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THE MARAIS AND ITS LEGACY

50 YEARS OF PROTECTION SINCE THE MALRAUX LAW

PRESSKIT NOVEMBER 2015

CARNAVALET MUSEUM - HISTORY OF PARIS

EXHIBITION 4th

NOVEMBER 2015 – 28

th FEBRUARY

2016

INFORMATION www.carnavalet.paris.fr

http://www.carnavalet.paris.fr/

The Marais and its legacy: 50 years of protection since the Malraux Law 4th

November 2015 - 28th

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CONTENTS

CONTENTS ......................................................................................................................................................... 2

PRESS RELEASE .............................................................................................................................................. 3

THE EXHIBITION’S MAIN THEMES ................................................................................................................. 4

An exhibition that represents the Carnavalet Museum’s renovation .............................................................................................................. 4

The Marais’s residents .................................................................................................................................................................................. 4

A sensory approach to the Marais ................................................................................................................................................................. 5

The Malraux Law at the birth of protected sectors ........................................................................................................................................ 6

Contemporary design in the heart of the Marais ........................................................................................................................................... 6

Stakeholders in preserving the Marais .......................................................................................................................................................... 7

An invitation for a tour ................................................................................................................................................................................... 8

CULTURAL PROGRAMME ............................................................................................................................... 9

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE EXHIBITION ..................................................................................... 11

DIGITAL DISPLAYS ........................................................................................................................................ 12

CATALOGUE .................................................................................................................................................... 13

PRESS VISUALS ............................................................................................................................................. 14

SPONSORS ....................................................................................................................................................... 16

THE CARNAVALET MUSEUM – HISTORY OF PARIS .................................................................................. 19

PARIS MUSÉES, A PUBLICLY OWNED NETWORK OF THE CITY OF PARIS’S MUSEUMS .............. 20

PRACTICAL INFORMATION .......................................................................................................................... 21

Private viewing Tuesday 3

rd November from 10am.

Press contacts – Carnavalet Museum Constance Lombard Director of communications, press and partnerships

Email: [email protected] Tel.: + 33(0)1 44 59 58 38

André Arden Press officer

Email: [email protected].: + 33 (0)1 44 59 58 76

mailto:[email protected]





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PRESS RELEASE

« Sur la plupart de ces quais au-delà de

Notre-Dame ne figure aucun monument

illustre […]. Ils sont les décors privilégiés

d'un rêve que Paris dispensa au monde, et

nous voulons protéger ces décors à l'égal de

nos monuments. »

André Malraux. Intervention à l’Assemblée Nationale, 23 juillet 1962.

40 ans après la mort d’André Malraux et à

l’occasion du 50e

anniversaire du tracé du premier secteur sauvegardé parisien, le musée Carnavalet propose une exposition dédiée au Marais, quartier qui occupe une place singulière dans le cœur des Parisiens.

À la suite de la loi du 4 août 1962, instaurant les secteurs sauvegardés dont le caractère historique justifie « la conservation, la restauration et la mise en valeur », ce quartier bénéficie depuis 1964 d’un dispositif de protection patrimoniale spécifique, à l’instar des centres historiques des villes comme Lyon, Chartres, Clermont-Ferrand ou Aix-en- Provence.

La sauvegarde du Marais a suscité d’exceptionnelles aventures humaines, individuelles et collectives. À travers les récits où se croisent des décideurs, des aménageurs, des élus, des architectes, des urbanistes et des résidents émergent de multiples visions et controverses.

Quels ont été les défis, les succès et les revers de la valorisation ? Que révèlent-ils ? Vers quel renouveau tendent-ils ? La rétrospective évoque les questions patrimoniales et esthétiques que pose ce plan de sauvegarde mais aussi ses dimensions sociologiques, économiques et humaines. Riche de plus 300 œuvres, elle met en perspective 50 ans de l’évolution d’un quartier exceptionnel par l’abondance de ses hôtels particuliers

érigés aux XVIe, XVII

e et XVIII

e siècles qui côtoient des architectures

contemporaines et au cœur duquel se trouve le musée Carnavalet.

Témoignages, photographies, films, cartes, maquettes, instruments, échantillons, affiches, dessins in situ, prélèvements, éléments d’architecture rendent compte de ce quartier vivant en évolution permanente. Le visiteur est invité à une véritable « immersion sensorielle » à travers les couleurs et les matériaux du Marais.

À travers de nombreuses pièces inédites issues d’hôtels particuliers, de maisons de rapport ou de lieux de culte sauvés de la destruction, et provenant aussi de fouilles archéologiques récentes, un Marais secret s’offre au public qui redécouvre ainsi le savoir- faire, l’art de vivre et l’esthétique si spécifiques à ce quartier. Des prêts exceptionnels issus de monuments fermés au public comme l’hôtel Amelot de Bisseuil, actuellement en restauration, sont présentés pour la première fois.

