On Monday we went to Musee Carnavalet. It is the museum of the City of Paris which moves through the history of Paris in a series of rooms that combine painting, sculpture, photography, city models and actual period rooms, furniture and all, which document Paris and the Parisians from medieval to modern times.

This is a scuplture of Louis the XIV, the “Sun King”. His outfit is VERY roman.

This is from a bridge that was destroyed during the Revolution

These dainty men are part of a larger painting that also got ruined during the revolution. This was the only piece of the painting that was restored. These men were VERY important and powerful in France during their time. It’s interesting how truly dainty they look. What you can’t see in these pictures is how life-like their faces are. It was actually surprising how alive they looked.

I would love to have this chaise in my house.

This room was my favorite room BY FAR. We actually only went into this room to stall while another group was in the room we were going to next. This room is a Jewelry Boutique from the early late 20th century. It was very whimsical.

These are actually locks of Marie-Antoinette’s hair! creeeeepy, right? These are pieces of jewlery with her hair. On the left is a ring with braided hair and the on the right is a locket with her hair. It is a little unsettling at first but weren’t giving locks of hair a gesture of love?

In this same museum there was a room with all the furniture from the prison Marie-Antoinette occupied at the end of her life. All though the room looked comfortable and filly to us today, it was truly a prison to Marie-Antoinette who had been living in luxury that none of us could ever imagine. It was also a prison because she was waiting to be put to death and watching her husband and children taken away from her one by one either by death or by force to another prison.

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