Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques [SEP] date of official opening
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Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques


The Musée de l'Arles antique or Musée départemental Arles antique or Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques is an archeological museum housed in a modern building designed and built in 1995 by the architect Henri Ciriani, at Arles in the Bouches-du-Rhône "département" of France. The museum houses a large collection of antiquities, including monumental Roman sculptures from the local region. Among the exhibits is a model of the multiple overshot water mills which existed at Barbegal, and have been referred to as "the greatest known concentration
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Claude Sintes


Claude Sintes (born 10 June 1953) is a French archaeologist and curator. Born in Bordj El Kiffan in Algeria, after studying medieval archaeology at the université d'Aix en Provence, Sintes was appointed assistant curator at the Musée d'Arles in 1984. Since 1995, he has been the director of the Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques which set up the exhibitions "Algérie antique", "Arménie antique", "Ingres et l’antique", "Chefs d’œuvres romains du Louvre", "César : le Rhône pour mémoire
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Jean-Maurice Rouquette


Jean-Maurice Rouquette (1930 – 22 January 2019) was a French historian, specializing in ancient and Romanesque Provence, and curator at the Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques. Rouquette studied at Aix-Marseille University, where he was a student under Georges Duby and Jean-Rémy Palanque. He was particularly interested in paleochristian and Romanesque Provence studies. He was the curator of Musées et Monuments d’Arles from 1956 to 1996. Rouquette served as president of the Museon Arlaten Autonomous Committee, president of the Académie d'Arles,
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Arles


of St. Trophime (Saint Trophimus), formerly a cathedral, is a major work of Romanesque architecture, and the representation of the Last Judgment on its portal is considered one of the finest examples of Romanesque sculpture, as are the columns in the adjacent cloister. The town also has a museum of ancient history, the Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques, with one of the best collections of Roman sarcophagi to be found anywhere outside Rome itself. Other museums include the Musée Réattu and the Museon Arlaten. The courtyard
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Head of Arles


type called "Aspremont-Lynden/Arles". It is now part of the permanent exhibition of the Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques with the inventory number FAN.92.00.405. The sculpture was originally two separate pieces, joined at an angle across the chest in a manner which is also seen elsewhere. The bust which is preserved today, with a height of 57 cm was probably inserted into an entirely clothed body, with her posture causing the chiton to slip off the left shoulder. As was usual, the statue was
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Cannes


d'Art et d'Histoire de Provence houses artifacts from prehistoric to present, in an 18th-century mansion. The Musée de la Castre has objects from the Pacific Atolls, Peruvian relics and Mayan pottery. Other venues include the Musée de la Marine, Musée de la Mer, Musée de la Photographie and Musée International de la Parfumerie. Cannes of the 19th century can still be seen in its grand villas, built to reflect the wealth and standing of their owners and inspired by anything from medieval castles to Roman villas. They are not
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Michel Serre


de Saint Pierre Vérone", "Le miracle de Saint Hyacinthe", "La vierge à l'enfant", "Saint-François de Sales", and "Sainte Jeanne de Chantal". In Aix-en-Provence, the Musée Granet displays one of his paintings: "La vierge à l’enfant, moine bénédictin, Sainte félicité et Perpétue". Louis XIV of France (1638–1715) appointed him as official painter of French galleys. On May 1, 1685, he married Florie Régimonde, daughter of Jean Régimonde et
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Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur


Musée de la Faïence de Marseille and the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Marseille are some of the tourist spots of the city. However, other museums are internationally recognised, like the Musée Matisse, the Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, the Musée Marc Chagall, the Musée international d'Art naïf Anatole Jakovsky, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice, the Musée National du Sport and the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nice. PACA has two of the busiest airports in France: Nice Côte d'Azur Airport (ranking 3rd after Charles de Gaulle
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Musée du Général Leclerc de Hauteclocque et de la Libération de Paris – Musée Jean Moulin


The Musée du Général Leclerc de Hauteclocque et de la Libération de Paris – Musée Jean Moulin is a museum located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris at 23, Allée de la 2e DB, Jardin Atlantique, Paris, France. It is open daily except Mondays; admission was free of charge. The museum opened in 1994 as "Musée Jean Moulin" to commemorate Jean Moulin, a major figure of the French Resistance, and the occupation of Paris during World War II. A prominent member of the French Resistance, Antoinette Sasse
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Musée de la mode et du textile


The Musée de la mode et du textile (Museum of Fashion and Textiles) was a museum located in the Louvre at, 107, rue de Rivoli, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. It is now a department of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. Works from the former museum are regularly displayed in temporary exhibitions. The museum dates to 1905 when the Musée des Arts Décoratifs started collecting outstanding examples of silks, embroidery, printed cotton, costumes, lace, and tapestry. In 1948, another collection
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Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation à Grenoble


The Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère is a museum located in Grenoble, France. The original museum, which opened in 1966 in the rue Jean Jacques Rousseau, was dedicated to local resistance networks and named the Musée de la Résistance Dauphinoise. The museum underwent significant renovations in the late 1980s and early 1990s and has been in its current premises in the rue Hébert since its reopening in 1994. The building originally housed the architectural sculpture school of Grenoble and the apartments of its director, the sculptor Aimé Charles
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Musée de la Faïence de Marseille


Decorative themes of this factory consist primarily of marine animals and landscapes painted in "petit feu" polychrome. He also developed production of statuettes. The museum also features faïence from Moustiers-Sainte-Marie (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) which also manufactured a prestigious production that appeared slightly later around 1680 but which continued until 1982. A revival of this production was made in 1927 by Marcel Provence, who opened on that date a manufacturing canter and created the Academy of Moustiers. This activity is ongoing. The main
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Landmarks in Paris


Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Musée Cognacq-Jay, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, Musée de la Poupée, Musée des Arts et Métiers and the Carnavalet Museum, and theatres such as Théâtre Déjazet, Théâtre de la Gaîté, and Théâtre du Marais. Several hotels are located in this district including Hôtel de Guénégaud and Hôtel de Soubise. The 4th arrondissement is located to the east of the 1st. Place de la Bastille (4th, 11th and 12th arrondissements, right bank) is a district of
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Musée de la Légion d'honneur


The Musée national de la Légion d'honneur et des ordres de chevalerie (French for "National museum of the Legion of Honour and of orders of chivalry") is a French national museum of orders of merit and orders of chivalry. It is located in the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur beside the Musée d'Orsay at 2, rue de la Légion-d'Honneur, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is open daily except Monday and Tuesday; admission is free. The nearest métro and RER stations are Musée d'Orsay,
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Toulon


collection of photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dieuzaide, Edouard Boubat, Willy Ronis and André Kertész). The Memorial Museum to the Landings in Provence (Mémorial du débarquement de Provence) is located on the summit of Mount Faron, this small museum, opened in 1964 by President Charles De Gaulle, commemorates the Allied landing in Provence in August 1944 with photos, weapons and models. The Museum of Natural History of Toulon and the Var (Musée d'histoire naturelle de Toulon et du Var) was founded in 1888, has
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Michel Vovelle


1680 to 1790. He wrote a volume for the "Nouvelle histoire de la France contemporaine" series titled "La Chute de la monarchie, 1787–1792" (1972) and in 1976 produced "Religion et Révolution: La Déchristianisation de l'an II". He spent a large part of his academic career at the University of Provence before being appointed in 1983 to the Chair of the History of the French Revolution at the University of Paris. In 1983, Michel Vovelle became president of the scientific and technical council of the Musée de
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Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne


The Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life) was held from 25 May to 25 November 1937 in Paris, France. Both the Palais de Chaillot, housing the Musée de l'Homme, and the Palais de Tokyo, which houses the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, were created for this exhibition that was officially sanctioned by the Bureau International des Expositions. At first the centerpiece of the exposition was to be a tower ("Phare du Monde"
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Musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie


The Musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie (National Museum of Arts of Africa and Oceania) was a museum formerly located in the Palais de la Porte Dorée on the edge of the Bois de Vincennes at 293, avenue Daumesnil in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The museum began as the colonial exhibition of 1931, was renamed in 1935 the Musée de la France d’Outre-mer, then in 1960 the Musée des Arts africains et océaniens, and finally in 1990 the Musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie. In
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Édouard Gruner


Houillères de la Haute-Loire, the Aciéries de Paris et d'Outreau, the Société de l'industrie minérale and the Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale, and was an advocate at the Musée social for these employer interests groups. When the Musée officially opened in March 1895 Gruner was secretary-treasurer. Gruner was active in the social Protestant movement, as were other Musée members such as Jules Siegfried (1837–1922), Charles Gide (1847–1932), Henri Monod (1843–1911) and Pierre-Paul Guieysse (1841–1914). As a leader
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Jules Bourgeois


"Bulletin de la Société d’histoire naturelle de Colmar". This included information on 3000 species from numerous localities. The author thus showed the great richness of the entomological fauna of the Alsace, the richest of France, after the Provence and Côte d'Azur. With the death of Jules, the work, of 800 pages, was completed by Paul Scherdlin, conservator of the Musée zoologique de l'ULP et de la ville de Strasbourg, Strasbourg. In 1885, Jules Bourgeois had a rich collection of more than 15,000 species of Palearctic Coleoptera
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Musée de la Magie


The Musée de la Magie, also known as the Musée de la Curiosité et de la Magie and the Académie de la Magie, is a private museum located in the 4th arrondissement at 11, rue saint Paul, Paris, France. It is open several afternoons per week; an admission fee is charged. The museum occupies 16th-century cellars beneath the Marquis de Sade's house, and includes items relating to magic shows, including optical illusions, secret boxes, wind-up toys, magic mirrors, see-through
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La Chaux-de-Fonds


La Chaux-de-Fonds is home to 23 Swiss heritage sites of national significance along with the UNESCO World Heritage Site of La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle. Library/museum/theater: Bibliothèque de la Ville de la Chaux-de-Fonds et Département audiovisuel (DAV), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Musée d‘histoire naturelle, the Musée international d’horlogerie «l’homme et le temps» and the Théâtre et Salle de musique on Avenue Léopold-Robert 27–29 Religious: Synagogue on Rue du Parc 63 Farms
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Jeanne de Flandreysy


la-Mer composed by Baroncelli-Javon and Mistral into French. De Flandreysy was a significant collector of books and manuscripts about Provence and Italy. She was a member of the Comité France-Italie. With Jules Charles-Roux, she helped Frédéric Mistral establish a gallery with statues from the Antiquity found on the grounds of the Museon Arlaten. She was also the co-founder of the Musée-bibliothèque François Pétrarque in Fontaine-de-Vaucluse in 1927. De Flandreysy became a Knight of the Legion of Honour in
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Provence Donkey


of Uzès, in Languedoc-Roussillon, to achieve recognition of the breed. A stud-book was opened in December 1995, and in November 2002 the Provence donkey received the official recognition of the Ministère de l'agriculture, de l'alimentation, de la pêche et des affaires rurales, the French ministry of agriculture. The current population is estimated at 1500. At three years old, Provençal jacks stand at the withers, and jennies . The coat is dove grey, varying from pale to dark, with pinkish lights. The muzzle
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Head of Arles


, which was found near this location some two centuries earlier and together framing the monumental statue of Augustus in the guise of Apollo, to whom the theatre was dedicated. Like the Venus of Arles, the Head of Arles has a hole at the front of head which probably allowed the attachment of a metal star or diadem, a fact which suggests that the two statues were originally designed as a pair. The two statues, with that of Augustus, have formed part of the permanent collection of the Musée de l'Arles antique since
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Jardin botanique de la Ville de Nice


