Flat Stanley Montréal visits the Musée d'Orsay with Paul's class

Friday, January 28th, 2011, our Flat Stanley guest from just outside Montréal went with my son Paul's 3rd grade class to visit the Musée d'Orsay.

Here's Flat Stanley with Inès' mom ...



FS in front of a large poster of Renoir's "Moulin de la Galette"



Waiting in line to enter the museum...



A view of the Légion d'Honneur Museum...



Still waiting... A view of some of the sculptures on the museum esplanade...









a view towards the Seine River...




Playing Beyblades to pass the time...



The rhino sculpture



FS, Paul and some of his classmates...



FS and Van Gogh...



It's forbidden to take photos inside the museum, so here are some images of a few of the works of art that we learned about thanks to our wonderful "conférencière" named Isabelle ...

Millet's "Les Glaneuses"



Thomas Couture's "Les Romains de la décadence"
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Degas' "La Classe de danse"



Renoir's "Danse à la ville"



Rodin's "Les Portes de l'enfer"



Van Gogh's "L'Eglise d'Auvers sur Oise"



Paul's class, ready to head back to school...




FS and the class...



A typical, Parisian "kiosque à journaux"...



French mailboxes :



The entrance to the high-speed metro, called the RER, that we took to return to school...



The ticket machine...



Going down the escalator... The RER is further underground than the métro



Here's the map



An iPad ad in French !



FS and the kids inside the train...