Staging the great history of France: the new City of History, inaugurated on January 17 at La Défense, slips somewhere between the wax paintings of the Grévin Museum and the immersive exhibitions organized in national monuments.
Behind this new 3000 m2 "technological place" is the host and writer Franck Ferrand, voice of Radio Classique and columnist on CNews, who has long been "arguing" with Stéphane Bern about the art of interesting the general public in the past. .
"My idea is precisely to manage to seduce the greatest number, and allow them to reclaim their history"
, he said simply.
But how to tell a thousand years of French epic, without being simplistic or even subject to caution?
In writing his project, the director of the Cité relied on historians to avoid any oddities.
He also took care of the sets and scenography.
We owe them to a duo: the decorator Jacques Garcia for the reception areas and Thierry Rétif (Puy du Fou…
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