Specialist in architecture, Alexandre Gady is the author of numerous remarkable works, in particular he published
Le Louvre et les Tuileries.
The making of a masterpiece
(Paris, Musée du Louvre / Le Passage, 2015), Prix François-Victor Noury from the Institut de France.
His last published book is
Le Val-de-Grâce
, co
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written with Claude Mignot (Éd. De l'Esplanade, 2019).
The 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune is currently causing controversy.
By transforming the long-awaited and legitimate commemoration into a militant celebration, the French left pretends to be astonished: but how could it be otherwise?
A civil war, thousands of deaths, a capital in flames, all under the amused eye of the Prussians who had just crushed France… the Commune is not, cannot be, a “cold” object: at the same as the Terror, the wars of Vendée, the Vichy regime and colonization, it questions our relationship to the past, the lessons that we draw from it - or not - to establish a philosophy
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