Musée Marmottan Monet inherited the Monet family collection of Monets. The best of them have recently travelled to Melbourne, but a large remainder stayed at home in west Paris and on Thursday we went to see them, and the temporary exhibition, "The Sisters of Napoleon".
It is a museum of modest size, but the temporary exhibition told an interesting story of how Napoleon installed his sisters and their spouses in imperial positions in Southern Europe. They rose and fell with him; one chose to be with him and set up a court in exile on Elba.
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