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  • Fontaine Saint-Michel: highly lucrative advertising

    The system is perverse, and we have denounced it on many occasions: advertising on historic monuments in France, which is usually prohibited, was authorised in 2007 on condition that it was…

  • « Rocher Mistral », heritage and parasol

    In an opinion piece recently published in Figarovox, Vianney-Marie Audemard d’Alançon, chairman of SAS Rocher Mistral and unsuccessful creator of an amusement park at the classified Château de La…

  • Notre-Dame: the untruths of Archbishop Ulrich

    Can you be an archbishop and lie? Clearly, yes, as Archbishop Laurent Ulrich has just demonstrated in an interview given to the newspaper Paris Notre-Dame, which distributes the good word of...…

  • Bercy protects the sell-off of châteaux

    It may be a politically uncertain time in France, but there is no denying the need to make savings. Antoine Armand, the new Minister for the Economy and Finance, and Laurent Saint-Martin, the new…

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  • The poet and the rood screen

    Yesterday, Wednesday, The French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) organised a press conference to give an update on the discoveries at Notre-Dame. La Tribune de…

  • Don’t blame me, blame him

    In view of the success of the petition for the conservation of Viollet-le-Duc’s stained glass windows, which has risen sharply in recent days and will certainly reach 200,000 signatories before…

  • Anne Hidalgo, the Lady of the Rings

    It’s exhausting. There are few months, or even weeks, when Anne Hidalgo doesn’t take a decision that is harmful to our heritage and to Paris. Without any real opposition from the State or the…

  • The Louvre Colonnade: an enchanted interlude

    You have to see it to believe it. For the first time in at least twenty years, if not more, the Louvre colonnade, that masterpiece of classical architecture attributed to Claude Perrault - but in…

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  • A Michel Dorigny decoration at Port-Marly town hall

    Les décors peints du XVIIe siècle français conservés sont suffisamment rares pour ne pas signaler tous ceux que l’on peut encore voir, notamment lorsqu’ils sont conservés dans des bâtiments…

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  • The ‘ephemeral’ Grand Palais must go

    Never, of course, should the Ministry of Culture or Paris City Council have agreed to the installation of the ‘ephemeral’ Grand Palais in front of the École Militaire, a building by Gabriel, one of…

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  • The crown of light, a new scandal at Notre-Dame de Paris

    An article published three days ago in La Tribune, written by Philippe D’Indevillers, tells us that the chief architect of historic monuments, Philippe Villeneuve, regrets that ‘the archbishop of…

  • La Barben and the Champ-de-Mars, same battles

    One is in the countryside, in Provence, the other in Paris. But the threats facing the area around the Château de La Barben and the Champ-de-Mars, both of which are in the vicinity of historic…

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  • Notre-Dame: Rachida Dati ignores the opinion of the CNPA

    As we always do with new arrivals at the Ministry of Culture, we welcomed the appointment of Rachida Dati, hoping that she would bring about a change in the practices of the Ministry, especially…

  • Nancy, just like Paris...

    While the disappearance of Paris is becoming ever more apparent as the Olympic Games approach in the city managed (if we dare use that term) by Anne Hidalgo, the latter continues to set an…

  • 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,…