Chaptal edict
The Chaptal Decree was an administrative act that led to the creation of French museums outside Paris . During the French Revolution church property and property of emigrated noble families were confiscated. In 1801 it became apparent that the cultural assets were too extensive to be kept and exhibited in Paris alone.
Napoleon Bonaparte , then First Consul, asked Interior Minister Jean-Antoine Chaptal in a letter dated August 9, 1801 (21st Thermidor of the year IX), among other things, to sell the buildings of the National Library in order to cover the transport costs of the Bibliothèque nationale de France to come to the Louvre and to transfer the apartments of all the artists living in the Sorbonne .
Un troisième arrêté pour nommer une commission chargée de choisir les statues et tableaux destinés à la galerie de Paris, et ceux qui seraient envoyés pour les galeries de Lyon , Marseille , Bordeaux , Genève , Nantes , Lille , Bruxelles , Strasbourg , Nancy , Dijon , Toulouse .
A third decree for the nomination of a commission charged with determining those sculptures and collections of paintings intended for the Paris Gallery and those for the Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Geneva, Nantes, Lille and Brussels galleries , Strasbourg, Nancy, Dijon and Toulouse would be sent.
On September 1, 1803 (then 14 fructidor of the year XI) the newspaper Le Moniteur universel published the founding decree for the committee that was to carry out the compilations for the cities mentioned above, which also included Caen , Rouen , Rennes and Mainz . This is how the Mainz State Museum was created in Mainz .
literature
- Sigrun Paas, Sabine Mertens: Looted art under Napoleon. The French donation to Mainz in 1803 . Verlag Philipp von Zabern 2003, ISBN 3-8053-2950-4 .
- Heidrun Thate: Baptized with Moselle water - The birth of the Mainz picture gallery . (Master's thesis on the founding history of the Mainz State Museum).
Remarks
- ↑ Christoph Roolf (PDF; 447 kB): The research of the art historian Ernst Steinmann on the Napoleonic art theft between cultural historiography, foreign propaganda and cultural property theft in the First World War , p. 455
- ^ From 1798 to 1813 chef-lieu of the Léman department .
- ^ From 1795 to 1814 chef-lieu of the Dyle department .
- ↑ at that time as Mayence from 1798 to 1814 chef-lieu of the Département du Mont-Tonnerre .
- ↑ Homepage ( Memento of February 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) of the Direction des musées de France (DMF)