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‘My aim is to improve France’s building trade by training more women’

A Marseille-based painter and decorator explains her plans to change the image of construction trades and encourage women to join

The reason why this southern French village survived the great plague

Uncover the history of the village of Lautrec, which has a beautiful church, a majestic windmill and a special geological feature that helped its inhabitants survive the plague

French ‘lost’ old master painting was on family’s living room wall

The work by French Rococo artist Fragonard had been hanging unnoticed for decades

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Paris Orsay museum opens new impressionist wing

The Musée d’Orsay in Paris has opened a new €900,000 wing dedicated to the works of impressionist and post-impressionist painters, including Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Paul Sérusier.

Revival for sensual artist inspired by France

Watercolours by artist Sir William Russell Flint were in many post-war British homes, where their hint of sun and siestas banished the grey. He died 50 years ago and Michael Delahaye looks at his works in France…

€700 to add colour to Brest

Residents in Brest have taken up the chance to brighten up the town after the mairie announced it would pay them for giving their houses or facades a coat of paint – as long as it was bright.

Renoir work stolen by Nazis returned to French owner

The French grandchild of a Jewish art collector has had a Renoir painting returned to her family by an American museum, after the piece was stolen by the Nazis in 1941.

Sculpture by French sculptor Rodin sold for over €100k

A nineteenth-century sculpture by French sculptor Auguste Rodin, dedicated to painter Claude Monet, has been sold at auction in Cannes for more than €100,000.

‘Lost and found’ priceless artwork to be exhibited

A painting by French artist Fragonard, which had been given up as lost, has been found and is set to appear in a new exhibition in Grasse (Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) from May 25.

Roussillon museum discovers half its artworks are fake

An art museum in the Pyrénées-Orientales has discovered that up to half of its exhibited paintings are fakes, with the fraud estimated to be worth €160,000 to the local mairie.

Artist arrested for naked pose in front of Mona Lisa

An artist has been arrested after taking naked portraits of himself in front of the Mona Lisa painting in the Louvre art gallery in Paris.

Painter

‘My aim is to improve France’s building trade by training more women’

The reason why this southern French village survived the great plague

French ‘lost’ old master painting was on family’s living room wall

Paris Orsay museum opens new impressionist wing

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