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    state. The building was opened as a museum in 1843, with Sommerard's son Edmond Du Sommerard serving as its first director. The buildings were restored...
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    Mécènat du cardinal Jean de Lorraine, pp. 11–36. Alexandre Du Sommerard; Edmond Du Sommerard (1838). Les arts au moyen âge: en ce qui concerne principalement...
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    His patrons included the Duchesse de Berry, Charles X, and Alexandre du Sommerard. He was also a teacher; in his twenties he established his own atelier...
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    Saint Francis, translated by Peter A. Bien, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962; published in the United Kingdom as God's Pauper: Saint Francis of Assisi...
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    antiquarian Alexandre du Sommerard, whose collection of medieval art and artifacts would become the Musée de Cluny. Du Sommerard included lithographs of...
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    were originally acquired by the French state in 1843 from Alexandre Du Sommerard (1779–1842), Counselor and Master of the Cour-des Comptes, who assembled...
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    new Musée des Thermes et de l'Hotel de Cluny, created by Alexandre du Sommerard. A pioneer of the romantic museum design: a collection not only made up...
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    nationalism, and communism. In February 1927, in a hotel on the Rue du Sommerard in Paris, France, a small group of seven military and civilian students...
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