Grand Seine River and Normandy Passage
Trip Information
Delight in the artistic and maritime legacy of Honfleur and the history of Rouen, and discover beautiful coastlines. Walk through bountiful gardens at Claude Monet's home, gaze at majestic Versailles and explore timeless abbeys. Visit poignant D-Day beaches, the Caen Memorial Museum and Paris' spectacular landmarks. Spend sunny days relaxing aboard your exclusively chartered first-class ship and enjoy a generous meal plan. No supplement for single travelers!
About the trip host
Hollis (Holly) Clayson is Professor Emerita of Art History and Bergen Evans Professor Emerita in the Humanities at Northwestern University, where she taught for 35 years. She has received many awards including fellowships from the ACLS, CASVA, the INHA, the Getty and the Clark. She is a Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, and she was the 2024 College Art Association Distinguished Scholar. Her scholarship centers on diverse Paris-based 19th-century art practices. Her books include Painted Love: Prostitution in the Art of the Impressionist Era (1991), Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege, 1870-1871 (2002), Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century? Essays on Art and Modernity, 1850-1900 (2016, co-edited with André Dombrowski), and Paris Illuminated: Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Époque (2019). She has also published essays on the interior and the threshold, intaglio printmaking as an integral component of modernism, and art produced within networks of transatlantic exchange. Her book in press is entitled Eiffel Tower Confidential: What it Meant and What it Stands for. She has traveled often to France, and the Grand Seine trip will mark her 6th with Northwestern Alumni Travel.