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In Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire abolishes the position of Deputy in Charge of HeritageLe nouveau maire de Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, a donc 36 adjoints, pas un de moins. Chacun s’est vu affecté plusieurs sujets. Il y a, la liste n’est qu’indicative, un adjoint à la vie nocturne, un…
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Catherine Pégard, French minister for cultureIIt 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 supervisionWe 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…
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The discriminatory museumWe 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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Notre-Dame stained glass: the administrative court rejects Sites & Monuments’ claim at first instanceC’est une défaite, mais elle n’est que partielle, et provisoire : le tribunal administratif de Paris a rejeté la requête de l’association Sites & Monuments et d’un particulier donateur Jean-David…
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Laurence des Cars before the French National Assembly: false, utterly false!In her hearing before the Cultural Commission of the French National Assembly on 19 November, Laurence des Cars, president-director of the Musée du Louvre, reiterated the same falsehoods, displaying…
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The Louvre’s scapegoatsWe 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…
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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…
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Artworks and wealth tax, the eternal returnIt 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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The senators’ questions to which Laurence des Cars did not respondLes auditions devant les commissions du Sénat ou de l’Assemblée nationale se déroulent toujours selon le même schéma. Après un discours liminaire, la personne auditionnée est interrogée par les…
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Louvre: Inspection Générale report slams Laurence des CarsIt is a security failure and, more broadly, a failure for everyone.” This is what Rachida Dati has just declared in an interview on TF1 (ill. 1) concerning the report by the Inspectorate General of…
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Public procurement: the new scapegoats of the Louvre and the MinistryDuring her hearing before the Senate’s Cultural Affairs Committee, Laurence des Cars explained that the security work "requires considerable time for analysis and diagnostics". These works are indeed…
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The “New Renaissance of the Louvre” project is the problem, not the solutionBeing a Cassandra is never a pleasant position. Yet, for the Louvre, that is what we have been. We are, of course, referring to the "New Renaissance of the Louvre" project conceived by Laurence des…
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Laurence des Cars’ hearing: is security an absolute priority?Laurence des Cars was therefore questioned on Wednesday by the Senate Cultural Committee. It was a long session, as is customary in this type of hearing, where many questions were asked, some of…
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Bayeux Tapestry: the Élysée writes (again) to La Tribune de l’ArtLe 6 octobre, l’Élysée était particulièrement occupé par la démission du Premier ministre Sébastien Lecornu. Le secrétaire du directeur adjoint de cabinet trouvait néanmoins le temps de nous envoyer…
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Bayeux Tapestry: the Élysée writes to La Tribune de l’ArtC’est une lettre très aimable que l’Élysée nous a adressée, en date du 24 septembre 2025. Nous avions en effet saisi la Commission d’accès aux documents administratifs (CADA), afin d’obtenir le…
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Catherine Pégard appointed cultural adviser to the Élysée (please try not to laugh)Sur le plan du patrimoine et des musées, les deux mandats d’Emmanuel Macron resteront dans l’histoire comme une période sombre. On ne compte plus les scandales qu’il a pu provoquer, de…
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Interview with Philippe Bélaval on the Bayeux Tapestry: textual analysisPhilippe Bélaval fut, parmi ses nombreuses fonctions exercées au ministère de la Culture, un bon directeur du Centre des Monuments Nationaux, et on peut le considérer comme un ami du patrimoine. Il…
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Patrick Gomont, new expert on the Bayeux TapestrySous le titre « Face à la polémique, les révélations de Patrick Gomont », La Renaissance-Le Bessin-Côte de Nacre publie une interview de ce dernier (consultable sur le site Actu.fr) à propos de la…
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The French National Assembly ignores the law on Remarkable Heritage SitesS’il y a une dissolution que nous aimerions voir actée, c’est bien celle du projet du projet de construction d’un nouveau pavillon d’accueil par l’Assemblée nationale. On sait en effet que cette…
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To great women, the grateful homeland (a contribution to the debate)L’idée est lancée, et c’est peu de dire qu’elle l’est par une des grandes intelligences de notre époque, qui situe très haut le niveau des débat : rien moins qu’Élisabeth Borne, ancienne premier…
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Bayeux Tapestry: Orwell enters the debateLast January, the prefecture of Calvados (that is, the French State) published a video on its YouTube account about the dusting of the Bayeux Tapestry. On that occasion, the museum adviser from the…
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Bayeux Tapestry: facts and fiatWhile the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry was decided by the President of the Republic and our petition has reached 60,000 signatures — which is insufficient, but nevertheless succeeded in widely…
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Trumpism and wokism, two sides of the same coinExtremes always give rise to other extremes. As we wrote in our book “Mauvais genre au musée”, it is in part the excesses of wokism, particularly strong in the United States, that have allowed the…
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“Restitutions”: A permanent exception lawThe purpose of the bill “relating to the restitution of cultural property from States which, due to illicit appropriation, have been deprived of it” can be summarised as the Conseil d’État did in its…