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Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags book review, C.G.T., cruise, France, French Line, Le Havre, New York city, Normandy, poster, The New Yorker, transatlantic liner on May 7, 2024 by xi'an
impression, soleil couchant
Posted in pictures, Running with tags Bagneux, Claude Monet, Le Havre, Marmottan, Paris, sunrise, sunset on October 11, 2014 by xi'an
As the sunset the day before had been magnificent [thanks to the current air pollution!], I attempted to catch it from a nice spot and went to the top of the nearby hill. The particles were alas (!) not so numerous that evening and so I only got this standard view of the sun going down. Incidentally, I had read a few days earlier in the plane from Vienna that the time and date when Monet’s Impression, Soleil Levant was painted had been identified by a U.S. astronomer as 7h35 on the 13th of Novembre 1872. In Le Havre, Normandy. An exhibit in the nearby Musée Marmottan retraces this quest…
