Guided tours: discover La Maison des métallos

Name: Guided tours: discover La Maison des métallos
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Maison des Métallos

Discover, during a visit, the secrets and metamorphoses of the House of Metallos, whose emblematic facade is classified in the additional inventory of Historical Monuments.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free, upon reservation (subject to availability)

Registration

reservation@maisondesmetallos.paris 01 47 00 25 20

Discover the House of Steelworkers

First a musical instrument manufacturer in the 19th century, then a centre of trade unionism and finally a public cultural establishment, the Maison des Métallos has undergone many metamorphoses and is home to an exciting history. During a visit, members of the USW team tell you what lies behind this emblematic façade, listed in the additional inventory of historic monuments.
A video, taking over a short lecture by archivist Emeric Tellier, will immerse us in the history of the cultural practices of the members of the CGT Metallurgy, supporting images.

About the location

Maison des Métallos

94 rue Jean-Pierre-Timbaud 75011 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

In 1881, at 94 rue d'Angoulême (now rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud), the Maison Couesnon was founded. Manufacture of copper musical instruments, world renowned for the quality of its instruments, Couesnon is the first manufacturer of musical instruments to have introduced the steam engine in its industries. Following the economic crisis of 1929, the company, which sells a lot of instruments to American jazzmen, had to reduce the sail to finally give up the buildings, in 1936\. That same year, with the Popular Front, the workforce of the Métallurgie de la Seine went from 10,000 to 250,000 unionized workers. The money from the contributions is invested in real estate, including 94 rue d'Angoulême in order to have large enough premises to develop activities tenfold compared to the tens of thousands of new members. The House of Metallurgists is inaugurated on May 2, 1937 and becomes a high place of trade unionism, managed by the Union Fraternelle des Métallurgistes, a branch of the CGT dedicated