Thanksgiving in Paris...

Thanksgiving dinner is not something I usually associate with Paris, but one of my eagle-eyed Canadian friends here noticed that the Canadian pub near the corner of rue St-Michel and the Quai des Augustins was having a Thanksgiving dinner special today. And since I'd been feeling sorry for myself for missing my Thanksgiving dinner back home, it seemed just the thing.

Not that one can really feel sorry for oneself for eating Parisian food - !

The adventure of the day was going to the Musee Cluny, the town house of the medieval abbot of Cluny, transformed into a museum, famous for the tapestry series La Dame a la Licorne (The Lady and the Unicorn) from the late 15th century.

You'd think that, being devoted to medieval art, the Musee Cluny would be one of my favourite places on earth, and of course I love it. But I like the Cloisters in New York more. The think about the Musee Cluny is that it's mostly full of very late medieval art, especially 15th century art, and Northern European art, that I don't love nearly as much as the early medieval period, or the Mediterranean art. I wondered if it were that so much art was destroyed in the Hundred Years War.

Still. Wonderful.

Photos of the day:

1. On the bridge we have to cross to get off the island, there are small locks ( in the mesh... )

2. The Musee Cluny. ( Highlander fans... )

3. Inside the Musee Cluny: ( Judgement. )

4. ( Heads of kings from Notre-Dame Cathedral. )

5. ( Musee Cluny. )

6. Baby Saint John, ( with a cool toy... )

7. ( The Unicorn Tapestry. )

8. ( The Unicorn looks at its reflection. )

9. ( The Unicorn and the Monkey. )

10. ( Wood carving. )

11. ( A Book of Hours. )

12. ( Four partridges. )

13. ( The courtyard of the Musee Cluny... )

14. ( Four Canadians having a Parisian Thanksgiving dinner... )