Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1913 — Detaille Home a Museum. [ARTICLE]

Detaille Home a Museum.

The will of Edouard Detallle contains a clause bequeathing his superb house on the Place Malesherbes, with all its art treasures, to the city of Paris for a municipal museum of mill, tary uniforms and arms. The artist also bequeathed $40,000 for the reconstruction of the house to make it suitable for a museum. M. Detaille’s collection of historic military costumes, says American Art News/covers a period from Louis XIII to the latest types adopted during the presidency of Fallleres. The serieq of Napoleonic uniforms and side arms la the best and richest In existence. The museum will be opened to the public in the spring.