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  • The little comedy of Dutch restitutions

    In the great race to return artefacts to Africa, the Netherlands have just got back into the game with a sensational move supported and validated by the Minister of Culture Eppo Bruins. More than a…

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  • The "Renaissance of the Louvre" threatens the Louvre

    Laurence des Cars, inside the Louvre, only talks to her close collaborators. Many people in the museum complain that she does not say hello to anyone, keeping her head stubbornly fixed towards the…

  • Palm trees on the Place de la Concorde

    Quand les bornes sont franchies, il n’y a plus de limites. La mairie de Paris, déjà friande des dictons à la façon de Pierre Dac ou d’Alphonse Allais (elle veut mettre les villes à la campagne, en…

  • Emmanuel Macron’s little grand Louvre

    Emmanuel Macron’s speech at the Louvre, in which he wished to appear as the savior of a museum he has never cared about until now, was sewn with white thread. We had already known for two years that…

  • Remarkable announcements from the Minister for Culture

    The interview that Rachida Dati has just given to our colleagues at Figaro marks, in our view, an unexpected and remarkable turning point in the heritage policy of the Ministry of Culture. While we…

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  • Notre-Dame stained glass windows: a budget of €3 to 4 million

    Will the replacement of Viollet-le-Duc’s stained glass windows at Notre-Dame cost 3 million euros, as Michel Guerrin revealed in an article in Le Monde published last Friday? Or is the total budget 4…

  • 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 placed on…

  • 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... the…

  • 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…

  • 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 long,…

  • 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 ‘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…

  • 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 as…

  • Friends of the Louvre banned from entering the Louvre

    We never would have thought we would see this one day, and even during Jean-Luc Martinez’s tenure, we hadn’t seen it.. But everything happens, and from now on Friends of the Louvre are no longer…