Got out the door early and using my Carte Blanche membership was able to walk into the Orangerie right at 9:00am. Visiting Modigliani exhibit to terribly interesting as it was focused on his patron. Water Lillys always nice. Walked around the Madeline etc. and ended up at Le Grand Colbert for lunch. Hadn’t been there before but it was in a Jack Nicholson movie. Excellent lunch of Skate wing. Then off to try to go to the top of Arc de Triomphe. Had bought online ticket around 10:30am and when I got there after lunch they were closed because they were on strike. Email did produce a response that suggested if I couldn’t go at a later date I could file all kinds of paperwork for a refund. Then, they said that the ticket was only good for the date issued and could not be changed…. We will see. Wonderful dinner with friends CC and his friend R. I stopped and got some interesting cheeses from my neighborhood Frommager and then we went to an Italian place in the 6th and just had a lovely octopus salad.