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July 28, 2012 by Max Distro LLC

French Maritime Museum, Paris

Napoleon III Visit to Genes, Maritime Museum Paris

Napoleon III Visit to Genes, Maritime Museum Paris

If you are visiting the Eiffel tower and looking for something else to do, you might consider the French Maritime Museum at the Trocadero, the largest in the world. Apart from Napoleon’s canot, seen below, another striking feature in the first room at the Paris Musée de la Marine is the painting of the arrival of Napoleon III at Gênes in 1859, by Théodore Gudin seen above.

Napoleon I Canot, French Maritime Museum at the Trocadero, Paris

Napoleon I Canot, French Maritime Museum at the Trocadero, Paris

In 1748, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau offered a collection of models of ships and naval installations to Louis XV of France, with the request that the items be displayed at the Louvre and made available to students of the Naval engineers school, which Duhamel headed. The collection was put on display in 1752, in a room of the first floor, next to the Academy of Sciences; the room was called “Salle de Marine” (Navy room), and was used for teaching. King Charles X decided to create the maritime museum in 1827, which he named the Musée Dauphin but after 1830 the name was changed to what we know it as today, the Musée de Marine.

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Filed Under: France, History, Museums, Painting, Paris, Sculpture Tagged With: Cannon, Chevalier de Tourville, French Maritime Museum, Henry IV, Henry V, Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager, Jean-François Hue, Kurt Buzard MD, Le Louis Quinze, Louis XIV, Louis-Philippe Crépin, Model Ships, Musee de la Marine, Museums, Napoleon I, Napoleon III, Painting, Paul Emmanuel Gallard-Lepinay, Sculpture, Théodore Gudin, Valmy, Venguer

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