IV.2.3. THE CITY MUSEUM AND THE INSURRECTIONS

MENU: 4.2.3. City Museum & the insurrections

PARIS STANDS OUT FOR

THE CULTURE OF ITS ELITES

AND FOR ITS INSURRECTIONS

How does the Carnavalet City Museum

present them?

(Renovated, 2016-2022)

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The palatial townhouse of the Marquise de Sévigny is now the historical museum. "I think I will be happy here," she wrote.

In brief

• A spectacular homage to the elites

• A French Revolution becomes almost peaceful

• Before the renovation 

• 1830: The capitalist triumph gets attention and the chic replace the humble

• February 1848: A painting, relics and an absence  

• June 1848: A table at the back of the room  

• Barricades, a game for kids

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A spectacular homage to the elites