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"Paris, everyone knows, is home to some of the world's finest museums\u2014the Louvre, the Palais de Tokyo, the Mus\u00E9e Picasso Paris, and the Centre Georges Pompidou being just a few. But perhaps the City of Light's most intimate and haunting collection resides at the Mus\u00E9e Nissim de Camondo. Located in the 8th arrondissement, the museum was the brainchild of Count Mo\u00EFses de Camondo, who had amassed a magnificent trove of 18th-century French decorative arts, furniture, porcelain, and paintings.\n\nSephardic Jews who fled Spain in 1492 during the Inquisition, the Camondos were a banking family who established themselves in Venice and Constantinople. In the late 19th century they moved to Paris, where the Count grew up, and the family became renowned for their philanthropy and civic pride\u2014they were referred to as \"the Rothschilds of the East.\"\n\nUpon his death in 1935, Camondo bequeathed his residence and collection to the French government as a museum bearing the name of his son, who had been killed while fighting for the French in World War I. The only proviso was that every piece of furniture and art be left intact, which it remains to this day.\n\nClick to see my photos of the museum."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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