Didier Rykner
Articles
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A short lesson on the protection of historic monuments, for Jean-François Martins, Director of the Eiffel Tower operating company
It’s one thing for politicians to talk rubbish about the legislation governing historic monuments, but it’s quite another for them to be able to do so over and over again on the airwaves without…
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Classification of the Eiffel Tower: what the heritage law says
While Emmanuel Grégoire, the first deputy mayor of Paris, said that he was not opposed to the classification of the Eiffel Tower and was prepared to look into the matter, Anne Hidalgo stated this…
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The fontaine des Innocents restored, Goujon’s nymphs to join "a museum"
The restoration of the Fontaine of the Innocents is finally coming to an end. This is good news, especially as the restoration work appears to have been carried out with great care and respect…
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A short lesson on the protection of historic monuments, for Emmanuel Grégoire, deputy mayor of Paris
In an excerpt widely shared on social networks, Emmanuel Grégoire is heard talking to Sud Radio about the Eiffel Tower and the request for the monument to be classified by Culture Minister Rachida…
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Budget cancellations: a new blow to France’s heritage
The Ministry of the Budget (obviously in collusion with the Élysée Palace) has just wiped €10 billion off France’s budget with the stroke of a pen, despite the fact that the budget was debated in…
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Horace Vernet
At the 1855 Universal Exhibition, which took the place of the Salon and where foreign schools came to confront the French school, the latter put four painters in the limelight, who benefited from…
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Many judicial and financial problems for Rocher Mistral
Rocher Mistral and Vianney d’Alançon have just been condemned, at first instance, by the Aix-en-Provence court for unauthorised work carried out at the Château de La Barben. It is interesting to…
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Prosper Mérimée
A writer, of course, and one of the best of the French nineteenth century, of which there were many, but also a historian, art critic and many other things besides, Prosper Mérimée is a fascinating…
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Comfort at the museum
Visiter un musée ne doit pas devenir un parcours du combattant. Ils sont beaucoup trop nombreux à oublier cette composante essentielle pour la délectation artistique : le confort. Visiting a museum…
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Christophe Leribault leaves Orsay for Versailles
Although we knew a few days ago that Catherine Pégard’s succession had - at last - been settled, with the as yet unannounced appointment of Christophe Leribault as President of the Etablissement…
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