The Jardin botanique de la Ville de Nice (3.5 hectares), also known as the Jardin botanique de Nice, is a municipal botanical garden located at 78 avenue de la Corniche Fleurie, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. It is open daily without charge. The garden was begun in 1983 with an initial planting of 100 species from the city's Musée d'Histoire Naturelle (Museum of Natural History). It opened to the public in 1991. Today the garden contains more than 3500
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Culture of Paris


Catacombs of Paris, the Musée national de la Marine (National Navy Museum), and the former royal palace at Versailles, near the city. The city is also the home of dozens of smaller museums. Some unusual and notable museums include the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Museum of Nature and Hunting), the Musée de la Contrefaçon (Museum of Counterfeiting), the Musée de la Magie (Museum of Magic) and the Musée de la Vie Romantique (Museum of Romanticism), which has exhibitions
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Palais de la Porte Dorée


portray ships, oceans, and wildlife including antelopes, elephants, zebras, and snakes. The Palais de la Porte Dorée has housed a succession of ethnological museums, starting with the colonial exhibition of 1931, which was renamed in 1935 the Musée de la France d’Outre-mer, then in 1960 the Musée des Arts africains et océaniens, and finally in 1990 the Musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie. In 2003 these collections were merged into the Musée du quai Branly, and in its place the building now houses the Cité
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Anne-Catherine Robert-Hauglustaine


Curator of Transport Collections at the Musée des arts et métiers in Paris, France, where the Museum Director, Dr. Dominique Ferriot, entrusted her with the presentation of the collections of the . When the museum opened in November 2000, Anne-Catherine Robert became Director of Exhibitions and Publications. She has curated many exhibitions, including "Parcours de Centraliens, inventeurs et entrepreneurs" (Paris, Musée des arts et métiers, 3 November 2004 – 6 March 2005), "La Lumière, au siècle des Lumières et aujourd’hui"
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Anders Osterlind


by the State and Paris Collections at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Carnavalet Museum, the "Musée d'Île-de-France", the "Musée des Années Trente" in Boulogne-Billancourt, as well as by the Aix-en-Provence, Belfort, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Collioure, Colombes, Guéret, Honfleur, La Châtre, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Le Havre, Libourne, Limoges, Marseille, Montpellier, Roubaix, Saint-Amand-Montrond, Saint-Quentin
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Jean-Pierre Néraudau


he was treasurer of the "Société des Études Latines". He was a professor at Aix-en-Provence from 1979 to 1988 and then at the University of Reims, where he founded the association "Auspex" and the "Centre de Recherche sur les classicismes antiques et modernes" (with professor ), which became the "Centre de Recherche sur la Transmission des Modèles Littéraires et Esthétiques" after his departure. He was, among many others, Xavier Darcos's thesis director. He was then a professor at the
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Fernand Sabatté


provides this connection. """Il convient surtout de nommer le lieutenant du génie Sabatté, chef du service des monuments et objets d'art de la zone des armées. Pendant la guerre, ce brave officier fit preuve d'un zèle et d'un courage au-dessus de tout éloge. Admirablement secondé par une équipe de soldats, spécialisés dans ce service, il procéda au sauvetage de nos oeuvres d'art jusque sous le feu de l'ennemi, au milieu des obus et des incendies. Et le Musée vraiment remarquable, installé par lui à Arras
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Musée de la Publicité


The Musée de la Publicité was a museum of advertising history located in the Louvre's Rohan and Marsan wings, 1st arrondissement of Paris, at 107, rue de Rivoli, Paris, France. The museum first opened in 1978 as the Musée de l’Affiche, and is now a department of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. Works from the former museum are regularly displayed in temporary exhibitions. The museum focused on advertisements. It contained about 50,000 posters dating between the 18th century and World War II, with a further 50,000
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Rudy Ricciotti


Rudy Ricciotti (born 1952) is a French architect and publisher. He was born in Kouba, Algeria of Italian origin on 22 August 1952 and moved to France at the age of three. He studied engineering in Switzerland and he graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Marseille in 1980. He has designed the Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée (MUCEM) in Marseilles, Pavillon Noir in Aix-en-Provence, Villa Navarra in Le Muy, the Jean Cocteau Museum in Menton, Les Arts Gstaad
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Musée national des Arts et Traditions Populaires (France)


The Musée national des Arts et Traditions Populaires was a museum of the popular arts and traditions of France. It was located at 6, avenue du Mahatma Gandhi, Paris, France, but was permanently closed to the public in 2005. Its collections were transferred to the Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée in Marseilles. The museum was created in 1937 as the French section of the Trocadéro's Musée de l'Homme. In 1969 it moved to its own building, designed by architect Jean Dubuisson and set beside the Jardin
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Eugène Lepoittevin


the Ministry of Defence) in Paris, the Palace of Versailles and the Musée Lambinet in Versailles, the Château de Dieppe, the Musée de la Faïence et des Beaux-Arts in Nevers, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, the Musée Magnin in Dijon, the Musée des beaux-arts in Troyes, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen, the Musée des beaux-arts in Marseille, the Musée des beaux-arts in Chambéry, the Musée Sarret de Grozon in Arbois, the Musée maritime de
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Markus Lüpertz


Museum, in Munich, the Nationalgalerie, in Berlin, the Overbeckgesellschaft, in Lübeck, the Kunsthalle, in Baden-Baden, the Kunsthalle, in Düsseldorf, the Kunsthalle, in Bern, the Moderna Museet, in Stockholm, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, in Paris, the Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, in Saint-Etienne, the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, in Geneva, the Palais des Beaux-Arts, in Brussels, the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum
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Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations


