Join us on our delightful cruise plying the River Seine from glittering Paris through the picturesque Norman countryside.  

Starting at: $4,690 * Price includes special offer Make a Reservation Ask Us A Question or Call 855-330-1542
Cityscape of Paris Entrance to the Louvre, Paris Seine River, Paris The Palace of Versailles Monet's gardens at Giverny Monet's gardens at Giverny The famous lily pads and green bridge at Giverny used as inspiration for Monet The famous Gros Horloge in Rouen The cathedral in Rouen View of Pointe du Hoc American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer The American Cemetery The charming port of Honfleur

A Seine River Cruise

9 days from $4,690

Join us on our delightful cruise plying the River Seine from glittering Paris through the picturesque Norman countryside.  

or Call 855-330-1542

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Sep 6 - 14, 2022 Departure
Madeline Díaz

Madeline Díaz

Madeline Díaz has expertise in art history and museum studies and more than 15 years of experience creating and leading programs for museums and cultural institutions. She has worked for The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Cloisters, the Frick Collection, the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and the Smithsonian Latino Center for which she currently serves as consultant. She develops and leads education programs for several French cultural institutions, including the Grand Palais, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, and the Mona Bismarck American Center. She also teaches museum education and cultural mediation at the University of Versailles. Madeline has traveled extensively through Spain, Italy, and France and has a passion for art, photography, languages and flamenco. Madeline holds a BA from Brown University and an MA from Columbia University. 

Sep 27 - Oct 5, 2022 Departure
Vivien Green Fryd

Vivien Green Fryd

Vivien Green Fryd, Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984 and Professor Emerita in the History of Art and Architecture Department at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Art and Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the U.S. Capitol, 1815-1860 (1992); Art and the Crisis of Marriage: Georgia O’Keeffe and Edward Hopper (2003); and Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970 (2019). She has taught courses on Impressionism, Nineteenth-Century European Art, Twentieth-Century European Art, and American Art. She was the Terra Visiting Professor at the John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität, Berlin, fall 2012, where she began research for another book about her uncle who left Germany because of the Holocaust and became a photojournalist: Henry Ries’ Photographs of Iconic Berlin Monuments and Sites, 1946-2004. 

May 16 - 24, 2023 Departure

Barbara Whitehead

Barbara J. Whitehead is the A. W. Crandall Professor of History at DePauw University and former Chair of the History Department. She earned her AB in History at Harvard University and her PhD in History from Bryn Mawr College. This educational background fostered a love of early modern Europe that has been the focus of her teaching and writing for over thirty years. At DePauw, Barbara has developed a broad spectrum of courses centered on European history ranging from the Viking Age and Crusades to the European witch hunts, the French Revolution, and the history of happiness. Her research in intellectual history has led to an edited volume on early modern women’s education and publications on forgotten figures of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. In addition to leading over fifteen academic tours of Europe, Barbara has served as the on-site director of the American Colleges of the Midwest Central European Studies Program in the Czech Republic, where she taught European history. She also taught in the Danish International Studies Program in Copenhagen as a visiting professor. In addition to living in the Czech Republic and Denmark, Barbara has also lived in Rome and Paris.

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