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16 - Cour d’honneur de l’hôtel Carnavalet - 2015

© Jean-Baptiste Woloch / Musée Carnavalet



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THE EXHIBITION’S MAIN THEMES

Far from being frozen in time, the Marais protected district has changed considerably since the passage of the Malraux Law. This multidisciplinary exhibition reports on 50 years of protection through innovative displays and pieces rarely shown to the public, emphasising a sensitive and poetic relationship with the area.

An exhibition prefiguring the Carnavalet Museum’s renovation

On the eve of a major renovation to be completed in 2019, the Carnavalet Museum is rethinking the way it presents its collections and performs mediation in order to become the essential benchmark in understanding Paris, its urban spaces, its residents, its memories, and its history. The exhibition “The Marais Heritage: 50 years of protection since the Malraux Law” is the occasion to try out these new keys to understanding an area. This new approach offers a first look at one of the museum’s introductory rooms after its renovation.

1 - Rue des Rosiers. Gouache. © Delphine Priollaud-Stoclet / Urban Sketchers Paris

The Marais residents under the spotlight

The visitor relives the Marais’ past through its residents’ viewpoints and accounts: an interactive digital display plunges visitors into two of the district’s most emblematic streets: the rue des Rosiers in the 4

th arrondissement and the rue du Temple in the 3

rd

arrondissement. A living portrait is sketched from accounts, photos, and press excerpts. This original exhibit was created especially for the exhibition in a partnership between the Carnavalet Museum - History of Paris and universities Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne and UPEC Val de Marne, Paris Urban Planning Institute. Students from Paris 8 Vincennes Saint Denis in the CréaTIC programme designed the graphic interface and developed the editorial line.



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A sensory approach to the Marais

The name “Marais”, as applied specifically to this district, seems to have emerged in the 1560’s. In the 17

th century it became the most

elegant and fashionable area in the capital. Magnificent fragments collected primarily from spaces closed to the public bring this elegance to life and make up a “library of materials” from the Marais with panelling, doors, joists, stairway banisters, sculptures, ceramics, buckles, coins, signs, documents, photographs, films, maps, models, etc.

To prolong this sensitive and poetic approach to the Marais, architect-colourist Guillaume de Monfreid has performed a study specifically designed for the exhibition with the Paris Council on Architecture, Urbanism, and the Environment (CAUE). He has made a

number of swatches of the Marais' colours.

12 - Paris Council on Architecture, Urbanism, and the Environment (CAUE), Stéphanie Cauchi & Guillaume de Monfreid, partner for the swatches of intrinsic colours: Colombo. Architectural colours of the Marais, a study of colours specially carried out for the exhibition © CAUE de Paris/Guillaume de Monfreid

The account of sociologist Edgar Morin, who lived at 35 rue des Blancs Manteaux in the early 1960s.

“The population is wonderfully cosmopolitan. There are Jews that have overflowed

from the rue des Rosiers to the east, Arabs who work at Les Halles and who live in the

same room; there is a Chinese colony that was deported during the First World War in

1914 from the French concession in Shanghai and whose descendants have dedicated

themselves to leather working.”

“The Marais...disappeared under a pile of shacks at the start of the 19th

century, made

from various materials brought there by one of the densest populations in Paris, and

covered with the filth caused by accelerated ageing.”



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The Malraux Law at the birth of protected sectors

The protection of the Marais was the first in an international movement in the 1960s to protect and promote historic districts. A protected sector is an urban area subject to specific regulations due to its “historical, aesthetic, or other character that warrants conserving, restoring, and promoting all or part of a group of real estate, developed or not” (Law of 4

th August

1962, known as the “Malraux Law”) There are 105 protected sectors in France today. André Malraux, then Minister for Cultural Affairs, planned to create 400. With its extraordinarily rich heritage, the Marais was the first sector in Paris to be declared a “protected sector” in December 1964. Its 126 hectares, about 1.2% of Paris’s area, partially cover the 3

rd and 4

th

arrondissements. In 2015 we celebrate the 50th

anniversary of its creation. Paris’s other protected sector is the eastern part of the 7

th arrondissement, as defined by a protection

and development plan (PSMV) established in 1972 and approved in 1991.

2013 Marais protection and development plan

Contemporary design in the heart of the Marais

Protection of heritage does not exclude contemporary architectural projects. On the contrary, even in a protected sector, the city is built over successive strata of time. Three architectural projects from the 2010s are presented at the start of the exhibition and bear witness to this harmonious dialogue between heritage and design:

14 - Existing building and the exhibition tower for the Galeries Lafayette Foundation, 1/100th Model of the project from the OMA agency © OMA

- Social housing built by Chartier-Corbasson architects at the corner of the rue de Turenne and rue Saint-Antoine (4th arrondissement) with its audacious, changing and mobile façade aligned with the street

- the renovation of the former Société des Cendres by the architect Pierre Audat at 39 rue

des Francs-Bourgeois (4th

arrondissement)

- the future Galeries Lafayette Foundation designed by Rem Koolhaas located between the rue du Plâtre and the rue Saint-Croix de la Bretonnerie (4

th

arrondissement), currently being finished



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Stakeholders in preserving the Marais

Since its creation on 16th April 1965, the Marais protected sector has been the object of an

active development policy that has brought together politicians, architects, urban planners, historians, archaeologists as well as donors and supporters of the Marais. The exhibition gives a voice to all of these passionate stakeholders.