The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (Mucem; French: "Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée") is a national museum located in Marseille, France. It was inaugurated on 7 June 2013 as part of Marseille-Provence 2013, a year when Marseille was designated as the European Capital of Culture. The museum is devoted to European and Mediterranean civilisations. With a permanent collection charting historical and cultural cross-fertilisation in the Mediterranean basin, it takes an interdisciplinary approach to society through the ages up to
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Jean Proal


with Louis Aragon and painters such as Hans Hartung and Mario Prassinos. He abandoned his post as official (receiver at registration) and opened a store of electrical appliances in 1951. He received the Grand prix du roman de la société des gens de lettres for "De sel et de cendre" in 1953 and was the first Prix de Provence for the whole of his work in 1961. At his last moments in 1969, he wrote these words: "It is light that makes me breathe." He dies of a
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Hervé Fischer


de Bellas Artes, Neuquen, Argentine (2009?), Centro Wifredo Lam in La Havanne, X Biennale de La Havane (2009), Musée d'Art Moderne de Céret (2010–11), Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (1976 and 2012). The Centre Pompidou-Musée national d'art moderne presents a retrospective of his work: "Hervé Fischer et l'art sociologique," June to September 2017. Hervé Fischer is co-founder of La Cité des arts et des nouvelles technologies de Montréal, the Quebec International Science
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Philippe Dodard


", Ultimo Arte, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic "Caribbean Visions", Hartford Athenaeum, Connecticut 1996 Galerie Lakaye, Los Angeles, California (solo) "IIIe Biennale de Peinture de la Caraïbe et de l’Amérique Latine", Musée d’Art Moderne, Santo Domingo 1995 Centre Wifredo Lam, La Havane Cuba "Caribbean Visions", Peinture et Sculpture, Center of Fine Art, Miami Florida Biennale du Dessin de la Caraïbe, Musée d’Art Moderne Santo Domingo "De Sève et d’Ecorce", chez Gerard with Galerie Marassa (solo
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Musée-Galerie de la Seita


The Musée-Galerie de la Seita was a museum of tobacco-related objects located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris at 12, rue Surcouf, Paris, France. It opened in 1979 and closed in June 2000. The museum opened in 1979 on the site where Gros Caillou tobaccos were once manufactured. It displays collections acquired from 1937 onwards by the Societe Nationale d'Exploitation Industrielle des Tabacs et Allumettes (SEITA), the former state-owned manufacturer of French tobacco products including Gitanes and Gauloises. The museum displays about 400 tobacco
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Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (Geneva)


Agasse, Töpffer, Liotard, Calame, Diday, Menn, Petitot, Arlaud and Pradier. The museum as an institution dates back to 1826 and the "Musée des Beaux-Arts", which opened in what is now the "Musée Rath". The "Musée Académique", whose exhibits covered natural history and archaeology, had also been recently founded (in 1818). The "Musée des Beaux-Arts" was acquired by the city of Geneva in 1851, which also received the State of Geneva's weapons
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Agustín Cárdenas


1995 he received "Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas" by the Cuban Ministry of Culture. His works can be found in many permanent collections around the world, including the Centre National des Arts du Cirque, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain and Musée de la Sculpture en Plein Air in Paris; the Musée d’Art et d’Industrie at Saint-Étienne, France; the Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Japan; the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Argel, Algeria; Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas, Venezuela, and in the Museo Nacional
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Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature


The Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Museum of Hunting and Nature) is a private museum of hunting and nature located in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, France. The museum is served by the Rambuteau Paris Métro station. Exhibits focus on the relationships between humans and the natural environment through the traditions and practices of hunting. The museum has been characterized by the "Smithsonian" magazine as “one of the most rewarding and inventive in Paris", and is described in tourist guidebooks and other media as "quirky
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Georges Dufrénoy


"Nature morte aux fleurs" 1935 - Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh: "La nature morte au violon" 1929 - Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: "La Place des Vosges" 1928 - Chrysler Foundation - Detroit (Michigan): "La place de la Bastille" - Musée National des Beaux-Arts d'Alger: "Place des Vosges" - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand: "Vue de Sienne" - Musée royal d'art moderne à Bruxelles: "Nature morte au piano-forte et au violon" Gabriel Mourey
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Jean-Marc Bustamante


Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France FRAC - Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France FRAC - Languedoc-Roussilon, Montpellier, France Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France Colección D.O.P., Paris, France FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris? France Centre Pompidou - Musée d´Art Contemporain, Paris, France Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France FRAC - Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS
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Army Museum (Paris)


The Musée de l'Armée (Army Museum) is a national military museum of France located at Les Invalides in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. It is served by Paris Métro stations Invalides, Varenne, and La Tour-Maubourg. The Musée de l'Armée was created in 1905 with the merger of the Musée d'Artillerie and the Musée Historique de l'Armée. The museum's seven main spaces and departments contain collections that span the period from antiquity through the 20th century. The Musée de l'Armée was created in 1905 with the merger of the Musée
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Pierre-Marie Poisson


this 1938 composition held by various parties and the plaster model lodged with the Musée d'art moderne in Paris. Poitiers' Musée Sainte-Croix hold the plaster version. This plaster bust of the French president's grandson is held by Poitiers' Musées de la ville et de la société des antiquaires de l'Ouest. This plaster bas-relief can be seen in Bourg-en-Bresse's Musée de Brou. In 1933 Poisson a bust of "Marianne", the symbol of the French Republic and this was made available for sale
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La Maison de la Magie Robert-Houdin


La Maison de la Magie Robert-Houdin (French for "The Robert-Houdin House of Magic") is a museum which faces the Royal Château de Blois. It is located in the Loir-et-Cher "département" in the Loire Valley, in France, in the center of the city of Blois. As a museum of France and bearing the official label of "Musée de France", it is the only public museum in Europe which incorporates in one place collections of magic and a site for permanent
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Archaeological site of the Trinquetaille glassware


The archaeological site of the Verrerie in Trinquetaille, has been acquired by the town council of Arles in 1978. It has been subject to archaeological excavations in the 1980s, and later since 2013, led by the Archaeology services of the Musée Départemental Arles Antique and the Inrap (National Preventive Archaeological Researches Institute), along with the contribution of the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, the CNRS (National Centre of Scientific Researches), the university and independent researchers. Head manager : Marie-Pierre Rothé (archaeologist –
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Marseille-Provence 2013


