Essonne: the little-known history of the priory of Saint-Hilaire, where Picasso created his first monumental statue. The Étampes-histoire association revealed the buried past of this site, which was a cultural and artistic hotspot from the 1950s to the 1990s with artists such as Picasso, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque and Francis Bacon.

During an exceptional conference, the Étamps-Histoire association lifted the veil.