Ministers: André Malraux and Pierre Sudreau

Starting in 1959, Minister for Cultural Affairs André Malraux and his colleague Pierre Sudreau, Minister for Construction, shared a desire to protect historical and aesthetic heritage. Together, they restored the façades of Paris’s monuments, which Malraux described in these terms:

“Paris in black was a sad city. It was the dirt that made it

sad. The black hid the shadows, and thus the decor.”

André Malreaux considered preservation as a productive resource for the imagination:

“In our civilisation, the future is not opposed to the past, it

resuscitates it.”

9 - Picture of André Malraux, Minister for Culture, in his office on the rue de Valois, Paris (1

st arr.). 1967.

Photograph, Jean Mounicq. Paris, Carnavalet Museum.

© Carnavalet Museum / Roger-Viollet

Succeeding in personifying the law voted on 4th August 1962 was a

stroke of genius and since then, the law has been known as the “Malraux Law”. Exceptionally, the law was first presented in the Senate in December 1961 by Pierre Sudreau. The law has two goals, he said, to “protect and to try to restore old or historic areas that are part of our country’s soul”.

On 23rd

July 1962, André Malraux gave a speech in the National Assembly of which this excerpt is particularly famous:

“Nations are no longer only sensitive to masterpieces; this has happened by the sole

presence of their past. Here is the decisive part: they have discovered that the spirit of

this past is not made of masterpieces alone, for in architecture, a lone masterpiece may

become a dead masterpiece”.

Hobbyists

In 1970, the FNAC held a competition for amateur photographers to immortalise Paris. Generously loaned by the City of Paris’s Library of History (BHVP), these images show everyday life in the Marais at the time: hobbyists go into courtyards and workshops, into construction sites and capture the transformations in the district.

Enthusiasts

Driven by their love of the neighbourhood, enthusiasts volunteer to help preserve it and meticulously survey its streets to capture specificities and treasures to draft a complete map. From 1962 to 1968, Michel Raude organised the Marais Festival. Inspired by the Avignon Festival, he organised live shows in the district’s private mansions to promote this heritage. Professional photographer Roland Liot also witnessed this period; he explored the Marais to capture the changes affecting it on film.



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Defenders

The Marais was also the scene of intense protest against the expulsion of its residents and the renovation of its historical heritage by the private sector. Founded in 1975, the inter-committee of the Marais keeps the public and media informed and actively contributes to changing architectural and urban planning philosophy.

An invitation for a tour

At the end of the exhibition, two tours through the museum and the district are proposed.

Within the Carnavalet Museum - History of Paris visitors discover many pieces and interior decorations from the Marais that could not be placed within the temporary exhibition rooms: the model of the decorative set from the Hôtel Colbert de Villacerf, dating from the 17

th century, evokes the many examples of

decoration from the 17th and 18

th centuries reassembled in the

Carnavalet Museum.

5 - Cabinet decor from the Hôtel Colbert de Villacerf

reassembled in the Carnavalet Museum © Daniel Lifermann / Carnavalet Museum / Roger-Viollet

At the end, the exhibition invites you to make your own tour of the district, following in the steps of artists Kojiro Agaki, Françoise Schein, Michel Longuet or the community of Urban Sketchers Paris, a network of artists who organised two “sketching marathons” (or SketchCrawls) especially for the exhibition in February and March 2015.

2 - Place des Vosges, SketchCrawl arcades 14

th February/8

th March 2015

© Marion Rivolier/ Urban Sketcher Paris

Spotlight on block 16, at the intersection of urban, architectural, political, and social history

This multidisciplinary exhibition places architectural questions in their political, historical and social context. The special case of block 16 is representative of these problems within the area. In 1921, seventeen blocks throughout Paris were declared “insalubrious” due to a higher-than-average death rate from tuberculosis. These blocks were to be torn down and rebuilt. The 16

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block, with an area of 14 hectares, was located in the south of the 4th arrondissement. It was

bordered to the west by the Saint-Gervais church, to the east by the rue de Foucry, to the north by the rue François Miron and to the south by the quai de l’Hôtel de Ville. Several development plans for this block came and went during the 1930’s. The modernist urban planning movement wanted to tear down the neighbourhood and build an administrative and cultural centre with a large green space. The Vichy regime’s administration (1940-1944) preferred a process of preservation and conservation. It favoured cleaning interior courtyards, furnishing green spaces, demolishing run-down buildings and rebuilding structures in the historical style. The layout of the roads was changed. These actions were a precursor to the methods used under the Malraux Law. Eviction of residents, mostly tenants, from the 350 buildings declared insalubrious in block 16 occurred during the persecution of Jews, particularly between 1941 and 1944. 20% of households that were evicted were Jewish.



