A day in Paris

CEZANNE, CROISSANTS AND A CEMETERY...

After a 3am start, 24 Sixth Form Art students huddled outside St Pancras and were soon preparing ourselves for France with croissants and hot chocolates.

Our first destination in the French capital was Père Lachaise cemetery where we took photographs. We all admired the many stained-glass windows and intricate stone designs on many of the graves as they were so relevant to the Lower Sixth architecture project. We also visited some of the most famous graves including Edith Piaf’s and Jim Morrison’s.

We moved on to the fabulous Cezanne immersive experience. We loved how the projections and lights told the story of some of Cezanne’s most famous works and how they moved around us on the floors and curved walls. Lunch at a Christmas market provided more opportunities for photographs. The Musee d’Orsay was particularly interesting as the building was a former train station, meaning the architecture was more complex than a typical museum and we all spent a lot of our time admiring the giant gold clock! A quick dinner before travelling back to the Gare du Nord rounded off a great day admiring the sights of Paris.

Conor Carnegie-Brown I Lower Sixth