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François de Mazières: “Heritage must be attached to the Ministry of Culture, not to Tourism!”

2023-04-14T17:24:46.129Z


TRIBUNE - The Mayor of Versailles reacts to the proposal made by Stéphane Bern to link heritage to Tourism. Separating heritage from cultural creation would amount to accepting a break between the past and the present, where on the contrary it would be necessary to build links...


In the

Sunday Journal

, which devotes its front page to "Threats to our monuments", Stéphane Bern calls for the constitution of a State Secretariat in charge of Heritage with the Minister of Tourism.

The defense made by Stéphane Bern of heritage is remarkable and his tireless work worthy of praise.

On the other hand, what an astonishing idea to attach a possible State Secretariat for Heritage to the Ministry of Tourism, and not to the Ministry of Culture.

Admittedly, we hear the reasoning which consists in saying that heritage is a driving force in the attractiveness of our territories.

We also imagine that this ardent defender of heritage thinks that it is better to be under the supervision of the Minister of Tourism, who belongs to the sphere of the Ministry of Finance, to obtain subsidies.

Separating the heritage of Rue de Valois would be an admission of weakness of our cultural ambition and a major break in our institutional history.

However, separating the heritage from Rue de Valois would be an admission of weakness in our cultural ambition and a major break in our institutional history.

The cultural administration…

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Source: lefigaro

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