France Impressions

France Impressions is a blog about my travels throughout France. Travel is about embarking on journeys, discovering new places, its people, learning from others and in particular, learning about oneself. I believe travel is an art and I like to craft trips and tours around your personality, interests, desires and dreams. I undertake to open for you 'doors that are normally closed" thereby ensuring you gain access to exclusive experiences while introducing you to extraordinary personalities.

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

You say Monet and I say Manet................

Exceptional Manet Exhibit Opening at the d'Orsay Museum

Une petite reminder... The extraordinary exhibition: “Manet: the Man who Invented Modern Art” opens at the d’Orsay Museum in Paris on April 5th. This will be a hugely popular museum event, so you'll likely want to reserve tickets online in advance or obtain tickets from your hotel concierge.

Why France?

First, there is the land itself. From Cape Finistere to the Riviera, via the Alps, The Dordogne and Provence…there is no more beautiful or varied landscape in the world. I drive regularly in France and have to always stop and get out and reassure myself that this is not a dream. It is unfair on the competition because it is at least six countries in one.

Its artistic legacy grows richer year by year. Just in one place, the Musee d’Orsay; one room after another with visions of such genius, that you wonder if it’s an optical illusion. Millet, Courbet, Degas, Cezanne, Monet, Renoir and on and on…hundreds and hundreds of serene works so deeply connected to the country that had produced them.

Within the countryside and depictions of it, there are the buildings. Versailles, The Sacre Coeur, Parisian townhouses or the great Provencal farmhouses with their turquoise-blue shutters are certainly admired. But I think if France is really in your blood you really have to love those undistinguished small villages and towns – The hotel de Ville with its black slate roof, the cobbled square, narrow shuttered streets –all somehow suggestive of intrigue and clandestine romance.

The wine of course, still remains the worlds best. The food, well what can I say..its the most important thing that attracts me to France; before, now and always.

But its greatest natural resource is of course, its people. They can be proud, they can be shy, they are almost always private and hard to get to know, but I have never laughed as much or found greater friendship or greater generosity of spirit than in France.

~ H.E. Lewis

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

You say Monet and I say Manet................

Why France?

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

You say Monet and I say Manet................

Why France?

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