Rest of my week in Paris

I worked hard during my week in Paris at the lab with a young colleague on some new ideas for accessing the social presence of people interacting with an artificial agent.  When I left the lab each evening, I went off to do whatever else seemed interesting.  On Tuesday, I went chocolate shopping.  Parisians now produce really outstanding chocolate, and my favorite shop is Un Dimanche a Paris.  I went there to get chocolate for family and some friends.  I also went to the grocery store to get some breakfast yogurt since I have a fridge in my hotel.   I also had dinner at a creperie as I love crepes!

On Thursday night (my last evening in Paris) even though it was raining cats and dogs, I took the subway and then walked 2 blocks to the Musee D'Orsay, which is probably my favorite museum in all of Paris.  It is dedicated to 19th century art, especially that of the Impressionists.  They had a special exhibit on Impressionist painting and their representation of Paris fashions of the time.  They coupled a marvelous collection of paintings from the MO and borrowed from other museums (including Boston's Museum of Fine Arts) to show Impressionist examples of Parisian dress with actual dresses, and some men's fashions of the times.  It was wonderful to see the physical versions of what was painted in 2D.  Of course some of the dresses were for women with 16" waists, but some obviously had belonged to older women who were not so svelt.  I did not take photos as the exhibit was very crowded, but here is one of the paintings from the exhibit.  You can find more and rather nice online version of the exhibit at: http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/in-the-musee-dorsay/exhibitions-in-the-musee-dorsay/article/limpressionnisme-et-la-mode-30634.html?tx_ttnews[backPid]=254&cHash=91636ff9e2



It was a wonderful way to end my stay!