The visit to Musee Bernadotte in Pau was a complete surprise.
It’s is a proper historic house, the Maison Balagué owned by the Bernadotte family
and the home of Jean-Baptist’s Bernadotte (1763-1844) who, from being a Maréchal
in Napoleon’s army became the king of Sweden and Norway, starting a new dynasty
that has endured till today, with the actual king as his descent. The museum was
renovated last year and tells in brief the amazing story of the “citizen Bernadotte”
becoming a king in a remote country. Actual royal family of Sweden attended the
re-opening of the museum last September. That’s the amazing value of museums,
they treasure stories and our history.
