Right next door to Les Invalides is the Rodin Museum, so after our tour of Les Invalides we visited the museum's gardens.
Rodin, one of France's treasured artists, donated his entire collection of sculptures to the French State on the condition that they turn the Hôtel Biron, the building he used as his workshop, into a museum dedicated to his works.
The museum's beautiful gardens are a haven of peace and quiet, and there are many people just reading or relaxing. It costs only one euro to access the gardens, where there's also a cafeteria near the small pond, where we had lunch.
Many of Rodin's incredible sculptures are displayed in the museum's extensive gardens, of which, of course, The Thinker has a prominent place. Also shown below are Monument to Balzac, Burghers of Calais, The Three Shadows, and The Gates of Hell, which depicts a scene from "The Inferno," the first section of Dante Alighieri's
Divine Comedy.
