Abstract
French art museums are born, against the european tradition of the so-called "enlightened despotism", in a revolutionary moment: they obey to democratic and republican inspirations. The jacobin-centralized control of their scientific and patriotic standards profoundly marked the general characteristics of their exhibitions during the first half of the nineteenth century. Their goals are of educating people, promoting patriotism, modernizing spirits, etc. but, simultaneously, they are accused of promoting iconoclasm and destructing the true culture of collectors of Ancien regime France.
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