France Orsay

Talkin about Orsay, there is a little history that I heard. By 1939 the station's short platforms had become unsuitable for the longer trains that had come to be used for mainline services. After 1939 it was used for suburban services and part of it became a mailing center during World War II. It was then used as a set for several films, such as Kafka's The Trial adapted by Orson Welles, and as a haven for the Renaud-Barrault Theatre Company and for auctioneers, while the Hôtel Drouot was being rebuilt. One of the stuff that attracts my attention a lot is the clock of in there. Antique and full of art in my opinion. The Orsay museum occupies the building of a former railroad station closed in 1973. This station, as well as the adjacent hotel, constructed on the plans of the architect Victor Laloux, very modern for the time, had been inaugurated on the occasion of the world fair of 1900.