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3 unusual facts about Musée Fragonard d'Alfort


Alfort

Musée Fragonard d'Alfort, museum of anatomical oddities located at within the École Nationale Vétérinaire

Honoré Fragonard

His pieces were often prepared for theatrical effect rather than scientific exhibition, as can be seen in the surviving pieces in the Musée Fragonard d'Alfort.

Musée Fragonard d'Alfort

The Musée Fragonard d'Alfort, often simply the Musée Fragonard, is a museum of anatomical oddities located within the École Nationale Vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort, 7 avenue du Général de Gaulle, in Maisons-Alfort, a suburb of Paris.


Alfort

Jardin botanique de l'École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort, botanical garden operated by the École Nationale Vétérinaire

École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort, school of veterinary medicine in Val-de-Marne, Île-de-France, France

Maisons-Alfort, commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France

Ashraf Rifi

He studied police work abroad during assignments with police forces in Ottawa, Canada; Maisons-Alfort, France; and Saudi Arabia.

Gare de Lyon rail accident

To make up the lost time, the station controller at Gare de Lyon, André Tollance, instructed Saulin to skip the next scheduled stop (and the last before the terminal), Maisons-Alfort.

Honoré Fragonard

In 1765 Louis XV initiated a veterinary school in Paris, first resident at rue Sainte Appoline but in 1766 moving to the suburb of Alfort (today the École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort in Maisons-Alfort).

University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

The University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (German: Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien - in short: VUW) was founded in 1767 as the world's third school for veterinary medicine (after Lyon and Alfort) by Milan's Ludovico Scotti, originally named k. k. Pferde-Curen- und Operationsschule (literally, "Imperial-Royal School for the Cure and Surgery of Horses").


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