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Musée Fabre
The Musée Fabre is Montpellier's main art museum, opened to the public in 1828 following a donation by Baron François-Xavier Fabre (1766–1837), Officer of the Legion of Honour, painter and collector, made to the city of Montpellier and accepted by the mayor in January 1825, after a specific deliberation held on the subject by the municipal council. The museum's founders are the mayor of the time, born at Bouleternère in Roussillon of the Maison Dax, an old family of consuls of the City of Carcassonne in the Middle Ages settled since the fifteenth century notably at Axat in the Haute Vallée de l'Aude, first president of the Société des Beaux-Arts, the Marquis de Dax d'Axat (1767–1847) jointly with Fabre, whom the mayor expressly had join the municipal council. It is one of the most important museums in the south of France. It has the status of Musée de France, within the meaning of law no. 2002-5 of 4 January 2002.
