Michel Pastoureau, historian: “A Roman who arrived in 2024 would be surprised to see so much navy blue” The French medievalist has spent recent years tracing the history of colors. According to him, the tone of this year, “dark, worrying and not really joyful”, is gray.
“I had chromatic whims,” he says. ‘Ivanhoe’, by Walter Scott, which he read, amazed, at the age of eight, by…