IV.I.4. THE CITY MUSEUM AND THE INSURRECTIONS

MENU: 4.1.3. City Museum & the insurrections

PARIS STANDS OUT FOR THE CULTURE OF ITS ELITES AND FOR ITS INSURRECTIONS

How does the Carnavalet City Museum show that split?

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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

• The French Revolution is almost peaceful

• 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: A table at the back of the room  

• Barricades, a game for kids

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A spectacular homage to the elites