Rheims and the Battles for its Possession

by Pneu Michelin

THE ENTRANCE TO THE COURTYARD OF THE OLD GRAND SÉMINAIRE (18th century)

Successively occupied since 1790 by the District Council, a free secondary school, and by the Russians in 1814-1815, the buildings were handed over to the Grand Séminaire in 1822. Since the separation of the Church and State in 1905, they have been fitted up as a Museum.

The Museum was struck at the beginning of the bombardment on September 4, 1914, several pictures in the Modern Gallery being destroyed. Later, it was again hit by shells, but the greater part of the collections had already been removed to a place of safety.

THE OLD GRAND SÉMINAIRE (MUSEUM)

THE BED IN WHICH NAPOLEON SLEPT IN 1814
(In ruined house at No. 18 Rue de Vesle.)

Continue along the Rue Chanzy, which skirts the Theatre (1873), of which only the walls remain. Take the Rue de Vesle (first street on the left. See Itinerary, p. [61]).

Among the ruins of this street, in the yard of No. 18 on the left, is a building of which only the ground-floor and front with large windows and spacious dormers remain.