| *DUPLICATE PHOTO WARNING* I realize I have taken countless photos of this thing on several trips, but you are not allowed to be within eyesight of the tower without taking a picture of it. I did just so I wouldn't get in trouble. |
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| Monsieur Eiffel. |
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| A drunk stuffed animal with a bottle of sangria. |
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| "I took a picture of the tower as required by law! Please don't shoot!" |
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| We had to wait thirty minutes for an RER train to the Musée d'Orsay. Stupid striking French transportation workers! |
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| This statue outside the museum is called "Jeune éléphant pris au piège" by Emmanuel Fremiet. No, I've never heard of him either. It's a young elephant caught in a trap. I'm not sure if the little monkey is the one that trapped him or he's just there laughing at the elephant. |
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| The Musée d'Orsay was once a train station. You may have figured that out from looking at it. |
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| I'm going to guess this was the original clock from the station. |
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| I don't know much about art but I know what I like. Boobs! This is "Tangara" by some fellow called Jean-Léon Gérôme. |
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| "La Nature se dévoilant à la Science" by Ernest Barrias has bigger knockers. Hey, I don't know a lot about this stuff, so I'll just point out what I can. |
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| Here's another one from Mr. Barrias. This one is called "Les chasseurs d'alligator" It would look good outside of Doak Campbell Stadium. |
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| You may know Auguste Rodin for his sculpture "The Thinker". This one is called "L'Homme qui marche". |
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| A skinny broad with little tits. I knew that Henri Matisse painted, but I didn't know he did sculpture as well. Anyway, she's called "La Serpentine". |
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| Edgar Degas particularly liked to paint dancers. This is "Danseuse au bouquet, saluant". |
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| This is called "La Danse" by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, but I like to call it "Hey ladies, don't fight! There's enough of me to go around!" |
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| Lunch at the Paris Orsay brasserie down the street from the museum. |
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| Excuse me, madam, which station is this? |
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| *DUPLICATE PHOTO WARNING* I wanted to see if the sex shop I photographed ten years earlier was still there near the Gare du Nord. It is. |
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| *DUPLICATE PHOTO WARNING* According to Wikipedia, the Gare de Nord was designed by French architect Jacques Hittorff and was built between 1861 and 1864. So there you have it. |
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| It's almost time to leave. |
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| We kept our luggage in locker 119-01. |
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| Lots of people looking up at the big departure board waiting to see which track from which their train will leave. When the board changed, masses of people moved in one direction or the other. |
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| *DUPLICATE PHOTO WARNING* That's our 7:13 p.m. train at the bottom. |
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