Fine Arts Museum of Nantes
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The Fine Arts Museum of Nantes, along with 14 other provincial museums, was created, by consular decree on 14 Fructidor in year IX. Today the museum is one of the largest museums in the region.
Musée d'Arts de Nantes
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Façade of the Musée d'Arts in Nantes.
Charlotte Corday (1860) by Paul Baudry
François Cacault
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François Cacault was a French diplomat of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods.
Fine Arts Museum of Nantes
…where it was an important place in the French public collections through the purchase by the city of Nantes in the collection of the brothers Pierre and François Cacault. The fund, with major works, were later supplemented by several other direct or law given gifts, and a purchasing policy supported by the friends of…
François Cacault; illustration from Le Magasin pittoresque
Portrait by Jean-François Sablet