Another day another visit, Carnavalet revisited 4-30-15

Today it's rainy and cool and expected to continue for several days.   We are having a new maple tree delivered by the man who provides plants and maintenance for the patio garden in our apartment.  So while Deb waited I did a little shopping, as tomorrow is May 1st a national holiday.   While I was out the men arrived with the tree.  We expected that they may take a couple hours, but it turned out to be less than 45 minutes.   We are short one washer for the automatic irrigation but definitely one small fix away from having a completed garden.   Deb has been buying plants (surprised?) to complement the flowering bushes and trees, so we'll have a colorful deck through the summer.

After the tree was done we had a bit of lunch and headed back to the Musee Carnavalet, to pick up where we left off yesterday.  So today we focused on the 19th century and the pre-historic and roman times in Paris.

It was very interesting to see the documents that essentially ended Napoleon's French empire and set the stage for the return of the French kings with alternating republics when there would be an internal revolt and the kings thrown out.   











The wanted poster for Napoleon upon his return to France after escaping from captivity



Also very interesting were the artifacts from 4500bce up to the Roman era.   It was a bit disjointed from a temporal approach but who cares, we are after all Flaneurs.



Roman Plumbob