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8 unusual facts about Musée d’Orsay


Barry Bergdoll

As a curator, Bergdoll has participated in several major architectural exhibitions, including "Mies in Berlin", shown in New York, Barcelona, and Berlin in 2001-3; "Le Panthéon: Symbole des Révolutions" shown in Montreal and Paris in 1989, and "Les Vaudoyers: une dynastie d'architectes" at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris in 1992.

Emmanuel Jacquin de Margerie

He was a director in musées de France, and helped in the creation of the Musée d'Orsay.

Françoise Cachin

In 1978 Cachin joined the planning team for the new Musée d'Orsay.

Guillaume Tronchet

After having rejected a project in the Anglo-Norman style by the architect René Sergent, then a first project in a medieval style (drawings in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay), Halphen decided on the second design, by Guillaume Tronchet : a château in the Louis XVI style celebrating hunting on the exterior and music in the interior.

Louis Majorelle

Majorelle's work, particularly the mahogany desk from the Musée d'Orsay, is featured prominently in the 2008 French Film L'heure d'été, released in the US as Summer Hours in 2009.

Maxwell Armfield

He exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1904, where his painting Faustine was bought by the French State and donated to the Musée du Luxembourg, and is now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Michel Laclotte

From 1972, he also championed the idea of turning Paris's gare d'Orsay into a museum, and became its head conservator on its opening in 1986.

Spring Drive

The internationally available Seiko models were officially launched at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris on September 14, and went on sale the following day.


Albert Fert

Currently, he is an emeritus professor at Université Paris-Sud in Orsay and scientific director of a joint laboratory ('Unité mixte de recherche') between the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (National Scientific Research Centre) and Thales Group.

Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens

Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (28 October 1845 – 2 January 1912) was the sixth child and fourth son of British novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine.

Aristide Briand

In the wake of the Ruhr Crisis, however, Briand's more conciliatory style became more acceptable, and he returned to the Quai d'Orsay in 1925.

Avrelija Cencič

In 2000 she made her PhD (with 1st class honours) from Biochemistry and Molecular biology of leukocytic and trophoblastic interferon gamma participating with University of Paris XI, Orsay, France and University of Ljubljana, Medical Faculty, Slovenia.

Boating on the River Epte

This series began with La Barque Rose (private collection) and also worthy of mention are canvases La Barque à Giverny (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) and En Barque (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo).

Bruce Gilbert

2006 saw him contribute to Susan Stenger’s Soundtrack for an Exhibition within the eponymous project curated by Mathieu Coupland that brought together artists from the realms of music, fine art, and film at the Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon.

Carol Weld

At the Gare d'Orsay the deluxe afternoon train had departed with a tin-whistle toot but no sign of royalty or a Baltimore woman.

Charles Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington

They met Count D'Orsay (who had first become an intimate of Lady Blessington in London in 1821) in Avignon on 20 November 1822, before settling at Genoa for four months from 31 March 1823.

Constantino Tsallis

In 1974, he received a Doctorat d'Etat et Sciences Physiques degree from the University of Paris-Orsay.

Édouard Detaille

The painting, which is located at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, also appears in Paintings in Proust by Eric Karpeles, published by Thames & Hudson.

Elephant clock

Another working reproduction can be seen outside the Musée d'Horlogerie du Locle, Château des Monts, in Le Locle, Switzerland.

Fifi D'Orsay

While working in the show, she became involved with Ed Gallagher, a veteran actor who joined her in putting together a vaudeville act.

Frédéric Joliot-Curie

Frédéric Joliot-Curie devoted the last years of his life to the creation of a centre for nuclear physics at Orsay, where his children were educated.

Hannah Franklin

Her work is found in numerous public and private collections including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Canada Council Art Bank, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Hélie de Noailles

The 1981 general election returned him to the Quay d'Orsay, where de Noailles became the second adviser of the French Embassy to the United States (1982–1986).

Henry Baillie

Baillie was a friend of Benjamin Disraeli, and in 1835 was actually called upon by Disraeli to serve as his second (after d'Orsay declined), when it appeared that Disraeli and Morgan O'Connell, the son of Daniel O'Connell, were going to fight a duel, which apparently did not actually occur.

Janet Biggs

Biggs' video work has been recently presented at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), Glaskasten Marl Sculpture Museum (Marl, Germany), the Mint Museum (Charlotte NC), the Gibbes Museum of Art (Charlotte, NC), the McNay Museum (San Antonio, Texas), the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY), Videonale 13 (Bonn, Germany) and tbe Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Jean Mistler

In 1925 he was accepted into the Quai d'Orsay (Service des Oeuvres), where he succeeded Paul Morand.

Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond

After a doctorate in Theoretical Physics at the université d’Orsay in 1965, he was successively in charge of research at CNRS, lecturer at the université de Nice, a professor at the Paris Diderot University, and at Nice, where he taught in the departments of physics, philosophy and communication.

Laboratoire d'informatique pour la mécanique et les sciences de l'ingénieur

The laboratory occupies three buildings of the University of Paris-Sud campus in Orsay (buildings 502bis, 508 and 512).

Laurent C. Siebenmann

Laurent Carl Siebenmann (the first name is sometimes spelled Laurence or Larry) (born in 1939 in Toronto) is a Canadian mathematician based at the Université de Paris-Sud at Orsay, France.

Lee Ufan

Major exhibitions of Lee's painting and sculpture were later held at the Yokohama Museum of Art in 2005 and the Musée d'art Moderne Saint-Etienne in France in December 2005.

Mademoiselle Fifi

Fifi D'Orsay (1904–1983), Canadian-American actress billed as "Mademoiselle Fifi"

Matthias Grünewald

Only religious works are included in his small surviving corpus, the most famous being the Isenheim Altarpiece, completed 1515, now in the Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar.

Modesto Montoya

As guest scientist at the Institut de Physique Nucléaire, Orsay, in the Bernard Borderie's group, he participated in research on deeply inelastic collisions.

Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne

The Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, nicknamed MAC/VAL, is a museum of contemporary art located in the Place de la Libération in Vitry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, a suburb of Paris, France.

Musée d'Art et d'Histoire

Recommended access is underground Metro station Saint-Denis Porte de Paris, on Line 13, located about 100 meters south of the museum.

Musée d'Art Juif

The nearest Paris Métro station is Lamarck – Caulaincourt on Line 12.

Musée d'Art Moderne de Céret

Then, Soutine made frequent trips between Céret and Cagnes-sur-Mer until 1922.

Musée d'art sacré de Dijon

The Musée d'art sacré de Dijon is a municipal museum of Catholic Burgundian sacred art inaugurated in 1980 by Canon Jean Marilier in the Église Sainte-Anne of Dijon.

Musée d'Horlogerie du Locle

The museum has an excellent horological library, incorporating the research archives of the Swiss horological scholar and historian Alfred Chapuis, and the former library of the French horological author Tardy.

Pierre Gaspard Marie Grimod d'Orsay

Pierre Gaspard Marie Grimod d'Orsay (14 December 1748 – 3 January 1809, Vienna), comte d'Orsay, was a collector of sculptures, paintings and drawings (which he left to the Louvre).

Pierre Grimod du Fort

On 8 July 1741 he bought the seigneurie d'Orsay (fiefdom of Orsay), in the valley of Chevreuse, which his son had made into a countship on his majority, becoming Comte d'Orsay.

Roland Dumas

Nevertheless, he returned to the Quai d'Orsay after the re-election of Mitterrand in May 1988, until the PS defeat in the March 1993 legislative elections.

SNCF BB 1280

The SBCF BB 1280 class were a class of 600 V DC 4 axle Bo'Bo' electric locomotives, formerly Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans machines (originally PO E.1 to E.13), initially built for an underground section of line connecting the Gare d'Austerlitz to the Quai d'Orsay in inner Paris.

Thanassis Stephopoulos

The resulting sensory perception in this first period of his work is the series of Nature morte, which were exposed for the first time in France at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, in Salon d'Automne at Grand Palais, at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen and elsewhere.

The Card Players

The Orsay painting was described by art historian Meyer Schapiro as "the most monumental and also the most refined" of the versions, with the shapes being simpler but more varied in their relationships.

Thomas Scheibitz

Solo shows include the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1999), Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco (2001), Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig (2001), the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2001), Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2004), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2007), Camden Arts Centre, London (2008), and Musée d' Art Moderne, Luxembourg (2008).

Tom Lubensky

He was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Paris in Orsay (1969–70) and a postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University (1970–71).

Treaty of Versailles

Negotiations between the Allied powers started on 18 January in the Salle de l'Horloge at the French Foreign Ministry, on the Quai d'Orsay in Paris.

Westinghouse Electric Company

The company Westinghouse Electrique France is now located in Orsay and Marseille.


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