DGSE and the world of espionage

Name: DGSE and the world of espionage
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée de l'Armée

Activities, archives and presentation of the famous Enigma machine

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free entry

Partners of the Museum
For the DGSE (External Security Branch), the French Secret Service, 2022 is a very special year. It marks a double anniversary: the 80 years of the Central Bureau of Intelligence and Action (BCRA) created by General Charles de Gaulle in 1942 and the 40 years of the Directorate General of External Security (DGSE) created by decree on April 2, 1982. This year’s memorial is an opportunity to pay tribute, yesterday and today, to all those who, in the shadows, gave their lives in the service of France.
The proposed activities will be part of the exhibition co-organized with the Order of Liberation Museum entitled The General’s spies. These European Heritage Days under the sign of “Sustainable Heritage” will be an opportunity for DGSE to unveil operational objects related to the world of espionage, two models of Enigma machines and a selection of books illustrated with documents from its archives.
Location: Turenne room of the Musée de l'Armée

About the location

Musée de l'Armée

129 rue de Grenelle 75007 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

The Army Museum is a museum of military history, art and techniques, one of the largest in the world. The museum and the site of the Invalides in which it is inscribed bear witness to the military history of France. Through the military prism, the collections also bear witness to political, diplomatic and social history. The main courtyard, the churches, the prestigious collections of the Army Museum... So many spaces to discover to travel in history, from the Middle Ages to today, and meet the great men, but also the anonymous soldiers, who marked it. The museum occupies a large part of the Hôtel des Invalides built under Louis XIV under the responsibility of the Minister of War, the Marquis de Louvois, for"to receive and house all soldiers and officers who are both crippled, old and obsolete and to ensure there a sufficient fund for their subsistence". The buildings, whose construction began in 1671, on the plans of Liberal Bruant (1637-1697) welcome the first boarders in 1674\. The