A week with the Freemans

Yes, we have a lift, the size of a telephone booth. Thank God it goes to the 5th floor!
The usual temptation - choclate eclairs are full of ...chocolate inside..not whipped creame.. Rhonda liked them anyway.
This is the Musee Nissim de Camondo. An aristocratic home of a very wealthy Prussion banker. He it built modeled after the Petit Trianon at Versailles to fill it with his amassed collection of rare 18th C furntiure, sculputres, & paintings. His Sephardic Jewish family ended with the son being killed in an air battle in 1917. His daughter, her husband and grandchildren all ended up in Auswitch. Amazing to be in the home after finishing reading Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky, about the life of the French during the German occupation. What happened to France during this past century?

This was a fully working kitchen with a side room for the 18 servants to eat their meals.
Marie Antionette's needlepoint table.
This stairway up is "the snail".
This little steet or "passageway" holds Le Precope restaurant cafe from 1686. Some famous guests including Robspierre and Benjamin Franklin.
The original street was very difficult to walk on.

Elmo says.. this is far.. .. and this is near.

We went to the Musee Marmottan Monet expecting to see Monets and Impressionists.. as well there was a wonderful 13/14thC illuminated manuscript collection. "He also made the stars" (Genesis 1:16) I always wondered how God did that! For him, it was so simple.

Jane took this when the guard was not in the room.
More interesting doorways.

This lady was most pleased to have her photo snapped whilst taking her afternoon cafe.