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Cultural outings organized by the association
2022 releases
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
A day in Paris:
Bibliothèque nationale de France - Richelieu site
After twelve years of renovation work, the Richelieu site is now open to the public.
Take a guided tour of the new museum. The museum's encyclopedic collections, laid out in seven thematic rooms, combine the memory of the written word, the world of images and objects.
Visit the temporary exhibition "Molière, le jeu du vrai et du faux". To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Molière's birth, the BnF and the Comédie française are presenting works of art, original editions, costumes, photos and audiovisual documents.
Discover the Salle Ovale, where you'll have free access to almost 6,000 books on the history of the arts and heritage, 9,000 comic strips, digital devices, magazines, sound, video and multimedia portals.
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Lives and works
The Musée Antoine Vivenel, the Centre Ressource Lecture and photographer Marc Mounier Kuhn invite you to search for resonances between past and present, between societies of yesteryear and the contemporary world.
The exhibition invites you to rediscover remarkable pieces from the Musée Antoine Vivenel, reinterpreted by the photographer and learners from the Centre Ressource Lecture. The artistic project has also been exported to the façades of buildings in the Pompidou and Royallieu districts, in the form of monumental photographic collages.
Presented by Delphine Jeannot, Director of Compiègne Museums, this free tour is organized especially for Friends.
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Art Deco in Saint-Quentin
In the aftermath of the Great War, Saint-Quentin took up the challenge of reconstruction. The Art Deco style spread through the streets, in public buildings, shops and homes, the town's emblematic heritage.
▪ Guided walking tour of the main Art Deco monuments and facades;
▪ guided tour of the Palais de l'Art Déco, formerly the Nouvelles Galeries building, a major work of interwar architecture;
▪ guided tour of the Buffet de la Gare, which preserves the creations of master glass and mosaic artist Auguste Labouret. Listed as a Historic Monument;
▪ guided tour of the Casino, inaugurated in 1929, a recently restored former cinema and music hall.
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Francières, Saint-Martin-aux-Bois, Rémy
In the morning, guided tour of the Sucrerie de Francières, a testimony to the industrial, technological and human activity of our region.
The buildings of the sugar factory have been enriched with a center for interpretation of the sugar industry and discovery of agro-industries.
In the afternoon, guided tour of the abbey church of Saint-Martin-aux-Bois. A vessel of stone and glass, the chevet has just been restored.
The church boasts impressive stained glass windows, a prestigious collection of stalls with flamboyant Gothic decoration, and a 15th-century mural discovered in 2004.
On the way back, we'll visit the Church of Saint-Denis in Rémy, a church with a remarkable yet little-known heritage: twenty-six stalls from the mid-16th century and nine stained glass windows, created by Abbé Deligny, in an original artistic language (cf: stained glass windows in Jonquières).
You'll also discover the amazing story of the restoration of the church's stained glass windows thanks to an American association.
Friday, June 10, 2022 at 10 a.m
visit to the "Ivoire, Ivoires" exhibition
at the Centre Antoine Vivenel
17 rue James de Rothschild (Parc de Songeons)
The exhibition retraces the itineraries and reveals the interpretations of a noble, rare, exotic, refined and imperishable material, an emblem of power and wealth, at the origin of ritual, decorative and utilitarian objects that have marked the history of art and crafts the world over.
Works from the rich collections of the Musée Antoine Vivenel, supplemented by loans from renowned museums, cover the period from the 9th to the 19th century.
Presented by Delphine Jeannot, Director of the Museums of Compiègne, this free tour is organized especially for Friends.
Thursday, April 28, 2022
A day in Paris
Visit Saint-Germain-des-Prés church and the French Senate
Morning visit:
Visit toSaint-Germain-des-Prés church.
Founded under the reign of Childebert I on the advice of Germain, Bishop of Paris, in the heart of the district of the same name, it is considered the oldest church in Paris.
Despite transformations over time, it has retained its original features, giving it an undeniable Romanesque appearance.
Recent restoration work has enhanced the paintings on the vaults and choir of this venerable church.
Lunch at "Le Bouillon Racine" restaurant, created in 1906 by the Chartier brothers. The Art Nouveau-style building is a listed historic monument.
Afternoon:
Visit to the Senate.
The Palais du Luxembourg was built in 1615 for Marie de Médicis by the architect Salomon de Brosse on the model of Tuscan palaces.
Successively a princely residence, a prison during the Revolution, a Chamber of Peers during the Restoration and the current seat of the Senate since the 5th Republic, it is home to an exceptional artistic heritage.
We were welcomed by Laurence Rossignol, Vice-President of the Senate, who gave us access to the hemicycle for a very interesting presentation on the workings and responsibilities of the Senate.
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
A day in Médan and Marly-le-Roi
Morning:
Guided tour of the Maison Zola in Médan, followed by a self-guided tour of the Musée Dreyfus.
Emile Zola lived and wrote in this house for almost 25 years, giving us an intimate view of the novelist and the author of "J'accuse". The condemnation of Captain Dreyfus marked Zola's commitment to the cause and linked the destinies of these two men.
Housed in an outbuilding of the Maison Zola, the Dreyfus Museum invites visitors to rediscover the roots of the Dreyfus affair, and to consider its present-day implications.
Afternoon:
guided tour of the Domaine royal de Marly.
The château and its twelve pavilions were built as Louis XIV's country residence, a place of pleasure where he spent weekends surrounded by guests and privileged courtiers. The Musée du Domaine's collections tell the story of the buildings, the Marly machine, royal visits under Louis XIV and Louis XV, and the vicissitudes of the estate, which was destroyed in the 19th century.
Updated December 3, 2024
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