GIRODET

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I’m quite excited that I'm now officially a ‘professional’ member of The Louvre and went to see their exhibition on Girodet. He was originally a pupil of David’s and a pioneer of French Romanticism and it’s a beautiful exhibition full of atmosphere and sensuous figures. I particularly liked his attention to detail and resolved to find out more about him.

Then on the metro, as I was musing about the exhibition and about how every station seems to have its own resident tramp, and how there are an awful lot of deaf people in Paris (do they sign in French?), I saw a man being arrested by the armed police. After slapping his face quite forcefully a couple of times, they handcuffed him and led him away. Life is certainly eventful here.