September 15, 2019. Our LLM program director arranged for us a whole day trip to Chantilly, north of Paris, last Sunday. We had aperitif at one of our professor’s countryside home, then we had lunch at a French restaurant with a brief lesson on French table manners.
The rest of the afternoon was spent with my classmates at the vast Château de Chantilly and its exhibits–one of the main artworks of which is a panel painting of Europa and the Bull (depicting the abduction of the Phoenician princess Europa by Zeus, metamorphosed into a bull, which through the centuries have become one of the symbols of Europe and the European Union).
