Places to see in ( Besancon - France ) Musee du Temps
Places to see in ( Besancon - France ) Musee du Temps
The Besançon Museum of Time is a museum of history and watchmaking in Besançon in the Doubs region of Burgundy-Franche-Comté , housed in one of the most beautiful palaces of the city, the Palais Granvelle. This palace was built from 1532 to 1540 inspired by the Italian Renaissance . It bears the name of Granvelle, illustrious family of the region. Indeed, the palace was built for Nicolas Perrenot, lord of Granvelle , who was Minister of Justice and senior advisor of Emperor Charles V . His son Antoine , born in 1517, also worked in the service of the emperor and his son, Philip II of Spain .
The Granvelle will gather in their bisontine residence important collections of art and books. These treasures will be inventoried at the xvii th century by the Abbé Boisot , which expresses the will to make them accessible to all. They will form the first public collection in France and will be at the origin of the Besançon Library and the Museum of Fine Arts , the oldest museum in France.
The palace will experience the splendor as long as it remains the property of the family. But following the extinction of the line in 1637 , he suffered slow degradation. After the French conquest of 1674 , the building will be rented and made available to the governors. Louis XIV will be welcomed there in 1683 , which earned him the title of Louvre during his stay. In 1712 , the palace becomes property of the city and knows an intense cultural activity. It hosts the Academy of Music, the Comedy Hall and the Academy of Sciences, Belles-Lettres and Arts.
At the end of the xviii th century, the watch industry in Switzerland is hit by unemployment and its watchmakers crossed even porous border to settle in Besançon . France encourages and ratifies this movement of immigration by a decree which, in 1793, allows the arrival from Locle (high place of the Swiss watch industry , close to the French border area of Morteau in Franche-Comté ) of Laurent Mégevand , a trader Swiss in watches that will rely at Besancon the ManufactureFrench Watchmaking in Besançon. Laurent Mégevand wants to compete with Swiss industry and develop his own ideas in the development of the watch industry (which the Swiss did not want) thanks to the support of prominent royalists members of the Constituent Assembly such as the Count Mirabeau , the Marquis Nicolas de Condorcet and Pierre-Joseph Briot (founder of the Jacobin Club of Besançon ). In particular, he develops the subcontracting concept by having the various components of the watch manufactured by various local workshops. It goes bankrupt in1798, but the watch industry of Besançon and Franche-Comté is solidly launched.
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