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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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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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Classification of the Eiffel Tower: what the heritage law saysWhile Emmanuel Grégoire, the first deputy mayor of Paris, said that he was not opposed to the classification of the Eiffel Tower and was prepared to look into the matter, Anne Hidalgo stated this…
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Budget cancellations: a new blow to France’s heritageThe Ministry of the Budget (obviously in collusion with the Élysée Palace) has just wiped €10 billion off France’s budget with the stroke of a pen, despite the fact that the budget was debated in…
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Rachida Dati’s hot heritage issues in ParisFrance’s new Minister of Culture didn’t get off to a great start when she approved the ’relocation-reconstruction’ of the Institut Curie’s Pavillon des Sources... But while the future of this Parisian…
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New threats to the Place de la ConcordeThe Anne Hidalgo-style transformation of the Place de la Concorde is underway! In other words, the continuation of the regular massacre to which this fully listed square is subjected by Paris…
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Madam Minister for Culture, don’t let yourself be fooled by Vianney d’AlançonIn an article posted online yesterday on the Figaro website, the director of the Rocher Mistral theme park (whose co-shareholders are the Dassault, Michelin and Montagne families) made a…
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Tate Britain: Burlington Magazine’s opinionAfter writing our first news item about Tate Britain’s rehanging and acquisitions, we received the July issue of Burlington Magazine, whose editorial is devoted to precisely this subject. Those…
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Sculptures from the rood screen at Notre-Dame: obstruction from the body responsible for archaeological digsWe know that the salvage excavations at the transept crossing of Notre-Dame have found, as might be expected, some of the sculptures from the 13th-century rood screen destroyed in the 18th…
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The Musée de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame begins to emerge from limboAt the first "Assises de l’histoire de l’art" on Friday 7 July, an event organised by the Comité français de l’histoire de l’art at Sceaux during which several round-table discussions were held on a…
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Mr Vandal, do you accept the protection of the monument you are about to destroy?The French system for protecting historic monuments, which used to be one of the best in the world, is severely seized up. In addition to the legislative regressions we have witnessed in recent…
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Lie!On Tuesday 6 June, the Paris Council held a debate on the City Hall’s plan to redevelop the surroundings of Notre-Dame. Emmanuel Grégoire, the first deputy mayor, once again repeated an incredible…
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The Fontainebleau woke festivalWe are very fond of the Festival de l’histoire de l’art, an annual three-day event that brings together a wide range of players from the museum, university, heritage and market worlds, as well as…
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Threats to the heritage of the Faubourg Saint-AntoineThe under-protection of France’s heritage, particularly in Paris, the incomprehensible lack of "sites patrimoniaux remarquables" in the capital with the exception of those in the 7th…
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The Fitzwilliam Museum is looking for its "Empowering Culture Program Manager"This is a very curious position that the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has just opened, and it released the job description a few days ago. The job description, which consists of running a…
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Benin bronzes from German museums returned to the private sectorOnly the naive (to put it mildly) will be surprised. It was bound to happen, and it is happening even sooner than we thought: a massive restitution operation has turned into a farce, and works…
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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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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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Italy taxes photographs even for researchersLa révolte gronde dans le milieu de l’histoire de l’art en Italie, et avec d’excellentes raisons. Le nouveau ministre de la Culture (Ministro dei Beni Culturali), Gennaro Sangiuliano, arrivé au…
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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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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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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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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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Import VAT: another solution is possibleThe French Ministry of Finance and the French Ministry of Culture held a press briefing today on the issue of VAT on works of art which, for some days now, following the article published by Les…