Chapelle des Petits-Augustins
- Address: 14 Rue Bonaparte
- Vicinity: Quai Malaquais
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1600/00/00 | The Couvent des Petits-Augustins is established at the beginning of the C17, by Queen Marguerite de Valois. The chapel is the only remaining building of the nunnery. | |||||
| 1789/11/02 | The National Constituent Assembly of France decrees that the properties of the Roman Catholic Church are now the possession of the nation which can be sold to raise money. | |||||
| 1791/00/00 | Alexandre Lenoir | Conservator | Mandated by the French National Constituent Assembly, Alexandre Lenoir stores his salvaged artifacts, including the remains of monarchs from Saint-Denis, in the former Couvent des Petits Augustins. | |||
| 1795/10/21 | Alexandre Lenoir | Conservator | Alexandre Lenoir opens the Augustinian convent of the Petits-Augustins to the public as the Musee des Monuments francais. Lenoir will work as the administrator for 30 years. | |||
| 1808/03/00 | Alexandre Lenoir | Conservator | Julien's marble "Gladiateur mourant" is placed in the Museum of French Monuments, probably in March 1808. Created in 1795, the 'Musee des Monuments francais' was located in the former convent of the Petits-Augustins, now part of the Beaux-Arts de Paris. | Dying Gladiator (Julien Louvre) | ||
| 1816/00/00 | The Chapelle des Petits-Augustins is given to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, heir to the Royal Academies. The chapel preserves casts of French and Italian works, from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, for the training of young artists. | |||||
| 1816/00/00 | The government closes Lenoir's museum and has many of the artifacts returned to churches and the royal remains to Saint-Denis. Others objects are moved to the Louvre, the Musee de l'Histoire de France in the Palace of Versailles and the Musee de Cluny. | |||||
| 1817/00/00 | After 1816, Pierre Julien's marble "Gladiateur mourant" stays at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. | Dying Gladiator (Julien Louvre) |
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| Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
| Sight Category | Building |
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