Two French museums worth visiting

"Deux musées qui valent la peine d'être visités"
French C1 writing exercise

Max and Ophélie discuss their respective visits to the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum in Albi and the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon.

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Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "can't believe that + [Subjonctif]", "to take [someone] so long to [do]", "how much [something] does...", "to touch [someone] (emotionally)", "much sooner", "once I was there", "to be captivated", "to convey [an impression]", "such + [noun]", "audacity", "joie de vivre", "an unconditional fan of [something]", "to remember [doing]", "to think the same", "to strike [someone] (emotionally)", "at the time", "[an artist's] works", "a painting", "to feel like [something does]...", "to be transported into [a place]", "a palette", "pastel [adj.]", "a delicate line (drawing)", "something both [adj.] and [adj.] about [someone]", "to belong to [something]", "out of reach", "the way [something does]...", "to manage to [do]", "to reveal [something]", "rather than".

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- I can't believe that it's taken me so long to visit the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum in Albi. If I'd known how much this collection of paintings would touch me, I would have organised a visit much sooner. Before going there, I read all the books I could about his life and (his) technique. Once I was there, I became completely captivated by his illustrations whose characters conveyed such audacity and (such) joie de vivre. Since my visit, I have become an unconditional fan of this incredible French painter. - I remember thinking the same when I [had] visited the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon a few years back. What [had] struck me the most at the time was Redon's works. While looking at his paintings, I [had] felt like I was being transported into a dream by the pastel palette and the delicate lines that Redon had used. There was something both fragile and haunting about his characters as if they belonged to a world out of reach. - It's fascinating the way artists manage to reveal what we can feel rather than what we can see.

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