Adjacent to Les Invalides was the Rodin Museum.
Unfortunately for us, the museum building was closed due to renovation (an inconvenient circumstance which we seemed to have encountered more frequently than usual on this trip. It might simply have been bad luck, or more likely, the attractions were all priming for the start of the peak season).
So we just wandered around in the garden, which featured some of Rodin's works.
Dinner: Opera Mandarin
Unfortunately for us, the museum building was closed due to renovation (an inconvenient circumstance which we seemed to have encountered more frequently than usual on this trip. It might simply have been bad luck, or more likely, the attractions were all priming for the start of the peak season).
So we just wandered around in the garden, which featured some of Rodin's works.
The Three Shades
The Gates of Hell
Many of his works - including The Three Shades and The Thinker - were precursors to this one.
The allegories on this masterful bronze sculpture might be better understood by those who had read Dante's Inferno, which served as the inspiration.
Monument to Victor Hugo
Fallen Caryatid with Urn
As much as I do enjoy Rodin's works, it did get depressing after a while - all the solemn faces and bodies contorted in agony. Luckily, a flurry friend showed and cheered me right up.
Culminating the visit, the most famous of Rodin's works - The Thinker
Dinner: Opera Mandarin
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