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An exhibition centred on Bartholdi’s Champollion, on long-term loan in Nogent-sur-Seine

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13/4/26 - Exposition - Nogent-sur-Seine, Musée Camille Claudel - Ignorance, stupidity, ideology? It is hard to know what to attribute the remarks made by Bénédicte Savoy about the Champollion statue that until recently stood in the courtyard of the Collège de France. The exhibition devoted to it by the Musée Camille Claudel in Nogent-sur-Seine carefully avoids using these terms, yet it is unambiguous and clearly explains that this lady’s thesis is false, completely false. We refer readers to the article we published on this subject, and invite them to visit this exhibition, the pretext for which is the deposit of this monument in the museum by the Fonds national d’art contemporain, which owns it.


1. Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904)
Monument to Jean-François Champollion, 1867…

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