Things to see and do Sèvres

In this gallery, which would rather resemble a gigantic artist's workshop, has already succeeded in the ideas and concepts, photographic views in 3 D, secret geometries, presentations on the uchronie and its encounter with the imaginary, heads in heads between sculptors and painters, or their sculptures and paintings, "poetic and unsettling", on land of light proposed by Sévrienne des Arts, like instantanés (drawings and engravings), or meetings with artists or events.

Facing Grande-Rue is the main entrance, preceded by a courtyard, closed by a high wrought iron grid. The building was built around 1753 according to the plans made by Lindet and Perronet on the location of the Ferme farm. In the Court of Honour, the flag of "Lully" is the only remnant of La Guyarde farm; Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer and chamber music superintendent of Louis XIV, would have lived there. In the east of the courtyard, the king's apartments occupied the angle of the building. In the same building is the Guard Hall, it opens on the entrance entrance, the large paved courtyard closed by the King's grid which gave on the road to Bellevue. A monumental fountain of stone orne that one. The Higher Standard School created to train female teachers: «Les Sévriennes», settled in the renovated buildings of the old factory in 1881. Marie Curie provided a physics course from 1900 to 1906. Today, and since 1945, the old factory houses the International Centre for Educational Studies, the main partner of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs for the French language.

Albert Glatigny, a young poet who died in Sèvres, gave his name to this staircase. Sebastian James, a famous internationally acclaimed artist, executed a fresco "The Court of Miracles". This staircase has 126 steps. During its descent, it allows to contemplate the left bank of the city. Vertigineux staircase that makes a curve to resume its race and to give on a paved courtyard, it is the law of beautiful walks dealing with houses of sévrien heritage. You can even contemplate fruit trees.

Painted wood sculptures, praise for bronze, work on the body. Wood, clay, plaster or paper, the sculptures are created from relationships between the different materials, couples sitting in bronze, wrestlers, hands, mate, mate, nurture… Children's games, the expectations of co-existence, move away, ignorent, or share. Math or triple paper mâché, a whole world signs its presence in the matter. A visit to and from the city.

At the request, the company can make visits "Les Cellars du Roi ex brasserie de la Meuse" network of underground galleries dug in limestone to store the wine and then bierre. It is a society that ensures the preservation of the archaeological and historical heritage of Sèvres and its surroundings. It conducts historical and archaeological research on Sèvres and its region, and contributes to the interest in local history and archaeology. In this place where very old relics await you, you can come in contact with the friends of the company and know the company's magazine, SAVARA, and acquire some numbers.

Many people miss it out when they make journey between Boulogne and Chaville. Formerly dedicated to St. John the Baptist, this church was later on devoted to St. Romain, patron of boatmen, from 1504. With more than a thousand years, it has inscriptions that date its first foundations as far back as 675. And over such a long period, of course, the history of the church is very hectic: it was destroyed by the Normans in the ninth century, rebuilt in the thirteenth century, then rebuilt in the sixteenth century, after the ravages of the Hundred Years War. The choir was added in the eighteenth century.

 In 1789, the upper part of the tower threatening to fall into ruin struck and replaced by a campanile. In 1901, the statue of St. Romain is added in front, and in 1937, the church is included in the supplementary inventory