The Musée de la chanson française is a museum in

La Planche La Planche (; br, Ar Plank) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. It is situated at 25 km (16 miles) south of Nantes. The 1973 Nantes mid-air collision took place above La Planche ...

, Loire-Atlantique,

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. It is dedicated to the

chanson A (, , french: chanson française, link=no, ; ) is generally any lyric-driven French song, though it most often refers to the secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval and Renaissance music. The genre had origins in the monophonic so ...

(songs in French style) and the musicians that created and sang them.

History

The museum was founded in 1995 with the help of the former maire of La Planche, Lucien Richard ( fr). On 24 June of that year it was inaugurated by Michel Boschat, the subprefect of Loire-Atlantique. In 1998 the name ''Musée de la chanson française'' was officially deposited at the National Institute of Industrial Property. The goal of the museum is to remember the artists that have established the heritage of the chanson.Danièle Clermontel and Jean-Claude Clermontel, Chronologie scientifique, technologique et économique de la France
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2009, The museum is located in an old

chapel A chapel is a Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several meanings. Firstly, smaller spaces inside a church that have their own altar are often called chapels; the Lady chapel is a common ty ...

of a retirement home in La Planche.L'Hebdo de Sèvre & Maine
Une immersion dans la chanson française
23 September 2014 The retirement home was closed in 1991. The idea to locate it in this chapel, came in 1992 at a meeting between Maurice Lecorps, the president of the

Musidora Jeanne Roques (23 February 1889 – 11 December 1957), known professionally as Musidora, was a French actress, film director, and writer. She is best known for her acting in silent films, and rose to public attention for roles in the Loui ...

Association, and the singer Serge Urso. Not far from the chapel, in Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu,L'Hebdo
A La Planche, que devient le musée de la chanson française?
10 August 2017 the Musidora Association annually organized the regional contest of French chansons.

Collection

The museum exhibits its large collection in the

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

of the chapel. A variety of pieces is exposed in display cabinets and on the walls. The museum shows a great number of records of wax and vinyl, golden and platinum records, photographs, posters, books, sculptures, and various audio players, including a

jukebox A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that will play a patron's selection from self-contained media. The classic jukebox has buttons, with letters and numbers on them, which are used to sele ...

and a

barrel organ A barrel organ (also called roller organ or crank organ) is a French mechanical musical instrument consisting of bellows and one or more ranks of pipes housed in a case, usually of wood, and often highly decorated. The basic principle is the sam ...

. The museum possesses of some rare material, like posters that have never been published and signed record covers. The oldest record in the museum dates from 1850.Luc Avrilleau
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History

Collection

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