. The J1 hangar was opened to the public exclusively for the year of the European Capital of Culture. Another prime exhibition was the Grand Atelier du Midi that was organised at the Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille and the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence and featured iconic paintings of Provence by Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, and many others. It generated 460,000 visits. The city of Aubagne also hosted two major exhibitions, one featuring the ceramic work of Picasso, the other a mobile exhibition
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The 7 Fingers


Shana Carroll and Sébastien Soldevila, "Cuisine & Confessions" brought live cooking directly on stage. The show opened the 2014 CINARS Biennale in Montreal and went on to be performed 381 times. The show was coproduced by the Centre national de création et de diffusion culturelles de Châteauvallon (Ollioules, France), l'Espace Jean Legendre (Compiègne, France), le Grand Théâtre de Provence (Aix-en-Provence, France), the Tohu, la Cité des arts du cirque (Montreal), and Thomas Lightburn (Vancouver
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Palais de Tokyo


building was "Palais des Musées d'art moderne" ("Palace of the Museums of modern art"). The building has since then hosted a number of establishments, projects, and creative spaces. Among them; le musée d'art et d'essai (1977–1986), the FEMIS, the Centre national de la photographie, and in 1986 the Palais du cinéma. The current contemporary art center opened to the public in March 2002 under the new name "Site de création contemporaine (Site for contemporary creation]", specializing in the
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Musée de l'Homme


The Musée de l'Homme (French, "Museum of Man" [refers to humankind as a whole, not just men]) is an anthropology museum in Paris, France. It was established in 1937 by Paul Rivet for the 1937 "Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne". It is the descendant of the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro, founded in 1878. The Musée de l'Homme is a research center under the authority of various ministries, and it groups several entities from the CNRS. The Musée de
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Musée québécois de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation


The Musée québécois de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation, formerly known as Musée François-Pilote, is a museum of Québécois ethnology located La Pocatière, Quebec, Canada. The museum features a wide variety of collections and displays, and specializes in the history of agricultural education in the region. The museum's namesake, l'Abbé François Pilote, founded the first permanent school of agriculture in Canada (and the second in North America, after Michigan Agricultural College), and the museum showcases equipment used throughout the history of the school. The
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Karima Dirèche


Provence; - 2008, « Convoquer le passé et réécrire l’histoire. Berbérité ou amazighité dans l’histoire de l’Algérie », in Chantiers et défis de la recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain, Editions Karthala- IRMC ; - 2008, « Les écoles catholiques dans la Kabylie du XIXème siècle : entre évangélisation et assimilation», Les Cahiers de la Méditerranée, Centre de la Méditerranée moderne et contemporaine (CMMC), Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis; - « Quand les missionnaires rencontrent l’islam berbère : cécité coloniale et malentendus dans l’Algérie coloniale de la fin
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Gui Rochat


Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France", December 1999, p. 77, number 12 "La Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France", December 2000, p. 82, numbers 18 and 19. "La Tribune de l’Art", internet publication, France, several times, 2004–present Alberto Cottino, "Michele Desubleo, a catalogue raisonné", Turin 2001, color illus. XXXI, p. 123, number 57 and p. 85, color illus. XXXIV, p. 128, number 64 Beverley Schreiber Jacoby,
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Musée national des Monuments Français


The Musée national des Monuments Français is today a museum of plaster casts of French monuments located in the Palais de Chaillot, 1, place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre, Paris, France. It now forms part of the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, and is open daily except Tuesday. An admission fee is charged. The collection was a re-founding in plaster of a collection opened in 1795 by Alexandre Lenoir as the Musée des monuments français of actual monuments of French Medieval and Renaissance art, removed from churches
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The 7 Fingers


Moroccan artists and three Guinean artists. Directed by Shana Carroll and Sébastien Soldevila, "Cuisine & Confessions" brought live cooking directly on stage. The show opened the 2014 CINARS Biennale in Montreal and went on to be performed 381 times. The show was coproduced by the Centre national de création et de diffusion culturelles de Châteauvallon (Ollioules, France), l'Espace Jean Legendre (Compiègne, France), le Grand Théâtre de Provence (Aix-en-Provence, France), the Tohu, la Cité des arts du cirque
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Musée des Lunettes et Lorgnettes Pierre Marly


The Musée des Lunettes et Lorgnettes Pierre Marly is a museum of eyeglasses located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France, at 380 rue Saint-Honoré. It is open Tuesday through Saturday; an admission fee is charged. The museum was created by Pierre Marly, optician to crowned heads, public figures and celebrities. It contains almost 3,000 objects, ranging from spectacles dating from the 13th century to wooden Inuit snow goggles, with a permanent exhibition of lorgnettes, glasses, telescopes, and binoculars of all shapes and sizes.
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List of works by Alexandre Falguière


Louvre, Paris. In 1986 it was taken into the Musée d'Orsay. A marble version was shown at the Salon in 1896 and at the 1902 Falguière retrospective Thought to date to around 1895, this bronze bust of Léon Gambetta was cast by Thiébaut. The Musée d'Orsay also hold the version in terracotta dating to 1882. Other terracotta versions are to be found in the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence and the Musée Carnavalet in Paris and another Thiébaut bronze is to be seen in the Musée de Picardie in Amiens.
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Musée Ariana


and Neo-Baroque elements and is situated on Avenue de la Paix, near the Palace of Nations. It was built to house the private collection of the Swiss art collector and patron , who named it after his mother, Ariane de la Rive, and later bequeathed it to the city of Geneva. Since 1934 the museum has been a member of Geneva's association of art and history museums, "Les Musées d'art et d'histoire Geneve", led by the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire. Subsequently, parts of the collection have
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Nicolas Dautricourt


