WE HAVE COME A LONG WAY, HAVE WE NOT?
It’s rare if ever that I go to a museum on a Sunday. To make it really different, a Sunday holiday of a long weekend. These last weeks though have been rather closed in and as the day turned out to be quite beautiful. Off I went expecting to face the crowds.
The Marmottan museum (which we have visited together on several occasions) is on the other side of Paris and takes me around 45 minutes to get there by public transport. The metro was crowded and people looked hot and flustered. It was not a good sign. A very good introduction to the exhibition I was going to see. « The Invention of Privacy » the toilette. One of the things that really struck me when I arrived in Paris as a teenager, were the bodily smells. People did not shower, wash or bathe as we did in Australia. It’s difficult to believe that over the years when I was working, I needed to point out to certain members of my staff that it would be a good idea if they used a deodorant……I’m not joking as other product man