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GOMES JUNIOR, Guilherme Simões. Le musée français: guerras napoleônicas, coleções artísticas e o longínquo destino de um livro. An. mus. paul. [online]. 2007, vol.15, n.1, pp. 219-246. ISSN 0101-4714.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0101-47142007000100006.

This paper is about Le Musée Français [The French Museum], a book found in the collection of the library of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro. As a catalog of the Napoleon Museum, it bears witness to the reorganization of the arts in Europe as a result of the Napoleonic wars and the project of making Paris a true successor to Athens and Rome, as the center of a new republic of the arts. This process was the object of a dispute where Quatremère de Quincy and Joachim Lebreton played an important role. It was also one of the causes leading to the exile of a group of artists who then helped to lay the foundations for an academic environment in Rio de Janeiro.

Palabras llave : Quatremère de Quincy; Lebreton; Art collections; Napoleonic wars; Museums.