On April 9, 2018, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Ben Salman (MBS), was received by Emmanuel Macron.
According to two senior officials who speak on condition of anonymity, the table was on the menu of discussions.
This is what they say at the end of a documentary by Antoine Vitkine, which will be broadcast on France 5 on April 13 and which tells the tribulations of
Salvator Mundi,
acquired $ 450.3 million by MBS in 2017 as a Leonardo da Vinci, thus becoming the most expensive work in the world.
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The questions of defense, intelligence, economy have been addressed.
As well as a cultural component.
France was going to cooperate in the enhancement of the Saudi oasis of al-Ula, an exceptional heritage made up of desert landscapes and Nabataean tombs carved into the rock.
This policy of openness and post-oil diversification would materialize on the spot by the creation of several museums and a troglodyte hotel signed Jean Nouvel.
In return, in Paris, the Institut du
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