The Bibliothèque nationale de France is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as Richelieu and François-Mitterrand. It is the national repository of all that is published in France. Some of its extensive collections, including books and manuscripts but also precious objects and artworks, are on display at the BnF Museum on the Richelieu site.
The Louvre Palace, often referred to simply as the Louvre, is an iconic French palace located on the Right Bank of the Seine in Paris, occupying a vast expanse of land between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois. Originally a defensive castle, it has served numerous government-related functions in the past, including intermittently as a royal residence between the 14th and 18th centuries. It is now mostly used by the Louvre Museum, which first opened there in 1793.
Jacques Doucet (1853–1929) was a French fashion designer and art collector. He is known for his elegant dresses, made with flimsy translucent materials in superimposing pastel colors.
The Escalier Daru, also referred to as Escalier de la Victoire de Samothrace, is one of the largest and most iconic interior spaces of the Louvre Palace in Paris, and of the Louvre Museum within it. Named after Pierre, Count Daru, a minister of Napoleon, and initially designed in the 1850s by Hector Lefuel as part of Napoleon III's Louvre expansion, it received its current Stripped Classicism appearance in the early 1930s. Since 1883, its focal point has been the Winged Victory of Samothrace, one of the highlights of the Louvre's collections.
Guillaume Bochetel, seigneur de Sassy, Brouillamenon, Laforest-Thaumyer was a statesman and diplomat of the French Renaissance during the reigns of François I and Henry II of France.
Léonce Bénédite was a French art historian and curator. He was a co-founder of the Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français and was instrumental in establishing Orientalist art as a legitimate genre.
Paris, the capital of France, has many of the country's most important libraries. The Bibliothèque nationale de France operates public libraries in Paris, among them the François-Mitterrand, Richelieu, Louvois, Opéra, and Arsenal.
Jean Marot was a French architect and engraver of architectural views. Little has survived of his own architectural work, but his engravings of the works of others, primarily those published in the volumes referred to as the Petit Marot and the Grand Marot (1686), were highly esteemed by his contemporaries and remain, despite numerous inaccuracies and distortions, among the most important sources concerning architecture in France up to the early part of the reign of Louis XIV.
Remy Ladoré was a French draftsman, engraver and painter.
Madeleine Laurain-Portemer was a 20th-century French historian, specializing in the history of Mazarin and his time, married to Jean Portemer (1911-1998).
Louis-Denis Caillouette was a French sculptor. His pupils included the medallist Adrien Baudet
Jeanne Ismérie Robert was a French ancient historian, epigrapher, co-author and editor of many volumes on Greek epigraphy.
Hélène Adant (1903–1985), also known as Hélène Mossolova or Mossoloff, was a Russian-born French photographer. She started her career in France in the 1930s and worked with some of the leading French artists of her day.
Jean-Claude Lemagny was a French library curator and historian of photography; a specialist in contemporary photography, he contributed to the world of fine-art photography in several roles.
Yvette Alde was a French painter, lithographer, and Illustrator. She belongs to the School of Paris.
Estelle de Barescut was a French painter and lithographer. She exhibited her lithographs at the Salon de Paris in 1834 and 1835, and her paintings from 1842 to 1851.
Emmanuelle Polack is a French art historian and author who investigates provenance of works of art in the Louvre as director of research there.
Noël Parfait was a French writer, political activist and republican deputy.
Hilaire Noël Sébastien Clément, known as Clément-Janin (1862–1947) was a French writer and art critic, specializing in the modern history of printmaking.
The Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie is a building at 3 rue Michelet in Paris, built for the educational institution of the same name. It was initially designed in 1920 in a unique eclectic style by architect Paul Bigot, and completed in 1932. It has been dubbed "the most curious building in Paris". The building is currently occupied by the École d'Histoire de l’Art et d'Archéologie, a department of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
