Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine



 


Before relocating to the Bois de Boulogne and closing in 2005.
 


Consulted Jean Cassou to start the Free French of France
 


Inside the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine.
 

Location of Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine

Description of the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine

The Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine is an architectural and heritage museum placed in the Palais de Chaillot facing the Musée de l’Homme. Rolled in 2007, the Cité de l’Architecture et due Patrimoine occupies 250,000 square feet and features close to 1000 year dated architectural depictions in Romanesque, medieval, gothic and baroque French fashion. The museum was cited in 1882 as the Museum of Comparative Sculpture after Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc worked to display a collection of plaster casts and has recently been named the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine taking over from the Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires that removed to the Bois de Boulogne and closed in 2005. Boasting a library that coats 14,850 square feet on-site and uses more than 30 languages in a collection overshadowing 45,000 books and 450 periodicals, the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine is the place to go for French architectural history and underlines equal access for all visitors. A 200 square meter reception hall, a Saint-Savin room that provokes researchers with paintings and dim lighting, a documentary database that covers the collection the library offers, and an open-access policy further sets the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine on an impressive scale that promises access to architectural research. Visitors to the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine can journey through the architectural formations from the Middle Ages to the present while enjoying a coffee or tea as well as pastry or a sandwich due to a café that hews a “killer view,”[1] on the Seine River and the Eiffel Tower. The Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine also hews a bookstore and conducts guided tours and video tours with games for children. While warfare in France has prompted medieval artifacts to slump into destruction and the museum has fallen victim at a fire in 1997, the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine has carried on to showcase historic architectural development. [1] Sally Peabody, “Cite de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine: Museum at Trocadero,” Bonjour Paris: The Insider’s Guide, February 13, 2010, , accessed November 24, 2017 , https://bonjourparis.com/archives/cite-architecture-patrimoine-museum-trocadero/.

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The 250,000 square foot building called the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine was set as the Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires during the term the Musée de l'Homme opposition came into formation to dispense anti-Nazi propaganda.[1] While the intellectual rebel circle upheld operation in the Musée de l'Homme, the Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires seeded the roots for an underground resistance.[2] Agnès Humbert arrived in Paris in August 1940 to restate her job as curator to the Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires and was sickened to see the museum did not remain the same and had been purged and reclassified.[3] The Germans were intent on hoisting propaganda for the Third Reich and the shelves at the Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires led books from second-rate German writers including Montandon's Les Races.[4] Writings constituted by first-rate Jewish authors had been removed and photographs that relisted public strikes in 1936 had vanished.[5] Humbert labeled her "strong dose of rage,"[6] to Musée d'Art Modern director and old friend Jean Cassou to unite ten conspirators as the Free French of France and would showcase as the typist and secretary for the Réseau du Musée de l'Homme newsprint.[7]

Humbert was further stifled with the "society,"[8] ladies that swarmed the corridors and the offices of the Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires.[9] Parisians had focused away from the war in the face of defeat as well as occupation to day-to-day survival and the museum became flocked with "ladies of considerable charm, elegance, and wealth,"[10] who spoke of having intimate blends to the Marshal Pétain regime in southern France.[11] They hailed for a "new France,"[12] that directed attention to their ordeal and made common cause to remind Humbert that she did not bear notions of a society woman.[13] The Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires revived a sickness in Humbert to oppose German rule and sparked the Réseau du Musée de l'Homme resistance.[14]

[1] David Schoenbrun, Soldiers of the Night: The Story of the French Resistance (Scarborough: New American Library, 1980), 74.

[2] Schoenbrun, Soldiers of the Night, 70.: Lynne Taylor, Between Resistance and Collaboration: Popular Protest in Northern France, 1940-45 (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press Ltd, 2000), 63.

[3] Schoenbrun, Soldiers of the Night, 73.: Alan Riding, And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010), 109.: Agnès Humbert, Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France, trans. Barbara Mellor (London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2008), 10.

[4] Harry Roderick Kedward, Occupied France: Collaboration and Resistance 1940-1944 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1985), 3.: Schoenbrun, Soldiers of the Night, 73.: Humbert, Resistance, 10.

[5] Schoenbrun, Soldiers of the Night, 73.: Humbert, Resistance, 10.

[6] Schoenbrun, Soldiers of the Night, 73.

[7] Schoenbrun, Soldiers of the Night, 73.: Humbert, Resistance, 11-12.: Riding, And the Show Went On, 109-110.: Margaret Collins. Weitz, Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France 1940-1945 (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 1995), 59.

[8] Schoenbrun, Soldiers of the Night, 73.

[9] Ibid., p. 73.: Humbert, Resistance, 15.

[10] Humbert, Resistance, 15.

[11] Kedward, Occupied France, 2, 4.: Schoenbrun, Soldiers of the Night, 73.: Humbert, Resistance, 15.

[12] Humbert, Resistance, 15.

[13] Schoenbrun, Soldiers of the Night, 73.: Humbert, Resistance, 15.

[14] Schoenbrun, Soldiers of the Night, 73.


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