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The Orsay was my favorite museum in Paris. I also remember admiring that wonderful clock, but the impressionists paintings within its walls were just incredible! I really never understood the impressionists until I visited the Orsay and had a chance to view hundreds of their paintings.

Seeing this picture, I somehow assumed that the Gare d'Orsay was the location of Martin Scorcese's movie 'Hugo'. But now I read that the station in the movie was actually a composite of "Gare Montparnasse, the train station where a major part of the film’s action takes place...the Gare du Nord for its façade and the Gare de Lyon for its geographic location and clock tower, an important plot element in Hugo ." Momentarily disappointed, I read on, "... the Gare d’Orsay, provides another...

And there's a chance for the puzzle-minded: Paris has six operating SNCF mainline rail stations today. Without Google, can you name them all?

I've been wracking my brain for the 6th, did not cheat, promise. Besides the ones above, Gare du Nord, Gare de Lyon & Montparnasse, there's Est & St Lazare. So if Bercy counts, then that's 6. I've left & returned from Bercy but have never been sure about it. Now tell us, please.

Bercy is the one, and the one I had the hardest time recalling. But! SMH, as they say these days, I realized that it is actually No. 7! I left out the Gare d'Austerlitz. The 6 came from a reference online, which I since realized was old enough perhaps not to include Bercy, which was a freight station until 1977, when it was reconfigured to handle overnight sleepers, especially those on which you can take your car with you. The two no-longer operating stations are Orsay (of course) and...

I've taken trains from, or returned to, all but Montparnasse and also never Austerlitz, maybe why I forgot it. Usually if I've seen it I can remember it, eventually.

 Visitors here are silhouetted against the Great Clock at the Musee d'Orsay. The museum is housed in a former rail station and hotel; the clock is visible from quite a long stretch of the opposite bank of the Seine. Visitors to the Museum's...

Jonathan L spends an afternoon delving through the art of the Musée d'Orsay

I enjoyed reading about Musée d' Orsay in #Paris. I will be in Paris in October. I hope I have the opportunity to visit this impressive museum! Excellent article and photos!

Great museum! Great post. I actually enjoyed it more than the Louvre.

Thanks!