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French Museum Invites Nude Visitors To Explore History Of Naturism In Europe
A museum in southern French city Marseille is inviting visitors to discover Europe's relationship to the naturist lifestyle by wandering its halls in the nude.
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2 Women Make "MeToo" Graffiti On Nude Painting At Paris Museum, Case Filed
A top French museum has filed a police complaint after two women spray-painted a famous 19th-century painting by Gustave Courbet which it had loaned to another gallery, official said Friday.
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''In Complete Awe'': R Madhavan's Fan Moment With PM Modi And French President
The actor took to Instagram to share pictures from the event and penned a long post appreciating both world leaders.
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Italy's Uffizi Museum Sues French Fashion Brand Over Botticelli Bottoms Row
The Uffizi museum in Florence said Monday it was suing French fashion house Jean Paul Gaultier for "unauthorised use" of Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus", its Italian Renaissance masterpiece.
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Fourth Wave Hits France, Here's How It's Reacting
French cinemas, museums and sports venues began asking visitors Wednesday to furnish proof of Covid-19 vaccination or a negative test as the country, which is in the throes of a fourth wave of infections.
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French Museum Sorry After Woman Forced To Cover Neckline
The Quai d'Orsay art museum in Paris has apologised to a woman after agents refused to let her in until she covered up a low-cut dress.
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Paris' Louvre Museum Shuts Due To Coronavirus
The closure of the museum, which had 9.6 million visitors last year, came after the French government banned all gatherings of over 100 people to limit the spread of the virus.
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Man Breaks Into French Museum, Threatens To Make It "Hell"
The police in southern France on Wednesday detained a man who had broken into a museum overnight and threatened to turn it into a "hell", provoking a four-hour standoff, authorities said.
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Notre-Dame Cathedral Artworks To Be Transferred To Louvre Museum
The artworks evacuated from Notre-Dame Cathedral during the blaze on Monday will be transferred to the Louvre Museum, the French Culture Minister Franck Riester told reporters.
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Man Gets Life In Brussels Terror Attack, Tells Jury "Life Goes On"
French citizen Mehdi Nemmouche was sentenced to life in jail on Monday for shooting dead four people in a Jewish museum in 2014, telling the court "life goes on" in his last words to the jury.
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Man Who Returned From Syria To Attack Europe Faces Trial This Week
Mehdi Nemmouche stands accused of carrying out Europe's first attack by a terrorist returning from the war in Syria. But his journey from a French foster home to a Brussels court began not in a Middle Eastern desert but in a run-down industrial town.
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Hope Diamond, Mined In India, Was Born At Hellish Depths Of Earth: Study
Before the massive Hope Diamond came to rest in a Smithsonian exhibit, before the gem passed among wealthy owners and thieves and French royals, before it acquired its cursed reputation, before it was mined in India, the diamond was born at hellish depths beneath Earth's crust.
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Rare Skull Of Elephant Ancestor Unveiled In France
A French farmer kept quiet for years after stumbling across the skull of an extinct ancestor of the elephant near the Pyrenees mountains, the Natural History Museum of Toulouse has told AFP.
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After Nude Yoga, French Nudists To Go Buff At Theme Park
After a nude yoga class in a Paris park and a "no clothes day" at the city's trendiest art museum, hundreds of naturists are due to descend on a theme park near the French capital Sunday for a spot of trampolining.
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French Museum Discovers Half Of Its Collection Are Fakes
An art museum in the south of France has discovered that more than half of its collection consists of fakes, in what the local mayor on Sunday described as a "catastrophe" for the region.
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French Museum Invites Nude Visitors To Explore History Of Naturism In Europe
A museum in southern French city Marseille is inviting visitors to discover Europe's relationship to the naturist lifestyle by wandering its halls in the nude.
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2 Women Make "MeToo" Graffiti On Nude Painting At Paris Museum, Case Filed
A top French museum has filed a police complaint after two women spray-painted a famous 19th-century painting by Gustave Courbet which it had loaned to another gallery, official said Friday.
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''In Complete Awe'': R Madhavan's Fan Moment With PM Modi And French President
The actor took to Instagram to share pictures from the event and penned a long post appreciating both world leaders.
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Italy's Uffizi Museum Sues French Fashion Brand Over Botticelli Bottoms Row
The Uffizi museum in Florence said Monday it was suing French fashion house Jean Paul Gaultier for "unauthorised use" of Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus", its Italian Renaissance masterpiece.
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Fourth Wave Hits France, Here's How It's Reacting
French cinemas, museums and sports venues began asking visitors Wednesday to furnish proof of Covid-19 vaccination or a negative test as the country, which is in the throes of a fourth wave of infections.
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French Museum Sorry After Woman Forced To Cover Neckline
The Quai d'Orsay art museum in Paris has apologised to a woman after agents refused to let her in until she covered up a low-cut dress.
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Paris' Louvre Museum Shuts Due To Coronavirus
The closure of the museum, which had 9.6 million visitors last year, came after the French government banned all gatherings of over 100 people to limit the spread of the virus.
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Man Breaks Into French Museum, Threatens To Make It "Hell"
The police in southern France on Wednesday detained a man who had broken into a museum overnight and threatened to turn it into a "hell", provoking a four-hour standoff, authorities said.
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Notre-Dame Cathedral Artworks To Be Transferred To Louvre Museum
The artworks evacuated from Notre-Dame Cathedral during the blaze on Monday will be transferred to the Louvre Museum, the French Culture Minister Franck Riester told reporters.
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Man Gets Life In Brussels Terror Attack, Tells Jury "Life Goes On"
French citizen Mehdi Nemmouche was sentenced to life in jail on Monday for shooting dead four people in a Jewish museum in 2014, telling the court "life goes on" in his last words to the jury.
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Man Who Returned From Syria To Attack Europe Faces Trial This Week
Mehdi Nemmouche stands accused of carrying out Europe's first attack by a terrorist returning from the war in Syria. But his journey from a French foster home to a Brussels court began not in a Middle Eastern desert but in a run-down industrial town.
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Hope Diamond, Mined In India, Was Born At Hellish Depths Of Earth: Study
Before the massive Hope Diamond came to rest in a Smithsonian exhibit, before the gem passed among wealthy owners and thieves and French royals, before it acquired its cursed reputation, before it was mined in India, the diamond was born at hellish depths beneath Earth's crust.
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Rare Skull Of Elephant Ancestor Unveiled In France
A French farmer kept quiet for years after stumbling across the skull of an extinct ancestor of the elephant near the Pyrenees mountains, the Natural History Museum of Toulouse has told AFP.
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After Nude Yoga, French Nudists To Go Buff At Theme Park
After a nude yoga class in a Paris park and a "no clothes day" at the city's trendiest art museum, hundreds of naturists are due to descend on a theme park near the French capital Sunday for a spot of trampolining.
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French Museum Discovers Half Of Its Collection Are Fakes
An art museum in the south of France has discovered that more than half of its collection consists of fakes, in what the local mayor on Sunday described as a "catastrophe" for the region.
