Liberty facing the setting sun

Saturday
It was a misty start to the day, but with the promise of clearing later in the day, so we decided to venture up to Paris for the day. We took the car, and whilst we drove through some thick fog on the way up, the skies had indeed cleared by the time we arrived. Our main destination for the day was the Musée Marmottan Monet in the 16th arrondissement. It's collection includes the largest collection of Monet's works in the world, as well as works by Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. There was also a special exhibition on, revolving around Monet's painting, Impression, Soleil Levant, a painting of the harbor at Le Havre which, after it's appearance in an exhibition, provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term Impressionism in a satirical review published in the Parisian newspaper Le Charivari. The name was thereafter adopted by the movement. After seeing the exhibition, we decided it was time for lunch, so we went for a pleasant stroll through the nearby park, past a lovely statue of La Fontaine and the fox and the crow from his fable, and ponies giving rides for children, and found a nice cafe with good food and very fast and cheerful service. Then we returned to the museum briefly to see the remainder of the works in the main collection, chiefly those of Berthe Morisot.
From there, we walked to Trocadero for the view over the Eiffel Tower, then walked along the river to Bir Hakeim bridge, then along the Île aux cygnes to the tip, where I took this photograph of the replica of the Statue of Liberty, facing westwards towards its bigger sister in New York. This statue was given by the American community in Paris to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.