Occasional Painting — Le Pont d’Argenteuil
Sunday, October 7, 2007
By Claude Monet
Le Pont d’Argenteuil
Oil on canvas, 1874
What makes this painting newly significant is that it now has a 10 cm hole in it.
During the early hours of Sunday morning, five drunken ‘revelers’ attending Paris’s Nuit Blanche festivities broke into the Musee d’Orsay and for some reason decided to puncture the painting. Apparently it can be restored, but if it was up to me I’d put a 10 cm puncture into each of the people responsible for this (not the mention the ‘security’ guys at the gallery).
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The Culturatti 
Ouch! I think in France, that kind of offense is punishable by death…
I agree with you in the fair punishment of these punks. Probably they were too drunk to know better, but still. A 10 cm puncture into each of their heads (since they seem to have lost it anyway) seems like just dessert…
PS Can we take their brains out and fry them? I was just teaching the conversation level 2 class yesterday and I learned a new vocabularly from the textbook, fried brains.
They probably have something like that at one of the night markets.