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The
Musée national du Moyen Âge, formerly
Musée de Cluny (
French pronunciation: [myze də klyni]), officially known as the Musée national du Moyen Âge - Thermes et hôtel de
Cluny ("
National Museum of the
Middle Ages - Cluny thermal baths and mansion"), is a museum in
Paris, France. It is located in the
5th arrondissement at 6
Place Paul-Painlevé, south of the
Boulevard Saint-Germain, between the
Boulevard Saint-Michel and the
Rue Saint-Jacques.
The structure is perhaps the most outstanding example still extant of civic architecture in medieval
Paris. It was formerly the town house (hôtel) of the abbots of Cluny, started in 1334. The structure was rebuilt by
Jacques d'Amboise, abbot in commendam of Cluny 1485-1510; it combines
Gothic and
Renaissance elements. In 1843, it was made into a public museum, to hold relics of
France's Gothic past preserved in the building by
Alexandre du Sommerard.
Though it no longer possesses anything originally connected with the abbey of Cluny, the hôtel was at first part of a larger
Cluniac complex that also included a building (no longer standing) for a religious college in the Place de la
Sorbonne, just south of the present day
Hôtel de Cluny along Boulevard Saint-Michel. Although originally intended for the use of the Cluny abbots, the residence was taken over by Jacques d'Amboise,
Bishop of Clermont and
Abbot of Jumièges, and rebuilt to its present form in the period of 1485-1500. Occupants of the house over the years have included
Mary Tudor, the sister of
Henry VIII of England. She resided here in 1515 after the death of her husband
Louis XII, whose successor,
Francis I, kept her under surveillance, particularly to see if she was pregnant.[citation needed]
Seventeenth-century occupants included several papal nuncios, including
Mazarin.
In the 18th century, the tower of the Hôtel de Cluny was used as an observatory by the astronomer
Charles Messier who, in 1771, published his observations in the landmark
Messier catalog. In 1789, the hôtel was confiscated by the state, and for the next three decades served several functions. At one
point, it was owned by a physician who used the magnificent
Flamboyant chapel on the first floor as a dissection room.
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- published: 30 Nov 2014
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