Middle Ages today – A look into the newly reopened Musée de Cluny

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In Moby Dick, Herman Melville's long, dark look into the abyss of the American soul and into the intricacies of whaling way beyond average reader’s patience, the main protagonist's inner life is explained through a metaphor of a medieval building standing on top of Roman ruins. Winding far down from within the very heart of this spiked Hôtel de Cluny where we here stand—however grand and wonderful, now quit it;—and take your way, ye nobler, sadder souls, to those vast Roman halls of Thermes;...

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