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Toys in the Musee des Beaux Arts<\/p><\/div>\n
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Early life in Dijon<\/p><\/div>\n
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Apotherycary<\/p><\/div>\n
Perhaps the most significant of the museum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rooms was the Guards\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Room containing the heavily carved Tombs of the Dukes of Burgundy.\u00c2\u00a0 This room overlooks the Place des Ducs.\u00c2\u00a0 Built in t e1400\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, it was restored after a fire in the early 16th century. The tomb of Philip the Bold has a recumbent figure of the duke, watched over by two angels, resting on a black marble slab surrounded by alabaster arches forming a cloister to shelter the procession of mourners.\u00c2\u00a0 All of the figures are picked out and highlighted in gilt\/gold.<\/p>\n
The other duke is John the Fearless along with his wife Margaret of Bavaria is in a similar style.\u00c2\u00a0 Several altarpieces decorate the room, some famous, and some very intricately carved or painted.<\/p>\n
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post office\/telegraph office\/telephone office<\/p><\/div>\n
In an old gallery up a spiral staircase in the Tour de Bar is a collection of animal sculptures by Francois Pompon.\u00c2\u00a0 The steps were so narrow and twisted we decided to skip that part.<\/p>\n
In our travels through the museum, we found the original heavily carved wooden doors from the Palais du Justice.\u00c2\u00a0 The doors were carved by Hugues Sambin.\u00c2\u00a0 We also came across a beautiful salon decorated with woodwork of the Louis XVI period displaying 18th century furniture, art sculpture and a fantastic mirror and commode \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as well as an enamel and brass wall clock.\u00c2\u00a0 The entire rooms upper walls were covered in a teal silk \u00e2\u20ac\u201c my favorite color.We left the museum, wandered back to Place Francois Rude and found a table in the sun to enjoy a lunch of salad des chevres and a pitchet of cotes de rhone. It was so warm, we ended up taking off our layers and basking in the sun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rays.As we made our way back toward the hotel and the train station, we passed through Place Grangier and spotted the very grand post office\/telegraph office\/telephone office.\u00c2\u00a0 Remember in France the post office runs the landline communications system.<\/p>\n
Next to the Hotel des Postes is very unusual art nouveau building with pagoda-like roofs, looking sort of like flying saucers.\u00c2\u00a0 We learned that both buildings, drastically different, were designed by the same architect Louis Perreau.Also on the way back to the hotel, we stopped by the train station to see if we could locate a train to get us to Gray \u00e2\u20ac\u201c where we pick up our boat on Wednesday.\u00c2\u00a0 Evidently, there is no train that heads that way.\u00c2\u00a0 Fall back plan \u00e2\u20ac\u201c call the boat people and see if they can advise us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We spent most of the day in the Musee des Beaux Arts in the former duke\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s palace off the Cour de Bar.\u00c2\u00a0 Near the entrance we found an old well, currently used as a wishing well.\u00c2\u00a0 The museum was free, … Continue reading