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Cluny Museum: Other Paris museums of painting and sculpture than the two mentioned above, omitting here the galleries of modern-to-contemporary art, are the Petit Palais, with "A Century of French Art," the Rodin Museum, the Luxembourg Museum, the Cluny, for its antiquities and medieval treasures; and there are, of course, several private galleries, such as the Musee Jacquemart-Andre, the Musee Henner and the Musee Cognaci Jay, this on the boulevard des Capucines, almost opposite the Cafe de Paix.
In the provinces, almost every regional capital has a museum of some interest, for it may be said that in France artistic creation "comes naturally" and has done so for many centuries.A little way in from the river, on the Left Bank, there are many sights to find. Some of the chief ones are: The charming Cluny Museum, with superb collections of medieval cabinetry and of bronze, silver, enamel, glass and ivory bibelots, including ceintures de chastete in various materials, which departing Crusaders used to fasten with padlocks upon their wives to insure chastity during their absence; the Pantheon, a sort of French Westminster Abbey, with the tombs of such literary celebrities as Rousseau, Voltaire, Victor Hugo; the queer but lovable Church of St-Etienne-du-Mont, behind the Pantheon; the Luxembourg Palace, housing the Council of the Republic (today's name for the Senate), with its adjacent Museum, devoted chiefly to contemporary sculpture and painting, and its lovely formal gardens; the imposing but architecturally jumbled Church of St-Sulpice; and the Rodin Museum, housing many of that sculptor's original works. Rather too far from the river for strolling lie the world-known Gobelins Tapestry Works, at 42 ave. des Gobelins, whose displays are open to the public three times a week.
The United States, excellent firearms col-may be viewed at the Springfield (Mass.) Museum; West Point (N. Y.) Museum; States National Museum (Smithsonian, angton, D. C.); Winchester Gun Museum, Haven, Conn.; Connecticut State Library Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.; J. )avis Collection, Claremore, Okla.; Metzger tion, College Station, Texas; Confederate , Richmond, Va.; Huntington (West Va.) ; Milwaukee Public Museum; Metropoli-[useum of Art, New York; and the Chicka-and Chattanooga Military Park, Fort ipe, Ga. |
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