
Tour Eiffel, Port de la Bourdonnais, 7ème arrondissement
Champs-Elysées, Port des Champs-Elysées, 8ème arrondissement
Musée d'Orsay, Quai Solférino, 7ème arrondissement
Louvre, Quai du Louvre, 1er arrondissement
Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Quai Malaquais, 6ème arrondissement
Hôtel de Ville, Quai de l'Hôtel de Ville, 4ème arrondissement
Notre Dame, Quai de Montebello, 5ème arrondissement
Jardin des Plantes, Quai Saint-Bernard, 5ème arrondissement
Prices:
Billet demie-boucle (trajet unique de 4 escales maximum): 7,5 € (enfants de -12 ans : 3,5€)
Forfait 1 jour : 11€ (enfants de -12 ans : 5€)
Forfait 2 jours : 12,5 € (enfants de -12 ans : 6,5 €)
Forfait Escapade valable un mois : 22€ (enfants de -12 ans : 12€)
Forfait Saison : 50 € (enfants de -12ans : 30€)
Des tarifs spécifiques sont accordés aux porteurs de cartes oranges, cartes étudiantes et cartes familles nombreuses.
Informations:
Compagnie des Batobus
Port de la Bourdonnais, 75007 Paris
Tél. : 01 44 11 33 99
Use the Bateau-Mouche as an alternative to the Metro or Bus
The Eight stops of the Bateau Mouche
Tour Eiffel, Port de la Bourdonnais, 7ème arrondissement
Champs-Elysées, Port des Champs-Elysées, 8ème arrondissement
Musée d'Orsay, Quai Solférino, 7ème arrondissement
Louvre, Quai du Louvre, 1er arrondissement
Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Quai Malaquais, 6ème arrondissement
Hôtel de Ville, Quai de l'Hôtel de Ville, 4ème arrondissement
Notre Dame, Quai de Montebello, 5ème arrondissement
Jardin des Plantes, Quai Saint-Bernard, 5ème arrondissement
Prices:
Billet demie-boucle (trajet unique de 4 escales maximum): 7,5 € (enfants de -12 ans : 3,5€)
Forfait 1 jour : 11€ (enfants de -12 ans : 5€)
Forfait 2 jours : 12,5 € (enfants de -12 ans : 6,5 €)
Forfait Escapade valable un mois : 22€ (enfants de -12 ans : 12€)
Forfait Saison : 50 € (enfants de -12ans : 30€)
Des tarifs spécifiques sont accordés aux porteurs de cartes oranges, cartes étudiantes et cartes familles nombreuses.
Informations:
Compagnie des Batobus
Port de la Bourdonnais, 75007 Paris
Tél. : 01 44 11 33 99
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Rembrandt Celebration : Visit 4 Paris Exhibitions
We recommend that everyone take advantage of Rembrandt celebration to visit four Paris exhibitions of his works on paper.
In the Louvre's: show of 64 drawings, most of them from French public and private collections.
The three other shows concentrate on Rembrandt's etchings. The Petit Palais is exhibiting 180 from its collection, among them a number of the famous self-portraits.
A small show at the Institut Néerlandais, "Rembrandt et son Entourage," shows many of the same etchings as the exhibition at the Petit Palais, with the advantage that each one is accompanied by an explanatory text (in French)
You could admire the lovely portrait of Jan Six (1647) reading by a window, the trussed sow about to be slaughtered (1643), the door-to-door rat poison vendor (1632) and several of the same self-portraits, but there is also a masterly depiction of a shell (1650) and a lively genre scene, "The Kouck Maker" (1635) showing a woman making crepes in the street.
This show will be followed by two others at the Institut Néerlandais: "Rembrandt et les Femmes" (through February 4) and "Rembrandt: Bouquet Final" (through March 11).
At the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, you could see about 150 pieces from its collection also includes many of the same images, this exhibition has the advantage of presenting many (up to 11) stages of a number of the etchings, allowing the viewer to follow the artist's thinking as he modulated the image to change expression, mood or lighting.
More about the 4 exhibits places:
Musée du Louvre: Hall Napoléon. Métro: Palais Royal. Tel.: 01 40 20 53 17. General admission: €8.50. Open Wednesday and Friday 9 a.m.-10 p.m.; Monday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Closed Tuesday. Through January 8.
www.louvre.frPetit Palais/Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris : Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris. Métro: Champs-Elysées Clemenceau. Tel.: 01 53 43 40 00. Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m., until 8 p.m. on Tuesday. Closed Monday and public holidays. Admission: €9. Through January 14.
www.petitpalais.paris.frInstitut Néerlandais: 121, rue de Lille, 75007 Paris. Métro: Assemblée-Nationale. Tel.: 01 53 59 12 40. Open Tuesday-Sunday, 1 p.m.-7 p.m. Closed Monday. Admission: €6. Through December 3.
www.institutneerlandais.comBibliothèque Nationale de France: 58, rue de Richelieu, 75002 Paris. Métro: Bourse. Tel.: 01 53 79 59 59. Open Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday, noon-7 p.m. Closed Monday and public holidays. Admission: €7. Through January 7.
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The Oldest Hospital In Paris -HÔTEL-DIEU - near the Cathedral Notre Dame
The Oldest Hospital In Paris -HÔTEL-DIEU -
The Hôtel-Dieu was founded in 651. It remains the oldest hospital in Paris. It represents both charity and hospitality and is today situated in front of the cathedral Notre-Dame.
Originally, a rather small building, it was constructed between the VIIth and the XVIIth centuries on the left bank of the "Ile de la Cité". Numerous fires, last one of which occurred in 1772 when major reconstructions became necessary, destroyed it.
It became, under the Second Empire, what it is now; the little public garden where one can admire the statue of Charlemagne now replaces the oldest buildings, which stretched then along the river Seine.
Until 1908, when the new regulations entitled the Church and the State to be treated separately, medical care was given by the Augustine Sisters of the Hotel-Dieu.
The Hotel-Dieu owes its reputation to the efficiency of its masters specialized in medicine and surgery who healed and taught. Among the famous ones, one can name Bichat, Dupuytren, Trousseau and Claude Bernard.
The old pavilion architecture was replaced by symmetrical structures. The inner yards of walking ways and vegetable gardens became surgery wards, general medical care rooms, shops and parking lots.
The main courtyard was redecorated in 1975 in the style of French garden. The main entrance was turned out in welcome hallways.
The wards with high ceilings were rebuilt on two different levels and given a new medical infrastructure. The Hôtel-Dieu has today 349 beds 224 of which are meant to be for medicine patients, 96 for surgery patients, 17 for the psychiatric wards and 12 to be orientated to emergency services.
The Hotel-Dieu remains today the first center to house emergency casualties in Paris. 32 beds welcome patients for day hospitalization.
The Hôtel-Dieu, both university and local hospital, is open to the public. It remains with the Collégiale (5th arr.), the Dental Surgery, Garancière (6th arr.) and Jean Délibéros (9th arr.), which are, linked together, the only hospital of the 9th first districts of Paris.
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