Question 12090 — cultural heritage

Summary

Ms. Tiffany Joncour questions the Minister of Culture about the particularly opaque sale of a major work by Gustave Courbet to a Qatari buyer, revealed by the press. This sale, carried out with disturbing discretion, constitutes a heritage scandal and seriously questions the Government's conception of the protection of French culture. While Gustave Courbet is one of the most emblematic painters of the artistic history of France, this operation gives the feeling that the national heritage can be sold off to the highest bidder, without transparency, without public debate and without consideration for the general interest or for the right of the French to maintain control of their cultural heritage. The MP asks him why the Ministry of Culture allowed such a transfer to take place under these conditions, what personal responsibilities she intends to assume in this matter and what explanations she finally intends to provide to the French on the guarantees, clearly failing, supposed to prevent the progressive dilution of our artistic heritage for the benefit of foreign interests. She also asks him if the Government intends to put an end to this logic of cultural renunciation and take immediate measures so that such operations can no longer be repeated.

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