“After having been present there from Georges Pompidou to Jacques Chirac, artistic issues are no longer of interest at the Elysée” | EUROtoday

Ln February 7, Jack Lang was pressured to resign as president of the Arab World Institute (IMA) due to his hyperlinks with Jeffrey Esptein. On February 12, a water leak on the Louvre Museum ruined a ceiling painted by Charles Meynier, within the nineteenth century.^e century, accident which happens after the theft of jewels from the crown of France, on October 19, 2025, and a primary water harm, just a few weeks later. Meanwhile, work begins on the Center Pompidou, so in depth that the constructing is closed for a very long time – till 2030 in accordance with probably the most optimistic forecasts.

There appears to be no connection between these information, apart from their concomitance. For two of them, nonetheless, slightly historical past is sufficient to set up a relationship: the Louvre, in its present state, was born from the desire of François Mitterrand, elected President of the Republic in 1981. He then pressured the Ministry of Finance to vacate the wing of the palace it occupies alongside the rue de Rivoli and initiated a building web site of which the pyramid was the monumental signal.

The venture was proposed to him in 1981, by Jack Lang, Minister of Culture from 1981 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1993. The latter is on the initiative of numerous cultural operations and establishments – information extensively recalled since his resignation. Some are very seen, from the Opéra Bastille, accomplished in 1989, to the Bibliothèque nationale de France, in 1995. Others are much less seen, however are simply as helpful, from elevated help for stay efficiency, in all its varieties, to the creation, in 1982, of regional up to date artwork funds. This is how a cultural coverage is applied, which requires vital budgetary sources.

Mitterrand is, nonetheless, not the primary president of the V^e Republic to intervene so clearly within the cultural discipline. If the Center Pompidou, to which we subsequently return, is so named, it’s as a result of its creation was desired by Georges Pompidou, in December 1969, six months after his entry into the Elysée. Aware of the poor state of the National Museum of Modern Art, then on the Palais de Tokyo, and the weakening of Paris on the worldwide scene, he selected a central location and spectacular structure, in order that the museum could be a powerful assertion, nationwide and worldwide.

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