Over 600 works – paintings, sculptures, costumes, objets d’art, furniture – plunge the visitor into the artistic, cultural and political ferment of the time. The exhibition’s immersive design takes the form of a tour of the period’s emblematic Paris sites : the Tuileries, the Palais-Royal, the Nouvelle Athènes quarter, Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame, and the Grand Boulevards and their theatres. At the same time an additional segment at the Musée de la Vie Romantique rounds off the exhibition with a look at the city’s literary and high-society salons.
General curators : Christophe Leribault, Jean-Marie Bruson and Cécilie Champy
Associate curators :
Gérard Audinet, directeur, Maisons de Victor Hugo, Paris et Guernesey
Yves Gagneux, directeur, Maison de Balzac
Audrey Gay-Mazuel, conservatrice du patrimoine, musée des Arts
décoratifs
Sophie Grossiord, conservatrice générale, Palais Galliera
Maïté Metz, conservatrice du patrimoine, musée Carnavalet
Cécile Reynaud, directrice d’études, EPHE
Gaëlle Rio, directrice, musée de la Vie romantique
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