Agenda

For the European Heritage Days, the Centre d’analyse stratégique is showing two new exhibitions on the works of Jean Monnet and Ernest Sanson. They will be accompanied by activities with a detective theme for children.

European Heritage Days 2012

Visit the Hotel de Vogüé

Exhibition - Jean Monnet, Ernest Sanson: Two architects

Opening Hours
Saturday: 14-18 - Sunday: 10-18

For the 29th edition of the European Heritage Days, the Centre d’analyse stratégique opens its doors with access to the memory of these two international architects.

Apart from visiting the mansion with its remarkable "neoclassical" style, visitors will have access to two exhibitions.

The first one is devoted to the first Commissaire au plan at the mansion from 1946 to 1952, Jean Monnet, the second takes us to the creations of a globe-trotting architect, Ernest Sanson.

Jean Monnet, his spirit and letters

Celebrated as one of the founding fathers of what became the European Union, Jean Monnet (1888-1979) was also the first Commissaire au plan from 1946 to 1952. Associated with the subsidies from the Marshall Plan, the Plan Monnet had a positive and significant effect on the "early recovery of the standard of living of the population."

The exhibition on the life and work of Jean Monnet will future a recreation of his office as the Commissaire au plan. Among some of the antique furniture presented, his personal and business letters will be shown for the first time.

Ernest Sanson, "The plans of the plan"

Ernest Sanson will be represented through the precision in his features in this exhibition dedicated to him. A nomadic and prolific architect, he was, among other things, the architect of several neoclassical mansions in America.

On this side of the ocean he was known for the "Pink Palace", which was erected at No. 50 on l’avenue Foch. It was described as a "huge marble vessel" by the academician Peter Nolhac.

Already in the Hôtel de Vogüé, a more modest mansion, the architect’s great preoccupation with stairs can be observed. More than a passageway, it carries elements of light and clarity to the building. At Centre d’analyse stratégique, you will not fail to observe that the exquisite staircase’s chaste sensuality brings fragments of light.    

The original plans of the two buildings and a model of the famous "pink palace", destroyed in 1969, will be available during the visit.  

Children can retrace the plans

Activities will be offered for children to enable them to reconstruct, step by step, the history of the CAS, the Hôtel de Vogüé and Jean Monnet.They can slip into the shoes of detectives and investigate at the heart of this mysterious mansion where the stories come together from the past, the present and the future. A give-away: a reward will be given to the best investigators.