Carnavalet Museum is dedicated to the history of Paris, origins to the present. Created in 1868 by the prefect Haussmann, it was inaugurated in 1880. Located in the heart of the historic Marais, just steps from the Place des Vosges, the collections are housed in two mansions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the hotel and the Hotel Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau.
Hotel Carnavalet owes its name to that, deformed, a family of Britain to which he belonged in the sixteenth century, Kernevenoy. The Kernevenoy, who had the honor of perpetuating their memory, however, were not the first owners of this beautiful building. It was built around 1550 by Pierre Lescot, for Jacques de Ligneris, president of the parliament, whose son, Theodore, had transferred in 1578 to Françoise de la Baume, widow of François de Carnavalet since 1571.
From that time dating the most beautiful parts of the monument, some of which bear comparison with the finest masterpieces of the Renaissance and have been attributed to the famous sculptor Jean Goujon. In the following century, in 1660, the architect Mansart was responsible for expanding the hotel by building a new facade (except the gate dating from the origin) and raising one floor the other three sides. A few years after Madame de Sevigne coming to live as a tenant has lived there from 1677 until his death in 1696, was preserved in its entirety the show's famous marquee (now Room Prints Library). In the eighteenth century, the Hotel Carnavalet is especially for people living in finance. During the Revolution, the School of Roads and Bridges is installed and remains there until 1830. After her two boys occupy residential. Finally, in 1866, the city of Paris acquired to establish its library and museum of history.
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The library can be considered a model of special library and consists of approximately 80,000 volumes and 600 manuscripts, most of which relates to the history of Paris and its surroundings, and other general history and literary curiosity. The historical museum has, likewise, an almost exclusively Parisian. It keeps particularly large number of paintings, prints, ceramics, medals, referring to the revolutionary era.
The museum is located in the heart Marais. Composed of hundreds of rooms, we can see the archaeological remains as Neolithic pirogues, views and paintings of old Paris, models of neighborhoods, shops signs, decorative complexes from destroyed buildings (beautiful eighteenth woodwork, art nouveau shop), memories of famous men including bedroom furniture by Marcel Proust, testimonies of everyday life and a collection of objects and paintings on the Revolution not to be missed: Memories the Bastille, the royal family of objects trapped in the Temple. The museum also houses a collection of graphic arts - Collection of drawings, prints, photographs and posters - and a numismatic firm.
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Jean-Baptiste Lesueur
Carnavalet Museum preserves 73 of the 83 watercolors known Jean-Baptiste Lesueur, 40 are exposed by rotation.
The question of the function of these paintings on paper is not completely understood but it seems they have been used in a small theater, then a sort of private museum. This set of gouaches is a way of "newspaper" in images of the period 1789-1806. Because of its great accuracy of observation, this collection can easily track down the iconography of the Revolution, particularly as regards the sans-culottes, the army or the evolution of the costume. Interesting detail: small manuscripts are mostly post pictures and feelings generally reflect cons-revolutionaries, which is not the case for most images.
One of the most original aspects of this "report" is the attention paid to women. In a misogynistic happy Revolution, the look of Lesueur is usually full of sympathy. It does not limit itself to clichés (maternity), futile (elegance), or disparaging, but shows us the citizens in Revolution and gives us very rare representation of a woman soldier or women's club.
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