Catherine Pégard appointed cultural adviser to the Élysée (please try not to laugh)

On the subject of heritage and museums, Emmanuel Macron’s two terms will go down in history as a dark period. The scandals he has provoked are countless — from the weakening of laws protecting Historic Monuments to the senseless development of wind turbines, from the removal of the stained-glass windows of Notre-Dame to the transport of the Bayeux Tapestry… Before his first election, he declared that there was no such thing as French culture. Since then, he has relentlessly attacked it on almost every front.

At his twilight — for fortunately everything ends, even bad things — the President of the Republic has just added a new entry (which will probably not be the last,…