The name of the former president has been added to the name of the Orsay Museum, one of the most prestigious museums in Paris. Valerie Giscard d’Estaing, who passed away on December 2, 2020.
“The name of President Valerie Giscard d’Estaing will be added to the name of the public institution of the Orsay Museum and the Orangerie Museum,” Culture Minister Rocelyn Basello said in a statement.
R. Basello said that Giscard d’Estaing, who was president of the French Republic from 1974 to 1981, as reported by AMPE, “had worked with determination and commitment for the birth of the museum and had watched its development.”
Basello paid tribute to “a man of culture who had a passion for 19th-century art and literature” and a “move of great courage in heritage and architecture, which simultaneously concerned the preservation of a historical monument and its transformation into museum”.
The museum, dedicated to 19th-century art and housed in a former train station, was inaugurated in 1986 by President François Mitterrand.
Last Thursday (25/3), the National Assembly unanimously approved a motion for a resolution to add the name of the former President of the Republic to that of the public institution of the Orsay and Oranzeri Museums.
In 2010, the Orangerie Museum became associated with Orsay Museum. Oranzeri, located in Kerameikos, hosts, among other things, the large set of water lilies (Nympheas), by the painter Claude Monet.
The decision was made in cooperation with the family of the former president, the ministry clarified.
After the National Museum of Contemporary Art named after Georges Pompidou, the new National Library of France (BNF) dedicated to François Mitterrand and the Museum of Ms Branley to which the name Jacques Chirac was added, another former president is honored with him the way he acts in favor of culture and art.
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