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The Paris metro seen by Akemi Noguchi

Musée de l'Histoire de Paris - Carnavalet

Opening : From the 2008-10-10 to the 2009-02-01
Timing : Exhibits open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm, except holidays

FREE ENTRY

As part of the 150th anniversary of Franco-Japanese relations, the Carnavalet museum presents the work of the engraver Japanese Akemi Noguchi (born 1946) on the Paris metro.
The fifty boards exposed, some of which are the subject of a donation to museum shows eyes of the artist on these ordinary places a priori which he knows extract elements of a very personal universe, strange and poetic.
The visitor is invited to a walk over groundwater stations almost deserted, traveled by train ghosts, where there are incongruous characters: a woman holding a pig on a leash (The Chapel), a girl pushing a hoop (Kléber), a knight (Gare d'Austerlitz) or a motorcyclist (bleach). Sometimes, the sea invaded the tracks, and no surprise then to see a couple of dolphins (Pont de l'Alma) and even a seal at attention you, taking bucket and brush, which meets an squadron of fighter jets (Chatelet-les Halles). Each station is a pretext for the artist to create a microcosm dreamlike from the associations of ideas that suggest the name of the station, the neighborhood where it is located, posters contained therein, or his own experience.
The boards, graphics clean, are all designed on the same principle and show a portion of dock with still clearly visible, the panel name that identifies the station. The sober palette, dominated by black and beige, comes alive fragments of color: a touch of raw green or pink, wide beaches referring to the blue sky or water sometimes raise the rigor of the construction . They emphasize certain details, elements of signs, advertisements or clothing of users.
The look different and subtle qu'Akemi Noguchi is on the Paris metro will certainly influence the vision that its users daily and indifferent may have extensive network of the capital.

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Les Misérables de Victor Hugo - Deux expositions pour un roman

Musée de l'Histoire de Paris - Carnavalet

Opening : From the 2008-10-10 to the 2009-02-01
Timing : Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm, except holidays
Rates : Price: 5 €uro
Reduced: 3.50 €uro
Young rate: 2.50 €uro
Free until 13 years and included the Friends of museum

PARIS IN THE TIME OF VICTOR HUGO MISERABLES - Carnavalet Museum

The exhibition at the Carnavalet museum presents a unique reading of Paris where Misérables proves to be the main character in the novel by Victor Hugo.
Like a traveling survey, it follows the pattern and timing of the work and immerses the visitor in the heart of the plot in the footsteps of Jean Valjean, Cosette, Fantine or Marius ... The Paris years 1815 to 1833 returns, mentioned by a group of about 220 paintings, photographs, maps, prints and art objects from almost all of the rich collections Carnavalet.
Indefatigable pedestrian in the city, Victor Hugo knows its neighborhoods and monuments, but for the purposes of narration, he took liberties in relation to reality, displacing some sites, changing the face of certain neighborhoods. Champs-Elysees to the current thirteenth district, the Marais district outside the boulevards, Luxembourg at Les Halles, the exhibition helps to reveal the part of Paris reinvented under his pen of the real Paris. The book also to the public the secrets of Victor Hugo, revealing the autobiographical events that the author often refers in several passages of the book.
The presentation, comparing old maps and current plans, allows to put episodes of the novel in contemporary capitalism as an invitation to a walk in the footsteps of Les Misérables.



Commissioners, Carnavalet museum
Danielle Chadych responsible for Documentary Studies
Charlotte-Lacour Veyranne responsible for Documentary Studies





LES MISERABLES chip culture, a novel STRANGER? - Maison de Victor Hugo

The exhibition at the Maison de Victor Hugo proposes to make the reality of the novel. Of course, everyone knows Les Miserables: Jean Valjean, Javert, Fantine, Cosette, Gavroche ... We know the musical, we studied some passages in school. But the book, the real, original, has there read?
Surprising and unexpected, this exhibition combines history and fiction, emotion and thought, works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to better understand the polyphony of the Victor Hugo novel which itself said it was "a major summits, if this is the principal of my work. "





Bullet-culture VISITS CONFERENCES IN EXHIBITION Paris at the time of Misérables Victor Hugo
As of Thursday, October 23, visits and conferences are offered every Thursday and Saturday from October to December to 15.30, except the 1st November, 25 and 27 December.
Duration: 1h30
Full price: € 5.50





Bullet culture GOLF GAME IN TWO EXHIBITIONS

A path-free game is offered to young visitors of the two exhibitions, from 8 years.

Carnavalet Museum later, Victor Hugo invites children to dive into the Paris of his day in which he imagined the characters in miseries. A journey Thursday they will discover a forgotten Paris with its chimney sweeps, its barriers to granting its signs or monumental elephant installed at the Bastille.
Côté Maison de Victor Hugo, is conducting an investigation that the police inspector Javert, helped children, will slowly unravel the story and sometimes tragic main character, Jean Valjean and Cosette. They will see that is not always the most wicked one who seems ... "




BROCHURE-chip culture COURSE IN LE MARAIS: "The Swamp of Misérables by Victor Hugo"

This free brochure outlines the various routes in the Marais of the three main protagonists, Gavroche, Inspector Javert and Jean Valjean, backed a plan and photographs of places of action. In addition, he pointed out some works of the Carnavalet museum referring to the novel by Victor Hugo.

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Benjamin Franklin - an American in Paris, 1776-1785

Musée de l'Histoire de Paris - Carnavalet

Opening : From the 2007-12-05 to the 2008-03-09

While most of us have heard of Benjamin Franklin, few of us would be able to pinpoint
the exact occupation of this versatile historical figure. Was he a scientist,
a writer or a diplomat? In fact, he was all that and more....

The tricentennial of Benjamin Franklin’s birth was celebrated recently.
Famous on both sides of the Atlantic for his invention of the lightning rod
and his experiments with electricity, Franklin was also a leading politician
who helped to draft the United States Constitution. This American representative
of the Age of the Enlightenment lived in Paris towards the close of the Ancien
Régime.

The Musée Carnavalet is paying homage to Benjamin Franklin on his three
hundredth birth anniversary, retracing his diplomatic mission to Paris from
1776 to 1785 during the American War of Independence, his social life amongst
the enlightened circles of the time, his extraordinary celebrity and the way
his ideas influenced the French Revolution.

The exhibition provides an opportunity to rediscover this illustrious historical
figure, who will undoubtedly continue to influence our daily life and be included
in children’s textbooks for a long time to come. A must-see.

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