It was starting to rain when we left the abruptly curtailed medieval bridge after visiting the Palace of the Popes. So we quickly angled down a couple of side streets and found the Angladon Museum Jacques-Doucet. Taking up a couple floors of an old chateau, the museum has a collection of art that was acquired by Jacques-Doucet, a fashion designer who specialized in lingerie and made his fortune in the 1920s. Bouncing from Miss. Tic to Jacques-Doucet it seemed I’d left the underworld of Chateau Baux and was now in the underwear world of Avignon.
The Angladon Museum had a couple Degás and a Van Gogh, but the painting that stood out and made it worth the visit was a Cézanne.
Cézanne’s studio (now a museum) in Aix-de Provence is temporarily closed or we would have arranged our drive out of Nice differently.