TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2008

Today, Janet and Carl went off to visit the Musée d'Orsay. Alexandria and Erwin had been there many times so we let them go by themselves. In the afternoon, Alexandria and Erwin went to the

Institut du Monde Arab.

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We went to the Institut du Monde Arabe specifically to see the special exhibition called Bonaparte et l'Égypte. It was an interesting display about Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt and the cultural effects of the invasion. We also looked at an exhibition about Oum Kalsoum, a legendary "voice of the Arabs" who was a revered singer in Egypt in the first half of the 20th century.

This evening we had dinner at A la Biche au Bois, another of the smaller local restaurants that we had discovered. We had been there before. Carl and Erwin tried the wild boar. It was different.