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
Image: Musée d'arts de Nantes logo
Façade of the Musée d'Arts in Nantes.
Charlotte Corday (1860) by Paul Baudry
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont, known simply as Charlotte Corday, was a figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793.
The house in Normandy where Corday was born
Charlotte Corday à Caen en 1793 by Tony Robert-Fleury, Musée Bonnat-Helleu
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David (1793)