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Fragments of the rood screen at Notre-Dame finally revealedLast July, we wrote an article about "the obstruction of INRAP", which did not want to give access to the fragments of sculptures from the rood screen of the cathedral discovered during the…
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From Copenhagen to ParisThere is no end to the litany of historic monuments in France and elsewhere in Europe that have gone up in flames while work was underway to restore them. This time it’s Denmark’s turn to be hit by…
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Notre-Dame: a very intrusive choir organNotre-Dame should not be a playground for the French President of the Republic or the Archbishop of Paris. No doubt they think they have some legitimacy in the decisions they take, but they have…
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 9 - 3/4/24 : Alexandre d’AndoqueIt’s been over a year since we last produced a podcast, mainly due to time constraints. We’re going to try to be more regular in future, but we prefer not to commit ourselves unless we’re sure we…
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The Beauvoisine Museum in Rouen: a ruinous and destructive projectWhen we met the new director of Rouen’s museums at a press briefing, he told us about the "vast architectural and museographic renovation project" for the two museums in the rue Beauvoisine, the…
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Three new databasesWe’ve been announcing it for a long time, but this time it’s done: our databases are being enriched, and no fewer than three new ones will be added to the existing Stella database, which lists…
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A short lesson on the protection of historic monuments, for Jean-François Martins, Director of the Eiffel Tower operating companyIt’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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La Tribune de l’Art launches a petition to save Notre-Dame’s stained glass windowsLa Tribune de l’Art generally prefers to support petitions rather than launch them itself. But the announcement by the President of the Republic that he was going to replace some of…
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Notre-Dame: Musée de l’Œuvre on track, Viollet-le-Duc’s stained glass windows under threatThe President of the French Republic today visited the Notre-Dame construction site, one year to the day before it is due to reopen to the public on 8 December 2024. The framework is almost…
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Statue unbolted and Art Deco destroyed - yesterday’s sad newsIf only there were a French Ministry of Culture responsible for heritage, that would be a good idea. Unfortunately, the joke is back in the news. Two events have just occurred, two events that we…
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What will become of Louis XV’s commode?Curious onlookers, connoisseurs, experts and dealers flocked to the Saint-Germain-en-Laye auction house this morning, where - for less than three days - an exceptional piece of furniture finally…
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An exemplary indictment of Rocher MistralOn Tuesday 14 November, Rocher Mistral and Vianney d’Alençon appeared before the criminal court in Aix-en-Provence to answer for the countless breaches of the heritage, town planning and…
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A report on Versailles by the French Court of AccountsThe Court of Accounts’ reports on public cultural institutions are always interesting reading and most of the time raise excellent questions. Their only limitation is, sometimes, a lack of…
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The Oberkampf Pool finally listed as a historic monumentFortunately, it’s not all bad news. We reported a year and a half ago on the threats hanging over the Molitor Pool, a fine example of Art Deco, a style that has been vandalised too often in recent…
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Salon du Patrimoine : la transmission demande un engagement fort de l’ÉtatLe Salon du Patrimoine culturel ouvre ses portes comme chaque année, pour quatre jours, au Carrousel du Louvre. Nous lui avions consacré un article l’an dernier pour souligner son intérêt en même…
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The French love their heritageOne mayor asked his constituents whether to demolish or restore the village church, which was in a state of peril. Another put to the vote whether or not to move the statue of Napoleon that…
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Champ-de-Mars: the Town Hall takes legal action to defend a project it says it abandoned!On Thursday 19 October, three days ago, the Paris Administrative Court of Appeal held a hearing on an application by several associations[[France Nature Environnement, SOS Paris, Les Amis du…
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The renaissance of Villers-CotterêtsIf there is one good heritage project to come out of Emmanuel Macron’s two terms in office, it will be the resurrection of the royal chateau of Villers-Cotterêts. Abandoned by the French State, it…
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Patrimonial, a new magazineIn this age of the Internet - the importance of which we are not unaware! - it’s always pleasing to see the birth of a new ’paper’ magazine, and even more so when it’s in the field of heritage. It is…
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The statue of La Bourdonnais on Réunion Island soon to be unboltedOn 6 May we reported on the threats to unbolt the bronze statue of La Bourdonnais, sculpted by Louis Rochet and listed as a historic monument. These threats are becoming increasingly pressing,…
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Three inalienable paintings sold by the French StateOn 19 September this year, the Domaines auctioned three paintings belonging to a prefecture. Due to lack of time, we were unable to go into more detail about the origin of the works. It was the…
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French Ministry of Culture budget conference: good news and bad newsFrench Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak presented the Ministry of Culture’s budget on Wednesday. As we have often written, a budget can only be fully judged once it has actually been spent. In…
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Disappearance of Paris: an Art Deco building and several treesThe disappearance of Paris under Mayor Anne Hidalgo, which we denounced in a book published last year by Belles Lettres, is no fiction, unfortunately, and this disappearance is even accelerating.…
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Three paintings sold by a French prefecture...The sale, which is online only, closes tomorrow at 11am. So it’s very late to be talking about it, but we didn’t find out about it until yesterday, Sunday, and we didn’t get a full reply (obviously…
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Protection du patrimoine : de bonnes mesures qui ne résolvent pas toutNous critiquons suffisamment souvent la politique patrimoniale du chef de l’État pour convenir que, pour une fois, les mesures qu’il a annoncées hier en faveur du patrimoine religieux vont dans le…
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The Palais de la Porte Dorée looks after its Art Deco heritageHow can we not talk about resurrection? A complete décor has been reborn for visitors to this iconic French Art Deco monument : the beautiful Salon des Laques has been restored to its original…
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Interview with Mathilde Augé, Executive Director of WMF FranceThe World Monument Fund is an international organisation dedicated to safeguarding architecture and heritage. It had an affiliate office in France that took part in numerous restoration projects…
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