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Arrive on foot or by metro at the Musée d'Orsay and get the best from it by taking time. The museum is housed in an old station with the clock still in pride of place. It is the gallery to see the Impressionists: Monet's Rouen cathedral, Van Gogh’s self portraits, Whistler's mother, as well as Millet, Cézanne and Gauguin. The ground floor sculpture gallery surprises everyone. Name it, it is here, especially if Rodin sculpted it. |
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A short walk down the Rue de la Seine is St Germain des Prés and the Latin Quarter. Have a drink at the Deux Magots, full of tourists but still keeping the feel of its left wing literary past. Walk on down the Boulevard St Germain to the Boulevard St Michel, home of the Université de Paris.
Soak in the student atmosphere of the Sorbonne, ignoring the bustle of tourists. There may be more visitors than intellectuals but the place has a vibrancy and bustle that is special being France's oldest university centre.
The area is stacked with second hand bookshops, including those specialising in English books, and masses of bistros. Try to find one with good traditional onion soup. Be wary of the over priced ones on the main roads and instead dart down the side streets.
The area also has some of Paris's oldest relics, the Gallo-Roman baths near Cluny which are the remains of the ancient Roman city on this site, the Eglise St-Etienne du Mont which is the memorial to St Geneviève, Paris's patron saint.
For a change of pace and a picnic there is the Jardin du Luxembourg, dedicated to the children of Paris by Napoléon. The old carousel and the playgrounds are fun and also the Botanic Gardens.
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