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Reorganized from 1967 to 1970 by Louis Miquel, a pupil of Le
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The musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie de Besançon is home to one of the largest drawing cabinets of France thanks to its collection of over 5,500 works from
European schools dating from the end of the 15th century to the middle of the 20th century. Artists present in the collection include
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gave the museum his collection in 1894 (over 3000 drawings and 460 paintings of
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Three-horned bull called the "Bull of
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is the oldest public museum in France. It was set up in 1694, nearly a century before the
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