About fifteen kilometers west of Paris, the castle of
Saint-Germain-en-Laye was first a royal residence, Louis VI the Gros, Saint-Louis
and Louis XIV. In 1862, Napoleon III decided to restore the castle and to
install the collections of national archeology. The museum, renovated by
Malraux, now houses national antiquities from the earliest settlements of
France until the year 1000. It retains the finest known collections of
prehistoric art engraved and carved, including the female head of Brassempouy
is one of the masterpieces
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