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  • Madame «Pas de vagues»

    Since her arrival at the French Ministry of Culture, Catherine Pégard has been formidably effective… at obituaries. We regularly receive reports of her sadness (sometimes great, sometimes deep, more…

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  • Museums of fakes?

    The theft of the Vix torque is certainly the last straw. Works of this type, threatened by melting down, should have been put into safekeeping while solutions for protection against burglaries were…

    Didier Rykner Museums, Editorial, Policy

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  • Lettre du président de l’ANBF au ministre Vincent Jeanbrun

    Nous publions ici, avec son accord, la lettre que le président de l’Association Nationale des Architectes des Bâtiments de France a adressé au ministre de la Ville et du Logement Vincent Jeanbrun.

    Fabien Sénéchal Debates, Policy, Heritage

  • Louvre: Emmanuel Macron’s obstinacy

    Relocation of the Bayeux Tapestry, stained glass windows of Notre-Dame, Louvre Colonnade project… Less than a year before his final departure from the Élysée, Emmanuel Macron persists and doubles…

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  • Catherine Pégard, French minister for culture

    IIt usually takes at least three months for the minister for culture to fall out with La Tribune de l’Art. This time, it has already happened, so time is saved. Let us be fair, however. If Catherine…

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  • Hearing of Laurence des Cars : senators are not fooled

    « You declared before us, on 22 October last, I quote : “I did not rule in favour of one priority rather than another, I made security an absolute emergency”. The IGAC and the MISSA, in their…

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  • Louvre: Laurence des Cars placed under supervision

    We recently wrote that the public body responsible for Notre-Dame no longer had any reason to exist, the restorations to come having no connection whatsoever with the fire. The Minister of Culture…

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  • 300,000!

    Never had a petition on a heritage matter achieved such success, by a very long way, in any country. The one we launched, two years ago now, to oppose the plan to replace the stained-glass windows by…

    Didier Rykner Heritage

  • The discriminatory museum

    We will not make this a long‑standing cause, as we already have enough of them, no doubt more important. But the announcement of a 45% increase in the Musée du Louvre’s admission fee (from €22 to…

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  • The Louvre’s scapegoats

    We have been writing this regularly since the theft of October 19 at the Louvre: the accumulating evidence demonstrating the mismanagement of the Louvre’s presidency would, in any democracy that…

    Didier Rykner Editorial, Policy, Museums

  • Lies from the Louvre about security: new evidence

    “I made security an absolute priority”. We have already had occasion to write this several times: this sentence by Laurence des Cars, spoken before the Senate and since repeated on many occasions, is…

    Didier Rykner Policy, Museums

  • Artworks and wealth tax, the eternal return

    It was to be expected, as this foolish measure keeps resurfacing, even if we did not see it coming this time: a budgetary amendment has been passed establishing a “wealth tax on unproductive assets”…

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