Musée de l'Histoire de France
Musée de l'Histoire de France
- Address
- Transport
- Website
- Phone
- 01 40 27 60 96
- Price
- adult/senior & 18-25yr €3/2.30
- Hours
- 10am-12.30pm & 2-5.30pm Mon & Wed-Fri, 2-5.30pm Sat & Sun
Lonely Planet review for Musée de l'Histoire de France
Early 18th-century Hôtel de Rohan-Soubise also contains the Musée de l’Histoire de France. The museum contains antique furniture and 18th-century paintings but primarily documents – everything from medieval incunabula and letters written by Joan of Arc to the wills of Louis XIV and Napoleon. The ceiling and walls of the interior are extravagantly painted and gilded in the rococo style; look out for the Cabinet des Singes, a room filled with frescoes of playful, cheeky monkeys painted by Christophe Huet between 1749 and 1752.
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