Rich
of a long
political history, the Palais Bourbon opens his slides to the visitors
to reveal a hundred of his most invaluable treasures. Exposed in
the
superb Gallery of the Festivals, very close to the hemicycle, these
objects are as many testimonies of the curiosity of the men vis-a-vis
knowledge and progress. Five classifications representative of
the
spirit of the Lumieres are suggested: Theology, jurisprudence,
Sciences and Arts, Beautiful Letters, History Geography Travels. Among
the unavoidable stars, let us notice the Manuscript of the lawsuit of
Jeanne d' Arc, 120 pages written according to the trial of 1435, the
Manuscript of the Marseillaise by Rouget de l'Isle, the death mask of
Mirabeau, a Armillaire Sphere of XVème century which was used to
show
the positions of the stars in the system of Ptolémée, the
Nouvelle
Héloïse and the Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in
original
manuscripts, the Borbonicus Codex, rare handwritten Aztec of the end of
XVème century and of course the Description of Egypt by the
forwarding
of Bonaparte, 23 precious volumes reporting the pharaonic discovery of
the world by our Western explorers.
