The pilgrim is warned before entering: his visit promises to be “historic”.
Behind the solid wood door of 1, place de Valois, in Paris, (historical) portraits of Léon Gambetta, Georges Clemenceau and Pierre Mendès France were hung along the stairs.
A little further, in black and white, Jean Zay overlooks the (historic) office of the owner.
Near the window, it is a (historical) bronze by Édouard Herriot, eyebrows in circumflex accent, which measures the passer-by.
So goes the life of a visitor to the headquarters of the Radical Party: surrounded by all Republican antiquities.
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For its 120 years, the oldest party in France has gathered its finest archives.
He even offered himself some work, a way to refresh its 400 m2 occupied in the heart of Paris for almost as many years.
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, laughs its president, Laurent Hénart, great organizer of the anniversary.
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