Exhibition "Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and the Revolution. The royal family at the Tuileries (1789-1792)"

Name: Exhibition "Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and the Revolution. The royal family at the Tuileries (1789-1792)"
Start: 2023-09-16T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T19:30:00+02:00
Location: Archives nationales - site de Paris

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Free entry

Portrait de la reine Marie-Antoinette. Par Adolf Ulrich Wertmüller. Vers 1785-1788 Paris, collection particulière Reproduction : Archives nationales de France / DIS / Nicolas Cantin et Marc Paturange

Composed of a collection of more than one hundred and fifty original documents and objects, the exhibition traces the royal family’s stay in a palace that has disappeared and evokes the political or personal aspirations of the king and queen, while France adopts its first written constitution. The context of the recently deciphered passages of the secret correspondence between Marie-Antoinette and the Count of Fersen sheds additional light on a key episode in French history.

About the location

Archives nationales - site de Paris

60 rue des Francs-Bourgeois 75003 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

Created at the time of the French Revolution, the National Archives collect, preserve and enhance the central archives of the State. Nearly 300 linear kilometres of archives, from the 7th century to the present day, are preserved. They are now located on three sites: Fontainebleau, Paris and Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, the latter being open to the public since January 2013\. The Pierrefitte-sur-Seine site, designed by architect Massimiliano Fuksas, is dedicated to the archives after the French Revolution; it houses nearly 180 linear kilometres of public and private archives accessible in the reading room.