We will never forget.
Serious rain for a change, I stay put and hope for better weather tomorrow. Have booked a room for Saturday in Noyers-sur-Seine, at Hotel de la Vielle Tour, a place Lonely Planet Cycling France calls "a beauty". So the weather better improve.
On rainy days (and sunny days) Troyes is worth seeing, with the charming old town and the half timbered houses.
Also the town has a truly amazing Musée dArt Moderne; housed in the formers bishop palace. The collection includes Matisse, Degas, Modigliani, Bonnard, Cezanne and others, as well as local artists; and the building is a piece of art in itself.
This is from the regular (fixed) exhibition at the top floor:
and this is a detail from the stairs between the floors, a beautiful building.
Troyes also has several churches, I saw them all, or at least four of them.
The above picture is from the StPierreStPaul cathedral next to the arts museum.
One of the leading Jewish thinkers from the end of the 12th century, Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki (Rashi), lived in Troyes. The town had a small Jewish community at the time under the protection of the counts of Champagne. There is a research institute in one of the streets in the old city bearing the Rashi name. On the wall opposite the entrance this has been put up by La Republique francais:
Never forget.
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