Walter dans le métro

The Concorde Bridge connects the Place de la Concorde on the Right Bank to the Assemblée Nationale (the lower house of the French legislature) on the Left Bank. About a block away from the Assembly building is the entrance to the métro station I was headed for.

Here's my train! At the Assemblée Nationale station.

It wasn't long before I arrived at my hotel and picked up my back-up camera battery. I was back on the platform at the Cardinal Lemoine station in no time, ready to head back over the Rodin museum to meet my cousin and his wife. I had seven stops, a transfer, then two more stops. I made it more or less on time.

Waiting for the train at the Cardinal Lemoine station next to my hotel.

Mark and Julie were already there, browsing around in the museum gift shop. There was practically no line at the entrance and I paid my for my ticket and we were in. The museum is in the Hotel Biron, an eighteenth century mansion with an extensive garden in the middle of Paris. The building was in a sad state of repair when Rodin occupied it in the early 1900s. The national government bought and renovated the building after Rodin bequeathed his works to the people of France, stipulating that a museum be built around his collection at the site.