An ex-pat was once asked what he missed most about England. “Paris” was his reply.

Paris is indeed only a quick train journey away as several of the Upper VI realised last weekend on a packed History of Art trip to the city.

As well as seeing the outstanding collections in the Musée d’Orsay and the Louvre, tapestries in the Cluny Museum, a sparkling Notre Dame and sculptures in the Musée Rodin, we had crêpes in Montmartre and ate as Toulouse-Lautrec might have done.