Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne
Fine-arts museum in a former royal courthouse, with Chardin, Courbet and native painter Gamelin.
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This guide to the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne leaves the paintings aside and starts with a murder in the Montagne Noire in the spring of seventeen fifty-three. It follows the case down the mountain to the royal court that once sat in this very building, the Présidial, and to the judges and village rumour that shaped it. Best heard in the galleries, where the court's rooms still frame the art.
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