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Renaissance Museum & feudal fief

Ferocity, grandeur & demise

The National Museum of the Renaissance is 19 kilometers north of Paris. We can reach it by train with a walk through woods, an unusual access that cuts us off from our world and prepares us to imagine another.

If we drive, however, we can also discover surprising stained-glass windows and continue to Saint-Denis.

     

     

    • A world that is gorgeous, rapacious and fierce 

     

    •Art-history excursion

    •Violence with brakes   •Theme-tour

    "Soldiers' pay" (detail, 16th-century tapestry at the museum)

       

       

      • Our visit:  two aspects of special interest...

       

       

      A dish presents a scene of martyrdom.

      •A fascination with war and violence, but built-in brakes limit devastation - please  CLICK
      Anne de Montmorency

      •The dramatic story of the fief's lords, touchstone to that of France - please CLICK

       

      •But do begin by the museum itself - please CLICK

       

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