The famous orange-red brick of Albi fends off the onslaught of the heat wave.
It is cool at the Palais de la Berbie.
But, if we willingly linger between these thick walls, within this episcopal complex, the 13th century crown of the city with its French garden laid out as if by defiance directly above the Tarn, it is not only because of the temperature or the ambient Occitan charm.
This is mainly because the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum is located there.
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The institution celebrates its centenary this summer.
It was in fact born from the donation finalized after the First World War by the parents of the painter, a cousin and a gallery owner friend.
Paris not wanting some 1,000 works left by the artist when he died in 1901, the municipality finally accepted them.
He took it well, because, since then, if Albi shines internationally, it is largely thanks to his child.
For the occasion, an original confrontation between Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Edgar Degas (1834-1917) is proposed over nearly 500 m²...
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