Museum, Teatro Nacional de Belém, Copenhagen Concert Hall, Ongakudo Hall Kanazawa, Nagoya Shirakawa Hall, Sendai city Hall... ), in France (Salle Pleyel, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Cité de la Musique, Metz Arsenal, Musée d’Orsay, Opéra du Rhin, Grand Théâtre de Provence, etc.), and he is invited to many artistic events, including the Festival de musique de La Chaise-Dieu, the Festival de La Roque-d'Anthéron, Printemps des Arts (Monaco), Festival de l’Orangerie (
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Château de la Mignarde


1858, it was purchased by Émile Rigaud (1824-1890), who served as the Mayor of Aix-en-Provence from 1849 to 1863. It still belongs to one of Émile Rigaud's descendants, Sabine Sechiari, who founded the non-profit organization "Association des bastides et des jardins de Provence et du Sud-Est" (English: "Association of bastides and gardens of Provence"). It has received funding for its restoration from Vieilles Maisons Françaises, a non-profit organization for the restoration
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La Piscine Museum


La Piscine (French for "the swimming pool") is a museum of art and industry, located in the city of Roubaix in northern France. It is more formally known as La Piscine-Musée d'Art et d'Industrie André Diligent or Le musée d'Art et d'Industrie de la ville de Roubaix, but its common name derives from the fact that it is housed in a former indoor swimming pool, with a notable art deco interior. The swimming pool was constructed between 1927 and 1932, by the Lille architect Albert Baert. It
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Geneva


and Museum international de la Réforme, Musée Ariana, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Museum d'art moderne et contemporain, Museum d'ethnographie, Museum of the International Red Cross, Musée Rath, Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Salle communale de Plainpalais et théâtre Pitoëff, Villa Bartholoni et Museum d'Histoire et Sciences. International organizations: International Labour Organization (BIT), International Committee of the Red Cross, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), World Meteorological Organization, World Trade Organization, International Telecommunication Union, World Alliance of Young Men's Christian
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Françoise Pommaret


Nécessaire de chiqueur", Cent ans d'ethnographie sur la colline de Saint Nicolas (1904–2004), ( M.O. Gonseth, J. Hainard et R. Kaehr, Musée d'Ethnographie de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, 2005, 278-281. - "Danses pour un temps futur" Cité Musiques La revue de la Cité de la Musique, n°49 septembre-decembre 2005, 17. - Himalaya, Notes de programme dans le cadre du cycle la vie et la mort, Cité de la Musique Paris, Octobre 2005. "Bhoutan: danses
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Nathalie Bondil


free and open to all. Nathalie Bondil is Vice-Chair of the Canada Council for the Arts; and a member of the boards of the Chambre de commerce du Montréal Métropolitain and the Council for Canadian American Relations, of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), of the French & American Museum Exchange (FRAME), the Canadian Art Museum Directors Organization (CAMDO), Fonderie Darling, Comité conseil - Chaire de recherche de l'UQÀM sur la gouvernance des musées et le droit de la culture, and Comité consultatif
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Charles Othon Frédéric Jean-Baptiste de Clarac


Charles Othon Frédéric Jean-Baptiste, Comte de Clarac (24 June 1777, Paris – 20 January 1847, Paris) was a French artist, scholar and archaeologist. He published a catalogue of the Musée du Louvre, and a "Manuel de l'Histoire de l'art" and also that which is considered his best work: the "Musée de sculpture antique et moderne", 1826-1852, completed after his death. Having served for some time in the army of prince Conde, and afterward entered a Russian regiment. After
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Evelyne Axell


1945 », Maison de la Culture de la province de Namur, Namur 1992br “ARTificial WOMEN”, Galerie Cotthem, Zottegem 1999br « De Picasso à Magritte. 40 toiles pour 40 ans de jumelage entre Biarritz et Ixelles », Musée Bellevue, Biarritz 2001br « La vie en Pop », Galerie 51, Paris 2002br « Portrait en Namurois », Musée provincial des Arts anciens du Namurois, Namur 2003br “The 1960’s, Painting and Collages”, The Mayor Gallery, London 2009br « elles@centrepompidou », Centre Pompidou,
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Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature


, astonishing, strange and eclectic". The museum was founded in 1964 by wealthy French industrialist rugmaker François Sommer (1904-1973) and his wife Jacqueline, who were avid hunters and conservationists. It is operated by the Fondation de la Maison de la Chasse et de la Nature, which the couple also founded. The museum is housed within the Hôtel de Guénégaud (1651-1655), the only private mansion designed by architect François Mansart that still exists. Since 2002, it is also housed in the Hôtel de
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Karima Dirèche


« Ferdinand Duchêne ou la Kabylie transfigurée », Littératures coloniales. Métamorphoses du regard sur la Méditerranée et l’Afrique, sous la direction de J.R Henry et Lucienne Martini, EDISUD, Mémoires Méditerranéennes; - 1992, «Endogamie et intégration. Analyse des attitudes face au mariage des jeunes marseillais d’origine kabyle ». Anthropologie de l’immigration in Les Cahiers de l’IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence; CD-Rom : - L’Europe et le monde dominé : échanges, colonisations, confrontations, (documents, séquences pédagogiques, préparation au BAC),
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Léon Delarbre


conditions of his environment required Delarbre to forgo his previous interest in drawing landscape, figure and still-life subjects in an academic manner; instead, in a "radical and conscious shift", he drew the human suffering he witnessed. On his return to Paris his drawings were acquired by the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and are now exhibited in the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation in Besançon. He returned to Belfort and his position in the museum and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Delarbre
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Karima Dirèche


d’Hélène Claudot-Hawad, in Les Cahiers de l’IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence, 1996 ; - «Langue et identité dans la communauté kabyle de Marseille », in Etudes et documents berbères, n°7, Paris, 1990 ; Actes de colloque - 2014, Algerian jews : how to make the return journey ? in migrations borders(sous la direction de S. Mourlane et P. Sintes, Editions PIE, Peter Lang, Oxford ; - 2012, Texte d’introduction, La bienvenue et l’adieu. Migrants juifs et musulmans au Maghreb (
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Musée de la préfecture de police


