V.5. THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM AND THE INSURRECTIONS

MENU: 5.5. Historical museum & insurrections

PARIS STANDS OUT FOR TWO THINGS: THE CULTURE OF ITS ELITES AND ITS INSURRECTIONS

How does the Musée Carnavalet show them?

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

It magnifies the élites

 and almost omits the social conflicts.

• A spectacular homage to the elites

• A French Revolution that is almost peaceful

• The 19th-century insurrections as shown before the renovation

• 1830: Capitalism wins and elegant fighters replace plebeians

• February 1848: announcements, medals, bourgeois, a sash, furniture, a proclamation... but no humble fighters

• June 1848: one sentence at the back of the floor

• Barricades, a game for kids

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A spectacular homage to the elites