In early 2018 Emmanuel Macron launched the idea of an exceptional loan of the Bayeux Tapestry to Great Britain.
An agreement in principle was even concluded on this subject, validated with enthusiasm by the then Prime Minister Theresa May.
The latter wished with this symbol to temper the implementation of Brexit.
Such a loan could also restore its image.
Because already, twice, in 1953 for the coronation of Elizabeth II and in 1966 in view of the 900th anniversary of the battle of Hastings, London had failed to obtain it.
This time again, faced with the objections of French curators who all recalled the extreme fragility of these eleven panels - 70 meters of linen embroidered at the end of the 11th century and praising the conquest of England by the Norman Guillaume in 1066 -, the project quietly deactivated.
This does not prevent today, five and a half years later, some of the most nationalistic English cultural leaders from harboring a grudge about this affair...
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