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You could meet Victor Hugo, George Sand or Hector Berlioz ... the Paris of the romantic era is a little known period of history. It ran between 1815 and 1848 and saw three kings, two emperors and two revolutions succeed one another. But the real metamorphosis is cultural. The Musée du Petit-Palais in Paris, until September 22, offers to rediscover the capital at the time of literary circles and boulevard theaters.
A few meters away, you can see Charles X's cup of tea, the piano on which Chopin played, or Balzac's suspenders ... All these belong to the romantic period, a period of thirty-three years between 1815 and 1848, which transformed the French cultural landscape.
Cultural effervescence
The Petit-Palais museum traces, through a stroll through its emblematic neighborhoods, the cultural effervescence that reigned at the time in the French capital. At this time, Paris is a land of exile and meeting for many European artists such as the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt or Italian Rossini.
We cross the Tuileries, where the royal family had their apartments, the Louvre where Eugene Delacroix regularly exhibited his paintings, or the Latin Quarter where the Parisians went out to party.
Side dress is the birth of dandy style: top-hat and frock for men; and for women, gigantic hats, all more exuberant than each other. Nothing to do with conventional outfits imposed under Napoleon.
Live the day of a Parisian of the time
The visit ends as the day of a Parisian of the time, that is to say in one of the many theaters of the great boulevards, where the greatest stars of the moment met, like the star dancer Marie Taglioni or the mezzo-soprano Maria Malibran, a true diva of the 19th century.
"Romantic Paris" , an exhibition to discover until September 22, 2019 at the Petit Palais in Paris. An additional exhibition, this time focused on the literary salons of the same period, is organized in parallel to the Museum of Romantic Life, still in Paris, until September 15th.