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It is time to respect the Louvre ColonnadeA meeting was organized today at the Paris Centre City Hall by its mayor Ariel Weil to launch a reflection on the "Place du Louvre," an inappropriate term since this one, which is in front of the…
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Restoration of the Porte Dorée at the Château de FontainebleauWhat remains of the original decoration? The 16th-century frescoes that adorn the Porte Dorée of the Château de Fontainebleau are in a sorry state, victims of the passage of time, climatic…
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Surroundings of Notre-Dame: facts versus propagandaThe defense of the gardens of Notre-Dame is also a battle of communication. Thus, the article by Claire Bommelaer in Le Figaro, very factual and well informed, was titled - in the print edition:…
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Surroundings of Notre-Dame: the CNPA wants to keep the gatesLa CNPA (Commission nationale de l’architecture et du patrimoine) se réunissait donc ce matin pour aborder la question des abords de Notre-Dame. Le problème de ce type de commissions est qu’elles…
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The law that imposes gates around Square Jean XXIIIThanks to social networks, some Internet users can quickly disseminate vital information that can help advance heritage protection issues. For example, a Twitter account that prefers to remain…
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Open letter from associations about the Notre-Dame surroundingsAs part of the major national project to rebuild Notre-Dame de Paris, the City of Paris has planned to redevelop the areas around the cathedral that extend from the square to the eastern end of…
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Surroundings of Notre-Dame: the fake news of Emmanuel Grégoire (3): the disappeared benchesIn our series on the fake news spread by Paris City Hall, we can go back to the title of the first article because this time Emmanuel Grégoire, the mayor’s first deputy, is clear and martial on a…
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In Réunion, a sculpture removed ?On 14 June 2020, when the destruction of sculptures was in full swing, the French President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron stated: "no statue will be removed". However, this is what the French…
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Surroundings of Notre-Dame. The fake news of the Paris City Hall (2): the remarkable tree cut downWe have changed the title of our second article on the Paris City Hall fake news somewhat, as we could not find a quote from Emmanuel Grégoire saying that no trees would be cut down for the…
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Surroundings of Notre-Dame. Emmanuel Grégoire’s fake news (1): the lightEmmanuel Grégoire, and more generally the city hall of Paris, likes nothing better than to call his opponents names. He has no terms harsh enough to describe them, and that of "liar" comes up…
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50 millions !One point of the cathedral’s surrounds redevelopment project has not been sufficiently emphasised in recent days. Its implausible cost. Let’s remember that the day after the Notre-Dame fire, Anne…
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Gardens of Notre-Dame: an analysis of Emmanuel Grégoire’s interview in the JDDThe Journal du Dimanche, which reveals itself week after week more and more as the official organ of Paris City Hall, published today on its website an interview with an interview with Emmanuel…
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Surroundings of Notre-Dame: we have been too lenientWe try, contrary to what some may believe, to find positive points in the projects of the Municipality of Paris. Thus, for the development of the Notre-Dame area, we had initially written that…
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Jardin de l’Archevêché: when the Paris municipality makes fun of the CNPAOn 11 May, the CNPA (Commission Nationale du Patrimoine et de l’Architecture will examine the area around Notre-Dame, and in particular the future of the Jean XXIII and Île-de-France squares. For…
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Hôtel Mezzara : Take the money and runIn our first article on Hector Guimard’s Hotel Mezzara, written in April 2020, Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges wrote: "It is to be believed that heritage is considered a burden and that all pretexts…
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A petition to save the jardin de l’ArchevêchéThe disappearance of Paris, which we denounced in our book published last year, far from slowing down, is accelerating, as if the ever-stronger opposition of its inhabitants made the municipality…
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The Art Nouveau Madeleine Lavatory finally restoredGood news is so rare for the Parisian heritage that it must be mentioned, even if this one would not have been necessary in any other context, because the monument would not have been so long in…
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Let’s get Chagall out of the Opera!It is a fight for which we were pioneers: on November 2, 2003, exactly twenty years ago, just a few months after the birth of La Tribune de l’Art, we wrote in an article about the restoration of…
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Amiens cathedral better protected against fireThe Ministry of Culture organised today a trip by Rima Abdul Malak to Amiens and the nearby village of Conty to talk about heritage. The aim was to present the actions carried out on cathedrals…
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In Bordeaux, the mayor wants a vote for the restoration of the City HallThe sterile and absurd controversy over the restoration of Notre-Dame is starting again, on a smaller scale and this time in Bordeaux, for the door of the town hall (Palais Rohan)! The city’s…
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Living together enters the CMN"She has a solar and federating energy that raises" said the Minister of Culture, without laughing, quoted by Le Figaro, which revealed the news of Marie Lavandier’s nomination as president of the…
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Corsica wants to acquire Madonna of BrandoThe Corsicans are mobilising to acquire Brando’s Madonna, estimated at between 200,000 and 300,000 euros. It will face the auction fire at Drouot on 31 March, put up for sale by De…
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The Evangeliary of Saint-Mihiel: a new defeat for French heritageIt is one of the most important medieval manuscripts in the world. The Evangeliary of Saint-Mihiel was classified as a national treasure on 1 March 2020. According to the opinion of the…
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A (final?) opportunity to save the decor of the Roman BarIn 2011, we published a news item to express our indignation at the sale of a set of thirteen paintings by Gustave Surand, which formed the décor of the Bar Romain, next to L’Olympia, after these…
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Grand séminaire of Besançon: call for fundraising and voteA major restoration is always a failure. It means that the monument has not been maintained when it should have been, that is to say regularly. And when you see the state of the "pavillon de…
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Restoration of the chapels of Saint-Joseph of Saint-Sulpice and Saint-EustacheLa restauration des églises parisiennes se poursuit, menée par la Conservation des œuvres d’art religieuses et civiles (COARC) et par la Direction des affaires culturelles de la Ville de Paris (DAC).…
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The Cour des Comptes investigates the sale of the Grignon furnitureIn France, an ordinance relating to the financial responsibility regime of public managers has recently modified the conditions under which public managers can be sanctioned for their actions.…