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The Muse national du Moyen Age occupies a special position amongst French national museums. Not only is it famed for the quality and rarity of its collections, but it is also in itself a remarkable monument, located in the heart of the Quartier Latin and combining two separate buildings of quite different design and character. The older of these is the Gallo-Roman bath-house, dating from the first century AD, and the more recent is the late-Fifteenth Century mansion-house that was previously the Paris residence of the abbots of Cluny. The Museum was created in 1843 at the height of the Romantic period. The selections of works to be included in this book was made by the keepers of the Museum, and it proved to be a difficult one, given the hundreds of items - out of many thousands - that competed for inclusion. In the end, over 160 works were retained, and these are here considered as part of a general survey of the history of art through its thematic, artistic, and technical aspects.
