Chaptal decree
The stopped Chaptal is an administrative act devoted like founder of the museums of province French.
In 1801, the artistic goods, emanating from the nationalization of the goods of the Church, of the confiscation of those of the emigrants and the seizures carried out by the revolutionary armies, had reached a volume such mass that it had become obvious that they could not be preserved in their entirety at Paris.
In a letter of Paris on Thermidor 21 Year IX addressed “to the citizen Chaptal, Minister of Interior Department” Napoleon claims to him, inter alia decrees intended to on sale put the buildings of the National library to provide for the expenses of the transport of the National library at the Louvre and the transfer of the housing of all the artists residing there, with the Sorbonne: “ a third decree to name a charged commission to choose the statues and tables intended for the gallery of Paris, and those which would be sent for the galleries of Lyon, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Geneva, Nantes, Lille, Brussels, Strasbourg, Nancy, Dijon, Toulouse. ”
The 14 fructidor year IX, the universal Monitor publishes the adoption establishing the commission which was to constitute the collections intended to be distributed between the above-named cities, and to which were added Caen, Rouen, Rennes and Mainz.
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