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Wednesday, December 6, 2017
A day in Paris
Fashion, then and now: Fortuny and Christian Dior
Morning:
Musée des Arts décoratifs (Espace Mode et Textile), 107 rue de Rivoli
Guided tour of the "Christian Dior, couturier du rêve" exhibition.
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs celebrates the 70th anniversary of the creation of the House of Dior, with a huge retrospective featuring over 400 of the great couturier's dresses, as well as numerous documents and works of art that influenced his work (E. Vigée Le Brun, Winterhalter, Monet, Brassaï).
Afternoon:
Palais Galliéra, 10 avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie.
Guided tour of the "Fortuny, a Spaniard in Venice" exhibition.
The Palais Galliéra, a fashion museum, is devoting an exhibition to Mariano Fortuny, a Spanish-born couturier based in Venice. Some one hundred pieces from the Galliéra collection, as well as from museums in Madrid and Venice, are on display, including the famous "Delphes" dress in finely pleated silk.
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
A day in Arras:
- Remembrance of the First World War
- Centenary of the Battle of Arras
Morning:
Guided tour of the Wellington Quarry: Discover a veritable underground city, where over 20,000 Commonwealth soldiers prepared for the biggest surprise attack of the First World War: the Battle of Arras, on April 9, 1917.
Afternoon:
Vimy - Notre-Dame-de-Lorette" tour by coach with a tour guide.
Canadian National Memorial erected on the site of the Battle of Vimy Ridge (April 9-12, 1917).
Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, France's largest national necropolis: nearly 45,000 soldiers are buried in the cemetery and seven ossuaries.
An impressive international memorial, the Anneau de la Mémoire, was inaugurated on November 11, 2014.
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
An afternoon at the Franco-American Museum at Blérancourt Castle
After a few years of closure, the reopening of the Château de Blérancourt will be full of surprises. This will be an opportunity to see or discover its monumental portal and the delicately ornamented corner pavilions of the terrace, vestiges of the 17th-century château: a former aristocratic summer residence, the work of French architect Salomon de Brosse.
Then there are the new features: the restoration and reopening of the Salon d'Anne Morgan, built in 1924 by Anne Morgan, director of the American humanitarian organization in the Aisne region during the Great War. And then there are the very recent discoveries of important archaeological remains of the curtain walls (13th c.), fortified house (14th c.) and four-arched bridge (16th c.).
Finally, a visit to the Franco-American Museum and its new, modern exhibition and collection spaces.
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
A day in Boulogne-sur-Mer
Morning:
panoramic tour of the city by coach (with tour guide), followed by a visit to Notre-Dame Basilica, built in the 19th century in neo-classical style. Its dome, modelled on St. Paul's in London, dominates the city from a height of over 100 m.
Afternoon:
Guided tour of the castle-museum. The former château comtal, with its Gothic halls, is an excellent example of 13th-century civil and military architecture. It houses the Musée de Boulogne: the department devoted to Egypt, with its magnificent Greek vases, is of particular interest, but the museum also presents objects (Alaskan masks in particular) from extra-European civilizations, and a very rich collection of Flemish, Italian and French paintings and sculptures from the 15th to the 19th century.
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
A day in Paris, two unusual walks:
- By boat: Cruise on the Canal Saint-Martin
- On foot: Discover the Cité Internationale Universitaire
Morning tour:
Discovery of the Canal St-Martin, with the Récollets lock and its various footbridges, the Arsenal marina and then, on the Seine, a visit to the Île Saint-Louis, the Île de la Cité, the Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay.
Afternoon:
Visit to the Cité Internationale Universitaire, a very special campus created between 1925 and 1969, where students from all over the world live together in 37 pavilions built in the traditional styles of their respective countries, such as the Japanese pavilion decorated with frescoes by the painter Foujita, or the neo-Gothic Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe, reminiscent of an English campus.
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Visit to the "Italian Drawings" exhibition
in Antoine Vivenel's papers
As a complement to the "Italian Hours" devoted to painting, on offer this year in the museums of our region, the exhibition presents a collection of drawings and prints assembled by Antoine Vivenel, most of which have never been seen before, illustrating the richness of Italian painters' styles and the variety of drawing techniques.
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
A half-day trip to Villers-Cotterêts
Guided tour of the Alexandre Dumas Museum, which preserves the memories of the "three Dumas":
general Dumas, the officer of the Revolution, born in Saint-Domingue;his son Alexandre, born in Villers-Cotterêts, prolific author - among others - of "Les Trois Mousquetaires";his grandson Alexandre, author of "La Dame aux Camélias".
Guided tour of the Pavillon Henri II, an outbuilding of the former château of François 1er.
The interior is richly decorated, with wood panelling, coffered ceilings, sculptures, murals and ornamental motifs in gold leaf... Built in the 16th century, possibly by Philibert Delorme, it was enlarged and renovated in the mid-18th century by the Duc d'Orléans.
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Presentation of the new rooms at the Antoine Vivenel Museum
On Wednesday January 18 at 2pm, a presentation of Champlieu's new rooms was given at the Musée Vivenel.
Updated August 26, 2023
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