Didier Rykner
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The insurance of the Bayeux Tapestry: a vast shamThe relocation of the Bayeux Tapestry to London will therefore be insured by the United Kingdom for the sum of £800 million, the equivalent of €917 million, almost one billion. This amount, revealed…
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Hearing of Laurence des Cars : senators are not fooled« You declared before us, on 22 October last, I quote : “I did not rule in favour of one priority rather than another, I made security an absolute emergency”. The IGAC and the MISSA, in their…
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The utterly despairing nonsense surrounding The Desperate ManIt is fascinating to see how many people, on social networks but also sometimes in the media, can talk utter nonsense about subjects they know nothing about. This is the case for the Desperate Man…
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God laughs...Many officials of the Rassemblement National, among whom one of the leading figures, Jordan Bardella, publicly expressed on Twitter their indignation over the sale of Gustave Courbet’s The Desperate…
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The threats of Laurence des CarsWe will return in detail very soon to the two hearings before the Senate’s Cultural Commission — that of Jean-Luc Martinez on Tuesday, December 16 — and the second of Laurence des Cars on December…
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The Louvre’s priorities…The auditorium of the Louvre was full this morning for the union meeting that was to confirm the strike starting today. What stood out most was the presence of all categories of staff at the Louvre,…
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Preemptions at the Fontaine saleOn 21 November, an exceptional sale of part of the studio holdings of Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, the architect active under Napoleon I and the Restoration, took place at Drouot, under the…
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Louvre: Laurence des Cars placed under supervisionWe recently wrote that the public body responsible for Notre-Dame no longer had any reason to exist, the restorations to come having no connection whatsoever with the fire. The Minister of Culture…
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At the Senate: new incriminating evidence against the LouvreDuring the hearing on 10 December of the rapporteurs from the General Inspectorate of Cultural Affairs on the Louvre theft, the president of the Senate Cultural Commission, Laurent Lafon, began the…
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300,000!Never had a petition on a heritage matter achieved such success, by a very long way, in any country. The one we launched, two years ago now, to oppose the plan to replace the stained-glass windows by…