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Versailles has a new king: who is Christophe Leribault, the next president of the castle?

2024-02-12T19:04:50.308Z

Highlights: Christophe Leribault, 60, from the Musée d'Orsay, will be appointed head of the Palace of Versailles this Wednesday, February 13. The Orsay teams are said to be almost in mourning, as if they had lost a boss who always knew how to make himself loved. The surprise is that if Catherine Pgard, 69, who preceded him as director of the royal estate, had been past retirement age for a while, no one anymore thought that Emmanuel Macron would find a replacement for her before September next year.


Christophe Leribault, 60, from the Musée d'Orsay, will be appointed head of the Palace of Versailles this Wednesday, February 13. Portrait of a


Christophe Leribault loves cats and his totally unexpected departure from the Musée d'Orsay for the Château de Versailles suits his appearance as an endearing feline, benevolent but sometimes difficult to follow.

So much so that the Orsay teams are said to be almost in mourning, as if they had lost a boss who always knew how to make himself loved and whom they did not expect to see disappear in a gust of wind, barely more than two years after his arrival, in a world where frequently renewed mandates easily reach triple.

Le Figaro revealed on Friday February 9 the transfer of the head of the Orsay Museum to the presidency of the Palace of Versailles, which will be formalized this Wednesday in the Council of Ministers.

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The surprise is that if Catherine Pgard, 69, who preceded him as director of the royal estate, had been past retirement age for a while, no one anymore thought that Emmanuel Macron would find a replacement for her before September next year, so as not to jostle the troops before the Olympic Games: the royal estate of Versailles will host the horse riding and heptathlon events this summer and the marathon will cross the city.

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Source: leparis

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