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CULTURAL PROGRAMME

Exhibition guided tours

Tuesdays and Saturdays at 4pm. No booking required. Tickets: €6 (discounted price: €5)

Walking tour “The Marais, past and present”

Sundays of 22nd November 2015 and 21st February 2016 at 11am.

No booking required. Tickets: €9 (discounted price: €7)

Tours in French Sign Language

Saturdays of 5th December 2015 and 6th February 2016 at 11am.

No booking required. Discounted price per person: €5

Children’s workshops

Every 1st Saturday of the month at 10:30am.

Price per child: €7

Partner walking tours

The historic Marais: Tuesdays of 17th November, 8th December and Saturdays of 14th November, 5th

December 2015 at 2pm and the Tuesdays of 12th January, 2nd February and the Saturdays of 23rd January

and 13th February 2016 at 2pm, starting point at the Maison d’Ourscamp, 44 - 46 rue François Miron (4th

arrondissement). In partnership with the Paris Historique association.

The Jewish Marais: Tuesday 24th November 2015 and Saturday 16th January 2016 at 2pm, starting point at

and in partnership with the Jewish Art and History Museum.

The Marais, ghetto love?: Saturday 28th November 2015 and Tuesday 23rd February 2016 at 2pm, starting

point at the Carnavalet Museum. In partnership with Paris Gay Village.

Architectural Colours in the Marais: Tuesday 2nd February 2016 at 2pm, starting point at the Carnavalet

Museum. In partnership with the Paris CAUE.

Conferences. Bouvier Room. Free entry.

The Marais Heritage, introductory conference for the exhibition with Valérie Guillaume

Thursday 3rd December 2015 at 1pm.

Saving grand decors – The birth of period rooms at the Carnavalet Museum by Marie-Laure Deschamps

Thursday 14th January 2016 at 1pm

“Another Marais” gatherings. Bouvier Room. Free entry.

The Marais and gays: crazy reminder of a passionate relationship by Hervé Latapie

Tuesday 24th November 2015 at 1pm

The Marais in recent publications

Tuesday 8th December 2015 at 1pm.



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Architectural Colours in the Marais by Guillaume de Monfreid and Stéphanie Cauchi (Paris CAUE)

Tuesday 12th January 2016 at 1pm.

The Ignored Marais by the Inter-committee for the Marais

Tuesday 19th January 2016 at 1pm

Basement Marais by Catherine Brut

Tuesday 26th January 2016 at 1pm

The Marais in cinema: meeting with Cédric Klapisch

Tuesday 9th February 2016 at 8pm at Luminor Hôtel de Ville

The industrial Marais: history of the Société des Cendres by historian J-F Belhoste, G. Deze et M. Roucaut

Tuesday 16th February 2016 at 1pm

Concerts. Bouvier Room. Free entry.

Thursday 19th November 2015 at 1pm by students of the Pôle Supérieur de Paris Boulogne Billancourt.

Saturday 19th December 2015 at 2:30pm by the Ensemble VOIX ET VENTS and the NUDERA quartet.

Thursday 21st January 2016 at 1pm by students of the Paris Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional.

Thursday 18th February 2016 at 1pm by students of the Paris Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional.

Round table “Restore or reinvent the Marais?”. Bouvier Room. Free entry. Moderated by:

Stéphanie Boué from radio station Faubourg Simone

Saturday 6th February 2016 at 2pm.

Meeting of the International Friends of André Malraux. 3rd arrondissement city hall. Council

room. Free entry.

Vision and evolution of urban protection from Malraux to today

Friday 4th December 2015 at 2pm.

Paris in all letters festival. Bouvier Room. Free admission.

The writers’ Marais, in partnership with the Maison de la Poésie Sunday

15th November 2015 at 4pm.

Draw the Marais with Urban Sketchers Paris.

Length 2 hours 30 Minutes. Free admission. Drawing materials not supplied. Starting

point at the Carnavalet Museum, 16 rue des Francs Bourgeois.

Sunday 29th November 2015 and Saturday 13th February 2016 at 2pm

Detailed program on the website: www.carnavalet.paris.fr

GROUPS

Guided visits and workshops only on reservation

Information and bookings with the cultural action department:

Tel.: +33 (0)1 44 59 58 31/32/56 from Monday to Friday, 2pm to 5pm

Email: [email protected]





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EXHIBITION SHEET

CURATOR Valérie Guillaume, Director of the Carnavalet Museum – History of Paris

DESIGN/GRAPHICS

Exhibition design and Light design [MAW] Maffre Architectural Workshop, Philippe Maffre & Maeva Abdelhafid

Graphics, signage

CL DESIGN, Domitille Pouy & Varina Volk Léonovitch

Multimedia design

Moving Stars, Alexandre Dellacicco, Gaelle Veysset,

[MAW] www.mawarchitectes.com

PRODUCTION

Exhibition produced by Paris Musées

KEY FIGURES

The exhibition “The Marais heritage: 50 years of protection since the Malraux Law” presents 330 pieces on display and 3 exhibits and installations created especially for the exhibition.

