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Impossible to escape the Olympic Games
"There may be some who would like to do something else..." suggested Raymond Devos, a French comedian, in a falsely ingenuous tone in a sketch entitled "Faites l’amour, pas la guerre" ("Make love,…
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The French Ministry of Culture requests the removal of a non-compliant installation
If the request made by Culture Minister Rachida Dati to Société Foncière Lyonnaise (SFL) the day before yesterday, Thursday 18 April, is acted upon, it is a welcome one. This developer is in charge…
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Fragments of the rood screen at Notre-Dame finally revealed
Last July, we wrote an article about "the obstruction of INRAP", which did not want to give access to the fragments of sculptures from the rood screen of the cathedral discovered during the…
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From Copenhagen to Paris
There is no end to the litany of historic monuments in France and elsewhere in Europe that have gone up in flames while work was underway to restore them. This time it’s Denmark’s turn to be hit by…
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Notre-Dame: a very intrusive choir organ
Notre-Dame should not be a playground for the French President of the Republic or the Archbishop of Paris. No doubt they think they have some legitimacy in the decisions they take, but they have…
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 9 - 3/4/24 : Alexandre d’Andoque
Cela fait plus d’un an que nous n’avions pas produit de podcast, pour des raisons de temps essentiellement. Nous allons essayer d’être plus régulier à l’avenir, mais nous préférons ne pas nous engager…
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The Beauvoisine Museum in Rouen: a ruinous and destructive project
When we met the new director of Rouen’s museums at a press briefing, he told us about the "vast architectural and museographic renovation project" for the two museums in the rue Beauvoisine, the…
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Musée de l’Œuvre de Notre-Dame: an opportunity for the Hôtel-Dieu
The regrettable affair of the Viollet-le-Duc stained glass windows (sign the petition) should not detract from a remarkable decision by the French President of the Republic, which cannot be…
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Contemporary stained glass windows at Notre-Dame: it’s possible, in the north tower
French President Emmanuel Macron and Mgr Ulrich, Archbishop of Paris, want to leave their mark on Notre-Dame cathedral by commissioning contemporary stained glass windows. While the idea of…
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La Tribune de l’Art launches a petition to save Notre-Dame’s stained glass windows
La Tribune de l’Art generally prefers to support petitions rather than launch them itself. But the announcement by the President of the Republic that he was going to replace some of…
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Notre-Dame: Musée de l’Œuvre on track, Viollet-le-Duc’s stained glass windows under threat
The President of the French Republic today visited the Notre-Dame construction site, one year to the day before it is due to reopen to the public on 8 December 2024. The framework is almost…
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Statue unbolted and Art Deco destroyed - yesterday’s sad news
If only there were a French Ministry of Culture responsible for heritage, that would be a good idea. Unfortunately, the joke is back in the news. Two events have just occurred, two events that we…
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What will become of Louis XV’s commode?
Curious onlookers, connoisseurs, experts and dealers flocked to the Saint-Germain-en-Laye auction house this morning, where - for less than three days - an exceptional piece of furniture finally…
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An exemplary indictment of Rocher Mistral
On Tuesday 14 November, Rocher Mistral and Vianney d’Alençon appeared before the criminal court in Aix-en-Provence to answer for the countless breaches of the heritage, town planning and…
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A report on Versailles by the French Court of Accounts
The Court of Accounts’ reports on public cultural institutions are always interesting reading and most of the time raise excellent questions. Their only limitation is, sometimes, a lack of…
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The Oberkampf Pool finally listed as a historic monument
Fortunately, it’s not all bad news. We reported a year and a half ago on the threats hanging over the Molitor Pool, a fine example of Art Deco, a style that has been vandalised too often in recent…
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Salon du Patrimoine : la transmission demande un engagement fort de l’État
Le Salon du Patrimoine culturel ouvre ses portes comme chaque année, pour quatre jours, au Carrousel du Louvre. Nous lui avions consacré un article l’an dernier pour souligner son intérêt en même…
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The French love their heritage
One mayor asked his constituents whether to demolish or restore the village church, which was in a state of peril. Another put to the vote whether or not to move the statue of Napoleon that…
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Champ-de-Mars: the Town Hall takes legal action to defend a project it says it abandoned!
On Thursday 19 October, three days ago, the Paris Administrative Court of Appeal held a hearing on an application by several associations[[France Nature Environnement, SOS Paris, Les Amis du…
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The renaissance of Villers-Cotterêts
If there is one good heritage project to come out of Emmanuel Macron’s two terms in office, it will be the resurrection of the royal chateau of Villers-Cotterêts. Abandoned by the French State, it…
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Patrimonial, a new magazine
In this age of the Internet - the importance of which we are not unaware! - it’s always pleasing to see the birth of a new ’paper’ magazine, and even more so when it’s in the field of heritage. It is…
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The statue of La Bourdonnais on Réunion Island soon to be unbolted
On 6 May we reported on the threats to unbolt the bronze statue of La Bourdonnais, sculpted by Louis Rochet and listed as a historic monument. These threats are becoming increasingly pressing,…
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Three inalienable paintings sold by the French State
On 19 September this year, the Domaines auctioned three paintings belonging to a prefecture. Due to lack of time, we were unable to go into more detail about the origin of the works. It was the…
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French Ministry of Culture budget conference: good news and bad news
French Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak presented the Ministry of Culture’s budget on Wednesday. As we have often written, a budget can only be fully judged once it has actually been spent. In…
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Disappearance of Paris: an Art Deco building and several trees
The disappearance of Paris under Mayor Anne Hidalgo, which we denounced in a book published last year by Belles Lettres, is no fiction, unfortunately, and this disappearance is even accelerating.…
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Three paintings sold by a French prefecture...
The sale, which is online only, closes tomorrow at 11am. So it’s very late to be talking about it, but we didn’t find out about it until yesterday, Sunday, and we didn’t get a full reply (obviously…
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Protection du patrimoine : de bonnes mesures qui ne résolvent pas tout
Nous critiquons suffisamment souvent la politique patrimoniale du chef de l’État pour convenir que, pour une fois, les mesures qu’il a annoncées hier en faveur du patrimoine religieux vont dans le…