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On August 27th, in anticipation of air raids, workmen had begun taking down the stained glass windows of the Sainte-Chapelle.The same day, curators at the Louvre, summoned back from summer vacation, and aided by packers from the nearby La Samaritaine and Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville department stores, began cataloging and packing the major works of art, which were put into crates and labeled ...
The Musée de l'Armée was created in 1905 with the merger of the Musée d'Artillerie and the Musée Historique de l'Armée. [1] The Musée de l'artillerie (Museum of Artillery – "artillerie" meaning all things related to weapons) was founded in 1795 in the aftermath of the French Revolution, and expanded under Napoleon.
French Resistance museums and memorials commemorate people and events associated with the French movements, collectively known as the French Resistance (French: La Résistance) that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and the collaborationist Vichy régime during the Second World War.
The last art piece to leave the museum was the Winged Victory of Samothrace, which was moved on September 3, 1939, the day the French ultimatum to Germany expired. [ 7 ] Throughout the war, the art pieces were clandestinely moved from château to château to avoid being taken back by the Nazis. [ 1 ]
The Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation (English: Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation) [2] is a memorial to the 200,000 people who were deported from Vichy France to the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. It is located in Paris, France, on the site of a former morgue, underground behind Notre Dame on Île de la Cité.
The entrance to the museum. The Musée du Général Leclerc de Hauteclocque et de la Libération de Paris – Musée Jean Moulin (French pronunciation: [myze dy ʒeneʁal ləklɛʁ də otklɔk e də la libeʁasjɔ̃ də paʁi myze ʒɑ̃ mulɛ̃]) was a museum located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris at 23, Allée de la 2e DB, Jardin Atlantique, Paris, France.
History of the French Resistance from its inception up to the Liberation in World War II Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace: Le Bourget: Seine-Saint-Denis: Aerospace: Features 400 aircraft, 150 of which are on display, history of aviation, ballooning and space exploration Musée de l'histoire vivante: Montreuil: Seine-Saint-Denis: Local history
Mémorial de la Shoah is the Holocaust museum in Paris, France. [1] The memorial is in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, in the Marais district, which had a large Jewish population at the beginning of World War II. [2] The memorial was opened, by President Jacques Chirac, on 27 January 2005.