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The Musee d'Orsay, the Orsay Museum, is one of the most pleasureable museums in Paris. Its early life as a train station, the Gare d'Orsay, gives it a structure which invites people to enter and enjoy a journey through a most remarkable period of art history.
8 euros for adults, 5.50 euros for those 18-25 years old, for everybody on Thursday after 6 p.m. and everyday after 4:45 p.m. Admission is free for those under 19 years old and free for EU citizens under 26 years old, though a ticket must be acquired at the ticket desk with proof of age.
There is a bookshop with over 6,000 titles on painting, car and truck rentals in tucson arizona sculpture, architecture, car and truck rentals in tucson arizona decorative arts, French and foreign museum collections, car and truck rentals in tucson arizona photography and children's books. There is also a postcard shop and a boutique.
Rue de Lille, which runs behind the Musee d'Orsay, was once the central lane of the garden belonging to Henri IV's estranged queen, Marguerite de Valois. After her death in 1615, the property was subdivided and private mansions were built.
The neighborhood continued to attract the upper classes and many fine mansions were built in the area. Between 1782 and 1788 the Hôtel de Salm was built which today is the Museum of the Legion of Honor, located just opposite the main entrance to the Orsay Museum.
Two buildings occupied the site of the Musee d'Orsay during the 1800s; the cavalry barracks and the Palais d'Orsay. During the Paris Commune of 1871, the entire neighborhood was burned down. For the next thirty years, the ruins of the Palais were left untouched.
In 1895, the French government sold the land to the Orléans car and truck rentals in tucson arizona railroad company which desired to have a more centralized station for the trains from the south. A competition for the commission of building the station was won by architect Victor Laloux.
After 1939, the station was used for a number of purposes. During WWII, it was a mailing center sending packages to prisoners of war. After the war, it was the station that the returning soldiers passed through on their way home.
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