Fancy cocktail and Mécénat on campus

For Le Plus Grand Musée de France, a new group project as much as a national one

This Thursday evening 3rd of December, our beloved campus was crowded with hundreds of Rémois, sciences-pistes from all campuses, and various personalities involved in this newly launched project, “Le plus Grad Musée de France”, in the honor of the fundraising –and ‘appel au Mécénat’ if me may say so –to contribute to the restoration of the paintings chosen by a couple of students.

For those who are not aware of this project and its aim… a couple of words on its motivations and purposes might help.

First and foremost, let’s not forget that Le Plus Grand Musée de France is a campaign that was created by La Sauvegarde de l’Art Francais in 2013. Basically, in those numerous villages and tiny churches that you often see when riding along the French countryside, many are the hidden historical treasures and artistic jewels forgotten under the dust of an attic. Those pieces very often realized by great masters of Painting or sculpture, should therefore find their place in the most renowned museums of the nation. Just imagine the wealth of the French patrimony if you take into account those 36000 neglected communes! Consequently the goal of Le plus Grand Musée de France is the following : search for those endangered masterpieces and look for a Mécène to allow for its restauration, in order to exhibit it and bring to light its full beauty to the public.

Following the logic of teaching and transmitting the patrimonial pride from generation to generation, students from l’Ecole du Louvres and Sciences Po (Master Affaires Publiques) have been enrolled in the project.

Now that you know everything, here come some of the paintings chosen by Sciences Po undergarduate students from all our disseminated campuses and that were presented to the Reims public for potential help and interest in financial participation for the restauration of those decrepit –yet of high symbolical and Artistic value –works. Of course, all this was realized around Champaign, French petits-fours and charming cocktail atmosphere in our magnificent Old refectory.

Campus de Dijon: Présentation de la Croix à l’Enfant Jésus, Tassel, XVIIème s.

Campus du Havre : Le Christ et la Samaritaine, Léon Viardot, 1854

Campus de Menton : Vierge de Miséricorde, Louis Bréa, 1485

Campus de Nancy : Paire de Bénitiers, Cristallerie Daum Nancy, 1922 and Ciboire de Gerbévillier, Maison Martin et Dejean, 1838-1846

Campus de Paris : L’adoration des bergers, XVIIème s.

Campus de Poitiers : Saint Jean-Baptiste dans le désert, 1838-1848

Campus de Reims (!!!) : L’incendie de la Cathédrale de Reims, Jean-Joseph Enders, XXème siècle, right next to our classrooms, in the Saint Maurice Church !

Our big thanks and bravos to our campus team that has done a great deal of research and work and best of luck to find a wealthy owner of a Maison de Champagne to help them restore their selected master piece: Cyrille Amand, Alexandre Feuilleuse, Beatrice Clair, Adèle Gillot, Gwendoline Houette.

If you would like to know more on this project, make sure to check out their website: http://leplusgrandmuseedefrance.com/

And for the time being… we only have to wait to see the restored the painting and visit it in the museum where they will be given a brand new life!

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