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Composed of twenty vehicles, as well as photographs, documents, preparatory drawings, models, this exhibition will present the motor vehicle in its closest form to the object of art: the Concept Car. Appeared in the 1910s, this type of vehicle is usually in the form of a single copy, made for aerodynamic study or style, or later commercial promotion.

If the first signs of this new craze appeared in the Second Empire, through Empress Eugénie's veneration of Marie-Antoinette, it was at the end of the century that fascination spread to the artistic and literary circles. Marcel Proust rediscovers this "Versailles, a great name that is rusty and soft, a royal cemetery of foliage, vast waters and marble". The most diverse painters are inspired by it, from the Russian Alexandre Benois to Georges Rouault, Gaston la Touche, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer and Henri Le Sidaner, but also photographers like Eugène Atget, Edward Steichen and Man Ray. Cinema also took up the subject from the very beginning.

Furniture and decorative arts display the great royal examples. In the same way, the Castle served as a model for that of Louis II of Bavaria, as well as for the residences of Boni de Castellane and Alva Vanderbilt, and up to the 1912 French liner known as "le Versailles des mers". Incredible holidays bring back to life