The Musée des Collections Historiques de la Préfecture de Police, also known as the Musée de la Préfecture de Police, is a museum of police history in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is located in the Hôtel de police at 4, rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève. The museum is open daily except Sunday; admission is free. The museum was originally started by prefect Louis Lépine (1846-1933) for the Exposition Universelle (1900), and has gradually grown through subsequent years. It
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Musée national de la Marine


The Musée national de la Marine (National Navy Museum) is a maritime museum located in the Palais de Chaillot, Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It has annexes at Brest, Port-Louis, Rochefort (Musée National de la Marine de Rochefort), Toulon and Saint-Tropez. The permanent collection originates in a collection that dates back to Louis XV of France. In 1748, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau offered a collection of models of ships and naval installations to Louis XV of France, with
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Calais


la Dentelle et de la Mode de Calais and the Musée de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale (World War II museum). Cité internationale de la Dentelle et de la Mode de Calais is a lace and fashion museum located in an old Boulart factory on the canalside and contains workshops, a library and a restaurant and regularly puts on fashion shows. The World War II museum is located at Parc St Pierre opposite the town hall and south of the train station. The building is a former Nazi bunker and wartime military headquarters, built
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Hôtel de Guénégaud


Hôtel de Guénégaud refers to one of several 17th-century hôtels particulier, or large townhouses, in Paris. At 60, rue des Archives in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, this Hôtel de Guénégaud was built between 1651 and 1655 for Jean-François de Guénégaud des Brosses, secrétaire du Roi, maître des Comptes and conseiller d'État, by François Mansart (the only hôtel particulier this architect built to have fully survived). It now houses the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature and the Club de la chasse et
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Mdvanii


public art auctions in prestigious auction houses like "Hotel Drouot" in Paris were forthcoming. Mdvanii is in many of the world's museums: Mdvanii is included in "Le Musée de Louvre" in the "L’Union centrale des arts décoratifs" (UCAD), "Musée de la Mode et du Textile" (UFAC), which is part of "Musée des Arts Décoratifs" inaugurated by the "Union Française des Arts du Costume" in Paris. She is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Metropolitan Museum
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Philippe Saunier


Philippe Saunier (born 1972) is a French art historian who is chief curator at the Bureau de l'inventaire des collections et de la circulation des biens culturels at ministry of culture. He was formerly with the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée Picasso in Paris. He is the author with Thea Burns of "L'art du pastel" (2014) which was translated into English and published by Abbeville Press in 2015 as "The art of the pastel". From 2004 to 2006, Saunier was a curator at the Musée de l'Orangerie in
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Planoise


an oil lamp dating to Hellenistic Greece (between the first and fourth century BCE.) The objects are conserved in the Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'archéologie de Besançon (Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology.) During the 13th century the territory of Planoise officially became part of the Imperial city of Besançon, according to Jean de Chalon (earl of Bourgogne). In the 15th century the clergy of Besançon bought the territory and the hill of Planoise. The name "Planoise" first appears officially in records in 1435.
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Tania Mouraud


De la décoration à la décoration", Irène Constandse Uit Arnhem, avril 1994, Arnhem « Tania Mouraud remix", interview avec Ginette Lemaitre et Elein Fleiss, Paris Purple Prose, été « Beats Pulsares", catalogue de la collection de la Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations Paris, texte de Guy Tortosa Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, catalogue MAMCO, Genève « Tania Mouraud", Zeggen zonder te zeggen Cornel Bierens, Hedendaagse « Franse Kunst in Nederland", Association artistique d'action artistique France Kunst, avril 1994, p. 20
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Culture of Quebec


of museums, which include the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée de la civilisation and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Many of Quebec's artists have been educated in universities' arts faculties and specialized art schools. Notable schools include the Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec, the École nationale de théâtre du Canada, the École nationale de l'humour and the École nationale de cirque. Quebec rewards its singers, musicians, authors, actors, directors, dancers, etc. regularly. Among the
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Rascas de Bagarris


Pierre-Antoine Rascas, sieur de Bagarris et du Bourguet (15 February 1562 — 14 April 1620), was an advocate at the Parliament of Aix-en-Provence, and a founder of the science of historical numismatics. de Bagarris was one of the most notable antiquaries of his time. Rascas was born and died in Aix-en-Provence. Henri IV recognized his value, and placed him in charge of the royal collection of medals and antiquities kept at Fontainebleau, which formed one of the nuclei of the
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Musée des Arts Forains


The Musée des Arts Forains - Collection Jean-Paul Favand is a private museum of funfair objects located within the Pavillons de Bercy in the 12th arrondissement of Paris at 53, avenue des Terroirs de France, Paris, France, with temporary exhibition space at 64, rue des Pirogues de Bercy. It is open to the public by prior reservation. The museum was created by Jean Paul Favand, an actor and antiques dealer, from his private collection. It opened to the public in 1996, and now contains a variety of
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Jardin d'Oiseaux Tropicaux


The Jardin d'Oiseaux Tropicaux (6 hectares) is an aviary and botanical garden located on the Route de Valcros, La Londe-les-Maures, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. It is open daily; an admission fee is charged. The garden was established in 1989 and in 2008 was designated a "Jardin Remarquable" by the "Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication". It contains about 450 tropical birds representing 80 species from Asia, Africa, and South America, with notable collections
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Alfred Rozelaar Green


. The Art Centre also received the support of British artists of the time, such as Francis Bacon, Henry Moore, Julian Trevelyan, Graham Sutherland and Victor Pasmore, who visited and lectured frequently. 1959: Galerie du Colisée, Paris 1960: Galerie du Colisée, Paris / Galerie Les Calades, Avignon 1961: Galerie Saint-Placide, Paris / Galerie de la Chimère, St-Rémy-de-Provence / Musée de Carpentras 1962: Galerie Yvette Morin, Paris 1963: Musée d'Orange 1964: Galerie d'Art, Orange
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Musée de la chanson française


