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Musée de l'Orangerie
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Musée de l'Orangerie, inaugurated in 1927, is an art gallery dedicated to impressionist and post-impressionist paintings. The museum houses the eight famous Water Lilies murals of Claude Monet and the art works of many other great names of that period, such as Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, Sisley and many others.
The Orangerie was built by Napoleon III in 1852, for the citrus trees of the Tuilleries, and designed by the archtitect Firmin Bourgeois (1786-1853).
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Musée de l'Orangerie
