Ambulatory reading in music of the archives of the Préventorium of Chavaniac-Lafayette

Name: Ambulatory reading in music of the archives of the Préventorium of Chavaniac-Lafayette
Start: 2022-09-17T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Château de Chavaniac-Lafayette

Let yourself be told the small stories of the Préventorium, sometimes amusing and always moving, through an ambulatory reading conducted by the Mobile Company.

Saturday 17 September 2022, 15:00Passed

Département de la Haute-Loire

The actors of the Mobile Company will make you discover, from documents from the archives 233 J, Archives du château de Chavaniac-Lafayette, the daily life of the little residents and staff of this social and medical institution for children of the twentieth century.
This animation is planned in connection with the temporary exhibition, Le Préventorium de Chavaniac-Lafayette. The Franco-American friendship to the aid of children, presented at the castle of Chavaniac-Lafayette, from July 4 to November 7, 2022. All public, from 12 years.

About the location

Château de Chavaniac-Lafayette

Le bourg, 43230 Chavaniac-Lafayette, Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Haute-Loire
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

This manorial house, old(former) strong house of the XIVth century, was rebuilt at the beginning of the XVIIIth century then restored by the marquess of Lafayette at the end of the XVIIIth century. The Memorial Lafayette procèdera association in its refitting(reorganisation) at the beginning of the XXth century. It is in these places that the marquess of Lafayette, heroin of both worlds, was born in 1757, and spent his childhood. The castle will be the ownership of an American association, Memorial Lafayette, from 1917 till 2008\. It is a departmental property since 2009\. The castle is at the heart of a 3 hectare park, done up by the founder of the association (John Moffat) by drawing inspiration from gardens of Albert Kahn. A muséographie redraws big(great) stages of the life of the general and his close friends, and allows to discover a rare collection of 14 panels(signs) of wallpaper, elements of decorations(sets) of the XVIIIth century. The castle of Chavaniac-Lafayette possesses the label "House of the Famous".