- Photographs and albums: 102 - Architectural elements: 34 - Books: 34 - Drawings: 30 - Plans and Maps: 31 - Documents: 16 - Film excerpts: 19 (2 from foreign television) - Excavated objects: 15 - Posters: 12 - Models: 10 - Postcards: 7 - Signs: 6 - Cameras: 2 - Audio recordings: 3 - Video montages: 1 - Street signs: 2 - Paintings and works of fine art: 2 - Engravings: 1 - Medals: 1 - 3D models: 1

http://www.mawarchitectes.com/



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DIGITAL DISPLAYS

ABOUT THE INTERACTIVE DISPLAY: STREET BIOGRAPHIES

Originating from research work carried out by history students at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Institut d’Urbanisme de Paris (UPEC Val de Marne), the interactive display was designed by students in digital design and publishing at Paris VIII Saint-Denis university.

This research studied the social impact of the Malraux Law among different generations of residents and shopkeepers, highlighting the split that can exist between people who defend municipal and government preservation projects for the sector on the one hand and, on the other hand, people who have lived there longer, for many generations, and who feel that their neighbourhood has been taken from them. These were supplied as files containing archive images, recent photos, interview transcripts and audio recordings.

Presented on two touchscreens in the section “The 2013 Protection and Development Plan (PSMV) – Building the Marais”, the display presents part of this documentation as a fun and attractive paper play, where two of the Marais’s most iconic streets are shown: the rue des Rosiers and the rue du Temple.

Visitors stand facing the screen inclined at a 30° angle and equipped with two headsets. They explore the streets looking for points of interest indicated by coloured elements in

the decor. Then they listen to recorded accounts from residents and view related archive documents. When they go back to the overall view of the street, the changes referred to in the accounts are graphically revealed in a short animation (changes in shops, cobblestones replaced by concrete, etc.). Visitors are immersed in events directly or indirectly linked to the Malraux law that have marked the street and the people.

ABOUT THE 3D RECONSTRUCTION VIDEOS

Also in the first exhibition room, 3D model reconstructions of Paris are presented, produced by Iliade Production with funding from the Carnavalet Museum’s documentation budget. A montage of 3D excerpts is screened continuously. These excerpts show the Marais’ evolution, from the first architectural and urban developments until block 16.



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CATALOGUE

Le Marais en heritage(s) : 50 ans de sauvegarde, depuis la loi Malraux Format: 24 x 35 cm Number of pages: 160 pages Price (incl. VAT): €29 ISBN: 978-2-7596-0306-0 On sale: 11th November

Under the direction of Valérie Guillaume Collective work

The protection of the Marais undertaken by André Malraux in the early 1960s has

left a district with an exceptional power of attraction. Even though only around fifty thousand people live there, two hundred thousand work there every day and tens of

thousands of tourists visit each year. This publication explores the changes in a

unique heritage site. It invites you to explore the streets, admire the buildings, appreciate the colours and meet the witnesses and actors, all in love with the Marais,

the historic heart of Paris.

Paris Musées has also published an abridged version of the analysis report produced as part of the PSMV’s review: The Marais – City reading Format: 20.5 x 24 cm Number of pages: 176 pages Price (incl. VAT): €29 ISBN: 978-2-7596-0311-4 On sale: 25th November

Publication directed by the Urban Planning department of the City of Paris

The protection and development plans determine construction possibilities in the protected sectors of the Marais and the 7th arrondissement. This

very detailed analysis report, produced by Blanc-Duché, in charge of carrying out studies as part of the Marais PSMV review, makes an

assessment of the district today with results from the urban, architectural and social changes that have made it what it is. Rich and informative, it

also presents realities and myths that stem from the district’s past and present.

Paris Musées is a publisher of art books that publishes around thirty works each year – exhibition catalogues, collection guides, small newsletters – all illustrated books that live up to the richness of City of Paris museums and the diversity of temporary exhibitions. www.parismusees.paris.fr

http://www.parismusees.paris.fr/



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PRESS VISUALS

1 - Delphine Priollaud-Stoclet Rue des Rosiers. Gouache. SketchCrawl 14

th February/8

th March

2015 © Delphine Priollaud-Stoclet / Urban Sketchers Paris

2 - Marion Rivolier, Place des Vosges, arcades, SketchCrawl 14

th

February/8th March 2015

Watercolour. © Marion Rivolier Urban Sketchers Paris

3 - La Place des Vosges Photograph, Roland Liot, 20

th December 1975

© Roland Liot

4 - Roman Cieslewicz (1930-1996). Poster for the Marais Festival from 6

th June to 14

th July 1972, Silkscreen, 1972. Paris, Carnavalet

Museum. © Carnavalet Museum / Roger-Viollet © Roman Cieslewicz, Adagp, 2015

5 - Cabinet decor from the Hôtel Colbert de Villacerf, reinstalled in the Carnavalet Museum © Daniel Lifermann / Musée Carnavalet / Roger-Viollet

