Visit to a part of Roman Paris 3-25-15

Today was a pretty day so we decided to take a trip to the Musee de Cluny,  across from the Sorbonne right on Boulevard St. Michel.  Two buses got us within 1 block and walking into the courtyard took us right into the middle ages.  It was the Paris abbey of the Cluniacs and the first hostel on the pilgrims road to Santiago de Compostela.  Interestingly it was a cardinals residence at some point if the carvings in the gable ends are to be believed.  But it was also a public bath in Roman times and as happened to so many buildings from that era it was appropriated by the Catholic church for their uses.  We have been to the museum before but for whatever reason we could only recall seeing the tapestries showing the virgins and the Unicorns, and the roman bath area which had many of the artifacts from Notre Dame that had been recently discovered in  their resting places after the ravages of the French Revolution when they destroyed so many of the religious objects. 



Be that as it may this time we really went through in some detail and found out what a bunch of bumblers we must have been last time.  There were really beautiful tapestries, household items, furniture, and sculpture that should have not been missed the first time but were ignored in our haste. 















These are the angels of the Shotglass















We spent about an hour in the museum and then left for lunch, which we took at a small cafeteria around the corner and turned out to be a very pleasant experience.  After lunch we went back in to the museum and completed our close inspection.