The Musée de la chanson française is a museum in La Planche, Loire-Atlantique, France. It is dedicated to the chanson (songs in French style) and the musicians that created and sang them. The museum was founded in 1995 with the help of the former maire of La Planche, Lucien Richard (). On 24 June of that year it was inaugurated by Michel Boschat, the subprefect of Loire-Atlantique. In 1998 the name "Musée de la chanson française" was officially deposited at the National Institute
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Jean-Paul Clébert


(1967), "Guide de la Provence mystérieuse" (1992) and a three volumes of the series "Provence antique" (vol. 1 in 19666, vol. 2 in 1970 and vol. 3 in 1992). He was awarded the Prix littéraire de Provence in 1988. He published the novels "L'Ermite" in 1984, "L'Alchimiste du Roi-Soleil" in 1994 and "L'Esprit des hauts lieux", in 2000. In 1996 he published "Dictionnaire du Surréalisme". In 1973 The Blockhouse
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Anne-Catherine Robert-Hauglustaine


the Prix Montgolfier for the exhibition "Visages de l’industrie", held in the Musée des arts et métiers in 2001, which subsequently traveled throughout France in 2002. In 2005, the book 1929–2004. "Parcours de Centraliens", which she co-authored with Jean-François Belhoste, received the Silver Top-Com distinction in the book category. The following year she received the same distinction in the journal category as Editor in Chief of "La Revue du Musée des arts et métiers". Through her work on the
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Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (Geneva)


out to new museums due to a lack of space. The "Musée d’Art et d’Histoire" heads the association for all art and historical museums in the city of Geneva, the "Musées d'Art et d'Histoire". The other museums in this group are the "Cabinet des Estampes" (graphics), the "Musée Ariana" (porcelain), the "Musée Rath" (special exhibitions), the "Maison Tavel" (history of Geneva), and the "Musée de l'Horlogerie et de l'Émaillerie" (timepieces
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Landmarks in Paris


include Café de Flore, Café Procope, and Café de la Rotonde, and academies and schools include the Académie française, the medical school Académie Nationale de Médecine, Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Collège Stanislas de Paris, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris Tech, and the American Graduate School in Paris, with its Business and Economics and International Relations and Diplomacy schools. Among the museums located in the 6th arrondissement are the Musée "Bible et Terre Sainte", Musée d'Anatomie Delmas-Orfila-Rouvière,
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Yverdon-les-Bains


d'Ailleurs" was visited by 12,000 visitors (the average in previous years was 9,838). In 2009 the "Musée d'Yverdon et région" was visited by 8,051 visitors (the average in previous years was 7,871). In 2009 the "Musée suisse de la Mode" was visited by 8,051 visitors (the average in previous years was 7,871). Yverdon-les-Bains is home to 2 libraries. These libraries include; the Bibliothèque publique Yverdon and the "Haute école d'ingénierie et de gestion du Canton de Vaud".
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History of the Jews in Alsace


historique" of Haguenau, in the "Musée d'Arts et Traditions Populaires" of Marmoutier, in the "Musée du vieux Soultz" of Soultz-Haut-Rhin, in the "Musée du pays de la Zorn" of Hochfelden, in the "Musée de l'image populaire" of Pfaffenhoffen and in the "Musée Bartholdi" of Colmar. The annual European Day of Jewish Culture was initiated in 1996 by the B'nai Brith of Bas-Rhin together with the local Agency for Development of Tourism. It now takes place in 27
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Kore of Lyons


The Kore of Lyons (French: "Coré de Lyon") is a Greek statue of Pentelic marble depicting a bust of a young girl of the kore type, conserved at the musée des beaux-arts de Lyon, France. Deriving from the Athenian Acropolis, it is generally dated to the 540s BC. Considered the centrepiece of the museum's antiquities department, the statue was acquired between 1808 and 1810. The sculpture is fragmentary: the bust is conserved in the musée des beaux-arts de Lyon under the inventory
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Gabriel Camps


From 1962 to 1969, he worked as director of the Centre de recherches anthropologiques, préhistoriques et ethnologiques (CRAPE) and of the National Ethnographic and Prehistoric Museum of Bardo at Algiers. He also directed the Institut de recherches sahariennes and the magazine "Libyca". In 1969, he moved to Aix-en-Provence, where he worked as professor of the University of Provence. There he founded the Laboratoire d'anthropologie et de préhistoire de la Méditerranée occidentale (LAPMO), frequented by numerous students, mostly from Maghreb countries.
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Hans Gissinger


work has been featured in several individual exhibitions in museums and galleries in the United States and in France, including the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris in 2000 and the Musée de la Citadelle in 2004, as well as in numerous group exhibitions in France and around the world. His work can be found in important private and public collections in Europe and the United States. He is based in New York City. Gissinger was born in 1946 in Zurich, Switzerland, and lived there until finishing his secondary
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Laurent Pariente


, Lyon, musée d’Art contemporain, 1991. - Comme rien d’autre que des rencontres, Antwerp, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, 1994. - Collection 1992, musée d’Art contemporain, Lyon, 1995. - Container 96 – Art Across the Oceans, Copenhagen, 1996. - Produire, créer, collectionner, collection de la Caisse des dépôts et consignations, Paris, Hazan, 1998. - Non-lieu, Le Plateau, Fonds régional d'art contemporain d'Île-de-France, La lettre volée, Paris, 2004. -
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Paul Henri Mallet


traite de la religion, des moeurs, des lois, et des usages des anciens Danois". A second part, more particularly relating to Danish literature, "Monuments de la mythologie et de la poesie des Celtes, et particulierement des anciens Scandinaves", was issued in 1756, and was also translated into Danish. A translation into English, with notes and preface, by Bishop Thomas Percy, was issued in 1770 under the title of "Northern Antiquities" (republished with additions in 1847). The book had a
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