Discovering the West through an eastern eye
When I first started reading about France, it was with reference to the renaissance and French revolution. The authors who inspired me were Maupassant with his short stories and travel stories, Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables’, Alexander Dumas complete works, Voltaire and Rousseau’s philosophies and play-writes and off course Charles Dickens’s- A Tale of Two cities. Having guarded with history, I ventured to Paris, to learn good art, after I was convinced by Neil Gaiman’s commencement speech of 2012- “Make good art”. To make good art, one needs to appreciate and learn good art also and the Mecca of such treasure is in De Louvre in Paris. Taking a train from Marne-la- vallee/ Chessy, changing to Green line RER at Chatelet les Halles and then after 40 mins that is record time in Paris on a week day, I got down at Louvre. Louvre Museum is housed in the Palais du Louvre, which was a fortress built in the late 12 th century under Phillip II. During the French revolution, the Nationa