The Academy of Fine Arts is a place of rites, characters and beautiful words.
But, this Wednesday, November 30, placed under the sign of youth, the sacred fire with libertarian tendencies and the bloody drama of
Charlie Hebdo
, pushed it even further with the installation session of Catherine Meurisse, 42, at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, saved by its delay on this fatal day.
Fine as a fencer, chignon and silhouette of a ballerina in her green dress, she embodies the arrival of a new genre in this sanctuary of thought.
Almost as tall as Érik Desmazières, engraver and director of the Marmottan Museum, which welcomes her to the new engraving and drawing section, she appeared very erect, hiding her emotion under a smile and the elastic flexibility of a cartoon.
This feather of the comic strip is
"the youngest under the Dome, the youngest of the five academies and the youngest of the Institut de France"
, underlined the composer Laurent Petitgirard, his perpetual secretary, under the…
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