How did immigrants shape French society? This is essentially the question that the Museum of the History of Immigration, which reopened its doors on Tuesday in Paris after three years of closure, proposes to answer, completely redesigned around this “common history”. To explore the gradual arrival of immigration in all spheres of society, the permanent exhibition allows you to follow a chronological sequence, which is based on eleven major dates, ranging from 1685 to the present day.
And the museum’s communication campaign has not gone unnoticed, reports Le Figaro. A poster featuring King Louis XIV in coronation attire was distributed in Paris with the following caption: “It’s crazy, these foreigners who made the history of France. »
If Louis XIV, who reigned from 1643 to 1715, was the son of Anne of Austria, born in Spain, and the grandson of Margaret of Austria, Archduchess of Austria, the communication from the museum put “very uncomfortable” some netizens.
Because Louis XIV was born – in France – to a Spanish mother and an Austrian grandmother, would he be among “the foreigners who made the history of France”? Very uncomfortable, once again, with this campaign from the Museum of Immigration History @PPDoree. pic.twitter.com/b5GWXYE0nr