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THE PLEASURES AND DAYS (end)
“The pleasures and the days” exhibition continues on the staircase leading to the 2nd floor and concludes in the former servants’ quarters. The tour of the museum culminates with a screening of the “Lumière, the birth of cinema” documentary, which summarises how cinema was invented and re-enacts the showing in the Grand Café on 28th December 1895.
RAYMOND CHIRAT LIBRARY
Founded by the cinema historian that bears its name, the Raymond Chirat library is housed on the Villa’s highest floor in what was formerly Antoine Lumière’s painting workshop. Here students and researchers can consult more than 7,000 works, 30,000 press clippings, more than 500 thematic dossiers, and more than 600 magazine titles.
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