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Camille Pissarro (Charlotte-Amélie, 1830-Paris, 1903) L’Avenue de l’Opéra, 1898, huile sur toile Reims, musée des Beaux-Arts
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Marcel Proust, a parisian novel

The museum is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Marcel Proust (1871-1922).
Based on Marcel Proust’s relationship with Paris, where he spent most of his life the “March Proust, a Parisian Novel” exhibition looks at the city’s place in Proust’s novels for the first time.
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The permanent collections are free of charge and can be accessed without booking.
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STAINED-GLASS WINDOWS FROM THE CHAPEL OF THE COLLÈGE DE DORMANS-BEAUVAIS: SAINT JAMES THE MINOR

During the 19th century, the Carnavalet Museum’s collection of stained glass was built from stained glass windows that came from churches and restorations in Paris. These six panels featuring five apostles and a bishop had been subjected to a series of installations and re-installations. Originally from the chapel of the College of Dormans-Beauvais, which was built in 1375 by architect Raymond du Temple, they are attributed to Baudoin de Soissons and the painter Jean de Bruges, who created the famous Apocalypse tapestry at Angers. Moved from the chapel under the Restoration and reinstalled in the Saint-Germain-des-Près church, they were later restored and adapted to the high windows of Saint-Séverin as part of the work carried out in Paris by Victor Baltard. Only the head of St. Philip is original and is probably part of a set of fragments given by the restorer Prosper Lafaye to the Carnavalet Museum in the late 19th century. __PRESENT __PRESENT __PRESENT __PRESENT __PRESENT

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Wood panelling from the Café militaire (rue Saint-Honoré)

Coffee became increasingly fashionable in the late 17th century, and starting in the 18th century the famous “coffee houses” began to develop in Paris. It was the place to enjoy a new kind of freedom outside a well-defined social or family circle—for men at least. Installed in 1762 on the ground floor of a building on Rue Saint-Honoré, the military café was for officers only. Its interior decoration was one of the first Paris commissions for the young architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. He designed a war-themed setting inspired by Antiquity, featuring trophies of arms, banners, shields with grimacing Medusa heads and laurel wreaths. On the ceiling we see the motto, Hic virtus bellica gaudet (“Here, warlike virtue takes delight”). From the moment the café opened, Ledoux’s decoration was greatly admired and the place was highly successful. A century later, the café and the home that housed it were destroyed when work was carried out to create Rue de Rivoli. __PRESENT