the nude

L’est Éclair, which translates as ‘the lightning’, is our local weekly newspaper. It is a good source of what’s happening and what’s on in the area.

This weeks mini headlines, we thought, were particularly provocative - ‘a nude in the Camille-Claudel museum has been censored by instagram’ - that story definitely needs a read! It refers to an historical statue of a naked man that the museum posted with a short description, but Instagram got something in this story very wrong and decided it needed to be censored. Daft, but a great way of grabbing a headline for what we believe is a rather marvellous museum.

Then there’s the delightful story about how a Playmobil exhibition on Napoleon brought ‘wings’ to the little ‘Napoleon museum’ in Brienne-Le-Chateau, and doubled their visitor numbers this year. What a wonderful way to bring history to life for children.