Stubborn as a Breton… In Nantes, at the Château des ducs de Bretagne, its director since 2008, Bertrand Guillet, has reactivated an exhibition that we were desperate to see.
The one, first in France, on Genghis Khan.
It should be held from next October 14 to May 5, 2024. Initially, mounted mainly with the Museum of Inner Mongolia in Hohhot, China, it was to open on October 17, 2020. But the Covid had compromised it.
A new date had been set for the first half of 2021.
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Alas, having reached this deadline, Bertrand Guillet was forced to a second postponement, this time around October 2024, due to the hardening of the Chinese government against the Mongolian minority.
“At first, this hardening had the effect on our project of an injunction from the Chinese central authorities to remove from the exhibition elements of vocabulary (the words “Genghis Khan”, “empire” and “Mongol”).
Then, at the end of the summer, an announcement of changes to the content of the exhibition...
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