Finally two places with no line to get in.  We started our heavily overcast, snow spitting day walking to the Arc de Triomphe and were able to go right up.  The weather was acceptable and we could see Montmartre and the Eiffel Tower so the visibility was adequate if very drab.  After picking up our Louvre tickets for Friday at the Virgin Megastore, we headed to Musée Marmottan.  Marmottan was an art historian who donated his house and art collection for a museum.  Then Claude Monet’s son donated 65 of his father’s paintings to the museum and it became principally a Monet museum.  The collection is beautiful.

So those two sites with about five miles of walking in between consumed our day.  To the Louvre on Friday to wrap up our trip.