Guided tours of the Hotel de l'Industrie

Name: Guided tours of the Hotel de l'Industrie
Start: 2022-09-18T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale

Discover the history of the Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale and its headquarters, the Hôtel de l'Industrie

Sunday 18 September 2022, 14:00, 15:30Passed

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On registration within the limit of places available

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@Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale 2022

On the occasion of the Journées du Patrimoine 2020, the Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale is organizing a guided tour of the Hôtel de l'Industrie. In the footsteps of Jean-Antoine Chaptal, Louis Pasteur, Gustave Eiffel, Marie Curie, Peugeot, come and discover this place full of history. It was in one of the halls of the Hôtel de l'Industrie, for example, that the Lumière brothers made their first screening, the founding act of the film industry in 1895. It was also one of the places of political, social, cultural, or simply festive life, of the neighborhood and the left bank. Today he continues this tradition.

About the location

Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale

4 place Saint-Germain-des-Prés 75006 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

The Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale is an association founded in 1801 by a group of scholars, senior officials and entrepreneurs, with the support of the three consuls Bonaparte, Cambacérès and Lebrun, to revive France’s economy. Recognized as a public utility in 1824, it aims to support the industrial development of France, to foster technological innovation and to promote the men who are its promoters. In the 19th century, it made a direct contribution to France’s economic development in areas ranging from the first railway networks to the creation of the first infrastructure for energy production and distribution. Its action was decisive in the field of patents and standardization. It was the precursor of ANVAR, INPI, OSEO and the National Testing Laboratory. Its objectives today The Encouragement Society pursues its mission of accompanying major industrial, economic and social changes. Its activity is based on four missions: • Encourage the builders of the indust