For several weeks, the debate around the succession of Jean-Luc Martinez, president and director of the Louvre, has been raging.
While the latter campaigned vigorously to be renamed for a period of three years, another pitched battle, although less open, was organized with those who would like to take his place.
Until then the most visited museum in the world, and arguably the most famous, the Louvre still arouses the envy of the best curators in the country.
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This time around, the fight is all the more fierce as the government has its hand that trembles.
Officially, the mandate of Jean-Luc Martinez ran until Wednesday, but we learned that he was now occupying his position
"ad interim"
for an indefinite period.
This legal possibility, which aims to keep someone in office until a decision is made on their succession - one way or another - is widely used by this government as well as by those before it.
Cruel portrait
Besides Jean-Luc
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