6 - Anonymous. Panel from the Hôtel d'Aumont. Sculpted oak and painted in white, added golden decor. 1774-1791. Paris, Carnavalet Museum. © Carnavalet Museum / Roger-Viollet

7 - Mascaron: male fauna head c. 1648-1650 Saint-Leu limestone 66 x 75 x 34, 5 cm, Paris, Association for the protection and development of historic Paris © Paris Musées / Lyliane Degrâces-Khoshpanjeh

8 - Saint Francis in a chariot of fire, stained glass window from Saint Gervais - Saint Protais church, c. 1540 Paris, Carnavalet Museum. © Carnavalet Museum / Roger-Viollet



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9 - Picture of André Malraux, Minister for Culture, in his office on the

rue de Valois, Paris (1st arr.). 1967.

Photograph, Jean Mounicq. Paris, Carnavalet Museum. © Carnavalet Museum / Roger-Viollet

10 - View of Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville in 1977 (former Place de Grève until 1803) © Rights reserved City of Paris, Urban Planning Department collection

11 – Aerial view of the pedestrianised Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville in 1983 © Rights reserved City of Paris, Urban Planning Department collection

12 - Paris Council on Architecture, Urbanism, and the Environment (CAUE), Stéphanie Cauchi & Guillaume de Monfreid Model of the colour study carried out for “Architectural colours of the Marais”, idea of colour and sky swatches, 2015 © CAUE de Paris/Guillaume de Monfreid

13 - “No to evictions in August, Solidarity with the Inter-committee of the Marais, 25 rue Saint Paul exhibition, film, office hours” Inter-committee of the Marais © Atelier F.A.P. (Fine Artists’ Front)

14 - Existing building and exhibition tower for the Galeries Lafayette Foundation 1/100th Model of the project from the OMA agency © OMA

15 - Françoise Schein, rue du Roi de Sicile, formerly 48 rue des droits de l’homme, 2014. Light installation. Paris, private collection. Courtesy V Contemporary Art Gallery www.5contemporary.com/ © Françoise Schein, ADAGP 2015.

16 - Restored main courtyard of the Carnavalet Museum, 2015 © Jean-Baptiste Woloch / Carnavalet Museum

http://www.5contemporary.com/



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SPONSORS

“The Marais heritage: 50 years of protection since the Malraux Law”

Carnavalet Museum, Paris

The Galeries Lafayette group, contributor to cultural industries for over 120 years, is proud to support the exhibition “The Marais heritage: 50 years of protection since the Malraux Law” at the Carnavalet Museum in Paris. In our work, our commitment to sponsorship and the passion and convictions of the shareholding family for over five generations, promoting our heritage and supporting creation are at the heart of the Galeries Lafayette group’s values. As an economic, historic and cultural reference through BHV MARAIS, the group contributes more than ever to this neighbourhood’s energy since the creation of the Lafayette Anticipation Foundation, rue du Plâtre.

Founded in 1856 by Xavier Ruel and acquired by the Galeries Lafayette group in 1991, the Bazar de l’Hôtel de Ville actively participates in promoting French, Parisian, and the Marais art of living. The famous dome constructed in 1913 by architect Auguste Roy decisively established this store’s place in the district. While remaining true to its heritage, the building has never stopped reinventing itself, as witnessed by its recent interior redesign. Continuing its dialogue with Paris City Hall, anchored more than ever in the present while staying true to its history, it was renamed BHV MARAIS, as if to better highlight its enduring link with this neighbourhood.

Created in 2013, the Galeries Lafayette Foundation will open its doors in 2017 at 9 rue du Plâtre, in an industrial building constructed at the end of the 19

th

century by architect Samuel Menjot de Dammartin for the BHV. Presented in the exhibition of the Carnavalet Museum, the model of this renovation, OMA’s first project in Paris and led by internationally renowned architect Rem Koolhaas, will attest to the consideration given to the relationship between “the old and the new, between the existing and the non-existent”. With over five storeys and a total surface of 2500 m

2, the Foundation will be a space for

creation, production and display dedicated to design in its most current forms: from fine arts to fashion, from design to performing arts. A living space of speech and ideas for all audiences, the Galeries Lafayette Foundation is already active through its preliminary programme, Lafayette Anticipation.

Rooted in these two ambitions, the Galeries Lafayette group is proud to partner with the Carnavalet Museum in promoting this district’s history and future to a wide audience.

About the Galeries Lafayette group

A leader in city centre shopping and a specialist in fashion, the Galeries Lafayette Group is a private, family-owned, shopping-oriented company, the heir to 120 years of history built in retail and commerce. A firm supporter of design and a leading private employer in France with 15,000 employees, the group’s mission is to help spread the French art of living. With 3.8 billion euros in retail sales the group is known over the world for its iconic brands: Galeries Lafayette, BHV MARAIS, Royal Quartz, Louis Pion and Didier Guérin.

