A medieval manuscript from the prestigious monastic library of Mont Saint-Michel, one of the most important of its time in France, was recently rediscovered after more than two hundred years of absence. The return to the French national collections r...
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In France, in the heart ofOccitania, along the Route de Lespignan, one of the most ambitious historical reconstruction projects of experimental archaeology in France will take shape in the city of Béziers, a town of 80,000 inhabitants located ...
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In Nantes, there is a green line that winds across the asphalt like an uncovered, tense, pulsing vein that invites detour, slanted step, and the lopsided geography of desire.
It starts from a garden populated by imaginary creatures, stretching color...
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In Paris, the Louvre is planning a major exhibition devoted to Jacques-Louis David (Paris, 1748-Brussels, 1825), a great painter associated with the Neoclassical movement, the leading one in Napoleonic France. Curated by Sébastien Allard, Gene...
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In Melun, in the department of Seine and Marne (France), an important corner of ancient history has resurfaced. A team fromINRAP, the National Research Institute of Preventive Archaeology, in collaboration with the Departmental Archaeology Service (S...
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The Louvre Museum, a worldwide symbol of art and culture, experienced a day of tension and forced closure when its employees called a sudden strike yesterday, Monday, June 16, to protest working conditions that have become, in their words, untenable....
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It was considered a simple copy, but turned out to be an extremely rare original by Auguste Rodin (Paris, 1840 - Meudon, 1917) small marble sculpture titled Le Désespoir (The Despair), made in 1892, was recently authenticated and sold at aucti...
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The Musée de la Chartreuse in Douai, northern France, announces that it has discovered what the institution says is an unpublished painting by Lavinia Fontana (Bologna, 1552 - Rome, 1614), one of the greatest painters of the 16th century. The ...
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