From 1797 to 1905, the Musée d Artillerie, one of the forerunners of the Musée de l'Armée, collected, preserved, studied and presented to its visitors various objects relating to military heritage: weapons of all kinds, armours, emblems, historical souvenirs and archaeological remains. As an establishment under the French Artillery Directorate, its primary mission is to preserve the memory and evolution of armaments for the benefit of the improvement and experimentation work of artillery officers. However, its revolutionary origins, on the one hand, and the appetite for archaeology of its various curators, on the other, have led it to preserve these ecle ctic collections. In 1905, thanks to more than a century of work, he bequeathed nearly 14,000 objects to the Musée de l'Armée, including most of the pieces from the Garde-Meuble de la Meuble de la Couronne and the eighteenth and nineteenth century firearms that are prepreserved there today.