For more information: www.groupegalerieslafayette.fr

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ÉLOGIE, EXHIBITION PARTNER

“THE MARAIS AND IST

LEGACY”

Élogie, semi-public company of the City of Paris, builds, acquires, renovates and manages social

housing.

Founded in 1931, the real estate company has progressively acquired a portfolio of over 16,000

accommodation units (family apartments and rooms) located primarily in Paris, including 600 in the

historic heart of the Marais.

As the 3rd largest social housing provider in Paris, Élogie contributes to balancing social housing

throughout the city by developing its rental portfolio in the centre and the west of the capital. It is a

major player in the City’s social housing policies and participates fully in implementing the city’s

climate plan.

On the occasion of “The Marais Heritage: 50 years of protection since the Malraux Law”, whose

themes coincide with Élogie’s objectives, experience and values, the company wanted to partner with

the Carnavalet Museum.

With the support of the City of Paris, over the last few years Élogie has renovated several of the

Marais’s most iconic buildings (the latest is being completed on the rue Michel le Comte) to convert

them into quality social housing and improve the sociological diversity of the district while preserving

its historical integrity.

Élogie’s mission is to breathe new life into these historical buildings and offer residents a high level of

comfort.

More generally, Élogie dedicates a significant part of its investments to maintaining and developing

its real estate holdings. Élogie is committed to being a responsible company, and mobilises its 300

staff, including 168 building managers and employees, in applying sustainable development

principles with a high quality service.

As part of its support for the museum’s project, Élogie organises visits for its tenants in the 3rd and

4th arrondissements to help them better understand their environment and the history of the

buildings in which they live. This objective aligns with the Carnavalet Museum’s desire to touch new

and wider audiences and welcome visitors from socio-professional categories that are less likely to

visit Paris’s museums.

CONTACTS

Martine Oppermann: [email protected] / +33 (0)6 24 51 79 78

Adeline Solvar: [email protected] / +33 (0)6 60 08 26 52

Virginie Tenain: [email protected] / +33 (0)6 60 08 26 67

www.elogie.paris




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25 rue Michel le Comte - Paris 3e

29 social dwellings and 8 commercial properties (graphic design agency, film producer,

architect, leather goods wholesaler, etc.)

This restructuration project (whose second phase is currently being completed) includes

both the renovation of a 17th-century private mansion and construction of a new

building to replace a dilapidated property at the back of the lot. The project meets the

highest environmental standards.

The development includes an apartment reserved for senior housing. In addition to the

apartment being 100% handicap accessible, the tenant will benefit from a number of

services designed to make daily life easier: cleaning, nursing, basic upkeep, etc.

Delivery: November 2015

Architect: Atelier du Pont

Photo: F. Delangle

80 rue de Turenne - Paris 3e

9 social dwellings and 2 commercial properties Élogie has renovated a street-side building, part of a group of buildings

that include the 17th-century Voysin-de-Launay mansion and two town

houses.

Preservation and renovation work was carried out on both the structure

of the building as well as noticeable interior furnishings (wood floors,

chimneys, wall decorations, etc.). One of this programme’s apartments

is rented out to a flatshare of 4 students having requested social

housing. Each student has a furnished room in a 4-bedroom, 96 m2

apartment. The four separate, one-year rental contracts may be

renewed once during their studies. Average rent is €249.

Delivery: November 2014

Architect: Atelier Montchecourt et Co

Photo: R. Castan

7 rue du Cloître Saint-Merri - Paris 4e

7 social dwellings and 1 commercial property

Élogie participated in renovating a dilapidated 17th-century town house (of which

several architectural elements are on the historical monuments register) and a small

annex building. The renovation works preserved and developed many important

elements of the property and brought it into conformity with energy efficiency standards,

in accordance with the City of Paris’s Climate Plan. This renovation proves that an older

building can stand as a model of sustainable development for lower-income residents in

the heart of Paris.

Delivery: April 2013

Architect: François Brugel architecture.

Photo: M. Popa

Copyright-free photos available on request from Élogie

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THE CARNAVALET MUSEUM – HISTORY OF PARIS

The Carnavalet Museum is the largest history museum operated by the City of Paris. With a collection of over 600,000 pieces, the museum is one of the largest in France. Paintings, prints, photographs, drawings, medals, coins, furniture, woodwork, works of art and history are displayed in an exceptional historical setting.

Located in the Hôtels Carnavalet and Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau in the heart of the Marais, the museum is in one of the areas north of the Seine most frequented by tourists.

Carnavalet Museum gardens

© François Grunberg

The Carnavalet Museum also operates two other sites, the Archaeological Crypt in Notre-Dame parvis, on the Ile de la Cité, and the Paris Catacombs at Place Denfert-Rochereau south of the Seine.

