Only after it had ended did the French Ministry of Culture make an official announcement of his death.

ECONOMIST: Henri Cartier-Bresson

The French Ministry of Culture wants to relocate this laboratory, as well as the Louvre's storerooms, to a site about 50km (30 miles) outside Paris in a new facility to be built in Cergy-Pontoise.

ECONOMIST: The da Vinci method

The French culture ministry has a list of "banned" words on its website, including blog and email.

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