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It is one of the flagship projects of the Hauts-de-Seine department and, according to initial findings, the construction site behind the closure of the A13. Since April 19, the major motorway to the west of Paris has been closed due to cracks noted in the roadway, caused by a movement of land at the Saint-Cloud hill. Below, the Musée du Grand Siècle project, launched before the covid pandemic, had entered a very active phase of work in recent months.
Originally conceived by the former president of the general council Patrick Devedjian and the collector, former president of the Louvre, Pierre Rosenberg, the idea of a museum dedicated to this central period of French history, from the birth of 'Henri IV on the death of Louis XIV, quite naturally found a base between the walls of an old barracks located between the Seine and the Domaine de Saint-Cloud.
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Commissioned by Louis XVIII, the barracks for the king's bodyguards were only delivered in 1827, under the reign of his brother Charles a century, until the German Occupation. The Sully barracks are then occupied by the General Directorate of Aviation, which has a front-row seat to see the progress of work on France's first motorway, launched in the 1930s but which was delayed by the world conflict. The Hauts-de-Seine general council finally acquired the buildings in 2016 for 11 million euros from the army which had deserted the premises for several years, leaving the whole place prey to vandalism.
For the Musée du Grand Siècle, the cost of the work and development of the site and its surroundings is estimated at 100 million euros. Following the death of Patrick Devedjian, killed by covid in 2020, Georges Siffredi, new president of the department, took over the project. In 2022, he designates the architect and engineer Rudy Ricciotti, author of the Mucem in Marseille or the new Fabric Museum project in Lyon, for its creation.
The project provides for the asbestos removal, complete rehabilitation and identical reconstruction of the interior of the main building, where a route will be offered combining paintings, sculptures, furniture, engravings, medals and art objects from the 17th century, sourced for a large part of the Rosenberg collection. At the rear of the building, a small pavilion known as the Officers' Pavilion, added in the 19th century but in the same style, will accommodate a research center, the library or even a drawing room. To this will be added a collectors' office, where private collections will be showcased.
The project also includes an underground parking lot, dug into the backyard, between the buildings and the retaining walls of the hill. About fifteen meters higher passes the A13 motorway, of which only a short portion of a few tens of meters is at ground level, between the Saint-Cloud tunnel, which pierces the hill, and the immense viaduct of the same name which spans the Seine towards Paris. According to information from Le Canard Enchainé published on Tuesday, the excavations carried out for the construction of this underground car park led to subsidence at the foot of the hill which would have moved several centimeters, weakening this section and the A13 which passes by there, forcing the closure of the oldest highway in France. Informed on April 19 of these ground movements, the prefecture would have ordered, again according to Le Canard, the filling of the parking lot to a height of four meters to stabilize the side of the hill. emergency measures which would not have made it possible to completely stop land movements.
The Musée du Grand Siècle, scheduled to open in 2026, will notably house the collection of Pierre Rosenberg, donated to the department, which includes 680 paintings, 3,500 drawings from the 16th to the 20th century, a large set of Murano glass animals and the academician's very rich library. Collection estimated at 30 million euros. The museum project, entrusted to the academic Alexandre Gady, must follow those of the Middle Ages Museum of Cluny, in Paris, and the Renaissance Museum of Écouen and must examine all aspects of the Grand Century, including its dark side with, for example, the Code Noir which regulated slavery in the French colonies.
