Things to see and do Ile-De-France

This is Paris'oldest sales hotel! Created in the th century, he is still an important player in the art market in France, although Anglo-Saxon houses have nibble the land of the historic house. Few people dare venture and push the doors of this place, yet it is open to everyone and the spectacle inside is surprising! In the morning, the exhibition rooms welcome the studies of the auctioneers who present their objects and the afternoon, the show starts with sales! Depending on the character of the auctioneer, the batches presented and the buyers present can sometimes be electrical! Everyone can bid on an object by simply lifting the hand but attention! Raise your hand commits you to pay the object if the auction ends with the sum you propose! There's no way to cut it, cameras and red collar workers are sure to be badine with art here! In any case, very good business can be done according to the patterns and tastes of the day.

The tourist office is located in the hotel of Anne de Pisseleu, which was built in the early th century. What to put in the atmosphere, since Etampes and its region have been labelled Countries of Art of History. Here, several sculptures adorn one of its facades, while animal friezes run along the roof. The interior of the home has little to do with past good, but one can always be happy to imagine François I visiting his favorite, the duchess of Brands, while watching the exhibitions there. The Office organises guided tours of the city: Grand royal circuit, old pavés circuit, route of favorites, duchesses, churches circuit, circuit of mills and washing machines. It publishes very didactic booklets that allow to leave alone to discover the city. You can also download on its site of the audioguidés routes or borrow mp at the office for two walks: Through the water and downtown. In the programme also, hiking around the area, duly recorded on many documents.

The Military Costume Museum is located in the outbuildings of the splendid manor house of Sainte-Mesme, privately owned by the General and Countess Louis de Lambilly. The manor itself deserves a detour: with its octagonal tower, its vis staircase, its colombages, its French ceilings and its exterior decoration, it is one of the few models of civil architecture of the th century in Île-de-France. The museum's visit, the interior of which has been completely restored, allows to discover 90 nature-sized models with French, British, American and German military attire, thus presenting more than two centuries of history, from 1870 to the present. The collection was based on family memories and donations from visitors. We also discover ceramic objects, ex-voto of Gallo-Roman times (dedicated to the goddess of Silgina waters) and other prehistoric silex updated during sanitation, and then excavations on the site.

Welcome to this temple of the Far East. Most of the collections presented in this museum were brought back by Clémence d 'Ennery to the end of the nineteenth century, when fashion was «chinoiserie». This passion has accumulated treasures in his particular hotel, which was finally transformed into a permanent exhibition site in 1908. It is attached to the National Museum of Asian Arts Guimet.

The church Saint-Étienne, built in the seventeenth century, lies in the heart of the ancient medieval village. She has a Roman-inspired tympan. In the nineteenth century, it has been equipped with numerous paintings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a retable of the Virgin, a organ, currently in the process of restoration, and stained glass. The building, which was renovated until 2008, was inscribed in the inventory of Historic Monuments in 1929 and is particularly appreciated by the inhabitants. The church is an important liturgical center, a gathering point for many people before the proposed activities.

It is with emotion that passes the porch of this venerable school. Set in 1816 on its current site, the school stretches today in a group of buildings dating from xvii^e in xx^e centuries. It includes the former chapel of the convent of Small - Augustins and hotel of Chimay. This institution has a higher education of European fame (paintings, engravings, sculptures, visual arts...), but also of the exhibitions on various themes. They are organised in specific rooms and the chapel, which overlooks the courtyard of the Mulberry Tree; it is a former cloisters it convent that was rebuilt in a neo-renaissance style in antique xix^e century.

The Paris courthouse occupies four hectares on the island of the City. Every day, there are judges, prosecutors, lawyers, gendarmes, police officers and defendants, not forgetting the public attending the trials, as well as tourists wishing to visit Sainte-Chapelle and concierge. These last two sites are part of the remains of the Palais-Royal, which found itself there from the th to the th century. It is also because of the presence on the ground of the King that courts of justice have settled in an area which has subsequently ceased to be amended and matched: monumental grid of the Palace Boulevard (in the 36 th century), buildings side of Harlay and seat of the judicial police at, Quai des Goldsmiths (th). Nevertheless, these premises were too narrow and a major project was born: that of the Judicial City of Paris in the 17 th arrondissement. The work was completed in July 2017.