The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Peter is full on conferencing today. He left at 7 a.m. and won’t return until 9 p.m. I have been exploring Montreal alone. First a little shopping on Rue St. Catherine’s. My sunglasses smashed yesterday so I purchased a new pair as it is very hot and sunny here in Montreal. Then a stop at Sephora for eyebrow stencils (blame yesterday’s Globe & Mail–How to Have the Perfect Eyebrows). *Note the before eyebrows look very similar to the after ones I have discovered! Not perfect at all 😛 I walked to the Fine Arts Museum. I especially enjoyed the Napoleon exhibit: busts, paintings, furniture and house ware of (and from the house hold of ) The Emperor Napoleon and Empress Josephine. It also included personal items belonging to Napoleon: clothing, hat, boots, writing scroll etc. The personal tidbits are the best: Napoleon was a messy writer. His clothes and writing scroll were always smudged with ink. I did not know that Josephine had been married before and had 2 children–her 1st husband was guillotined during the French Revolution. She and Napoleon married and then divorced later as they had no heir. Napoleon remarried and had one son who died childless at age 22. |
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