Abstract
ALL the French national museums are located in Paris with the exception of the Museum of National Antiquities, which is at some distance from Paris, in a small town of the banlieue. Although the Château de Saint Germain, which has been allotted to that interesting and really national collection, is a very picturesque monument, and the forest round a favourite pleasure-ground for Parisian families, the site allotted to the museum about ten years ago was not selected with the view of giving an additional attraction to the place. But the very idea of collecting relics of prehistoric ages in order to demonstrate that our ancestors lived in the age of the so-called diluvian animals was opposed by a formidable number of influential people.
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DE FONVIELLE, W. The Museum of National Antiquities of France . Nature 14, 312 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014312a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/014312a0