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PALAIS DU TAU
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Museum
( 03 26 47 81 79;
www.palais-du-tau.fr
; 2 place du Cardinal Luçon; adult/under
26yr €7/free; 9.30am-12.30pm & 2-5.30pm, closed Mon)
This former archbishop's
residence, constructed in 1690, was where French princes stayed before their
coronations - and where they hosted sumptuous banquets afterwards. Now a mu-
seum, it displays truly exceptional statuary, liturgical objects and tapestries from the
cathedral, some in the impressive, Gothic Salle de Tau (Great Hall).
BASILIQUE ST-RÉMI
(place du Chanoine Ladame; 8am-nightfall, to 7pm summer)
This 121m-long
former Benedictine abbey church, a Unesco World Heritage Site, mixes
Romanesque elements from the mid-11th century (the worn but stunning nave and
transept) with early Gothic features from the latter half of the 12th century (the choir,
with a large triforium gallery and, way up top, tiny clerestory windows). The basilica
is situated about 1.5km south-southeast of the tourist office; take the Citadine 1 or 2
or bus A or F to the St-Rémi stop.
Basilica
MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS
Art Museum
(Museum of Fine Arts; 03 26 35 36 01; 8 rue Chanzy; 10am-noon & 2-6pm,
closed Tue)
This institution's rich collection, housed in an 18th-century abbey, boasts
one of only four versions of Jacques-Louis David's world-famous
Death of Marat
(yes, the bloody corpse in the bathtub), 27 works by Camille Corot (only the Louvre
has more), 13 portraits by German Renaissance painters Cranach the Elder and
the Younger, lots of Barbizon School landscapes, some art-nouveau creations by
Émile Gallé, and two works each by Monet, Gauguin and Pissarro.
MUSÉE DE LA REDDITION
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Museum
(Surrender Museum; 03 26 47 84 19; 12 rue Franklin Roosevelt; 10am-noon &
2-6pm Wed-Mon)
The original Allied battle maps are still affixed to the walls of US
General Dwight D Eisenhower's headquarters, where Nazi Germany, represented
by General Alfred Jodl, surrendered unconditionally at 2.41am on 7 May 1945.
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