Collections

The Carnavalet Museum boasts a very diverse collection of archaeological objects, views of Paris past, models of old monuments, signs, decorative elements from long-demolished buildings, historic scenes and accounts, portraits of illustrious Parisians, souvenirs of famous people or accounts of everyday life, including a unique set on the revolutionary period. In addition to the permanent collection, the museum also keeps a collection of graphic arts – including a wide range of drawings, engravings, photographs and posters – as well as a remarkable coin collection, both available to visit by appointment. Several temporary exhibition spaces are available to expand on the permanent collection.

The Carnavalet Museum owns over 612,000 pieces, including:

- 14,000 works of art and history - 3,000 sculptures - 3,000 paintings - 2,000 pieces of furniture and woodwork - 129,000 photographs - 45,000 coin pieces - 12,000 archaeological objects - 8,000 pieces of architectural heritage - 300 models

Renovation work

Between March 2014 and September 2015, the Carnavalet Museum’s main courtyard, a true gem of Renaissance architecture, was completely restored to its original splendour. These works are part of a complete renovation of the Carnavalet Museum, carried out by Paris Musées and to be completed in 2020. The works will make the site completely accessible to disabled visitors, restore all of the façades and roofs, bring technical installations to code, offer new services (shop, restaurant) and rethink visitors’ paths through the museum with innovative and attractive displays.


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PARIS MUSÉES, A PUBLICLY OWNED NETWORK OF THE CITY OF PARIS’S MUSEUMS

Brought together under the publicly owned institution Paris Musées, the fourteen museums of the City of Paris contain exceptionally diverse and quality collections. To open and share this incredible heritage, they offer a renewed admissions policy, adjusted prices for temporary collections, and pay special attention to audiences that are traditionally absent from cultural offers. The permanent collections and temporary exhibitions include a variety of cultural activities. Visitors can view the schedule of all the museums’ activities, find out about their collections and prepare for their visit. www.parismusees.paris.fr

Attendance figures confirm the museums’ success:

Attendance: 3,379,384 visitors in 2014, +11% over 2013 Temporary exhibitions: 1,858,747 visitors, including nearly one million at the City of Paris Fine Arts Museum (+90% over 2013) Permanent collections: 1,520,637 visitors

*Excluding places with paid temporary exhibitions within the permanent collections (Archaeological Crypt of Notre-Dame parvis, Catacombs) Collections from the Palais Galliera are only on display during temporary exhibitions.

THE PARIS MUSÉES CARD FOR UNLIMITED ACCESS

The Paris Musées card offers unlimited, no-queue access to temporary exhibitions in the City of Paris’s 14 museums* as well as savings on activities, shops, bookstores and café-restaurants, and subscription to the museums’ latest news. 9,000 people signed up for the card in 2014. All information is available at museum registers or online at: www.parismusees.paris.fr

* Except Archaeological Crypt in Notre-Dame parvis and Catacombs




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PRACTICAL INFORMATION

THE MARAIS AND ITS LEGACY:

50 YEARS OF PROTECTION SINCE THE MALRAUX LAW

CARNAVALET MUSEUM History of Paris

16, rue des Francs-Bourgeois 75003 Paris

Tel.: +33 (0)1 44 59 58 58 Fax: +33 (0)1 44 59 58 10

Open from Tuesday to Sunday,

From 10am to 6pm Last admission at 5pm

Website

www.carnavalet.paris.fr

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Individuals:

Regular tours of the exhibition: every Tuesday and Saturday at 4pm

Family workshops: every first Saturday of the month, at 10am

For children older than 10 and

families: the “young person’s visit” can be downloaded on the museum’s website

Groups:

Tours for all audiences and workshops for students Teacher training

Information and reservations:

Tel.: +33 (0)1 44 59 58 31 / 32 / 56 From Monday to Friday, 2pm to 5pm Email: [email protected]

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#museecarnavalet #MaraisHeritages

Marie-Alix de Lestang Receptions and partnerships

Tel.: +33 (0)1 44 59 58 35 Fax: +33 (0)1 44 59 58 10 Email: [email protected]

Carnavalet Museum – History of Paris

Valérie Guillaume Director

Constance Lombard

Société des Amis du musée

16, rue des Francs-Bourgeois 75003 Paris Tel.: +33 (0)1 42 72 22 62

Email: [email protected] Website: www.amisdecarnavalet.com

Director of communicationpress and multimedia

[email protected] Tel.: +33 (0)1 44 59 58 38

André Arden

Catalogue

Le Marais en héritage(s)

50 ans de sauvegarde, depuis la loi Malraux ISBN: 978-2-7596-0306-0 Price: €25

Press Officer

Email: [email protected] Tel.: +33 (0)1 44 59 58 76 Museum bookstore

23, rue de Sévigné – 75003 Paris

Open during museum hours Closes at 6 pm Tel.: +33 (0)1 42 78 29 09

Exhibition prices

For information call: + 33 (0)1 44 59 58 58 Full price: €9

Reduced price: €6 Free for children under 18 (included)

Video guide for adults: in French and English, €5

Paris Musées Card

Individuals: €40 Duo Card (valid for cardholder + 1 guest): €60 Young person’s card (under 26): €20






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