‘La tapisserie, c’est moi’: Macron accused of putting politics first in Bayeux tapestry loan | Bayeux tapestry

Bayeux Gblelen is so fragile that it is at risk of irreparable damage to carry it, French experts, Emmanuel Macron’u unique embroidery to England as a petition calling to reversed the “disaster” decision.

In July, the President of French French King’s King II in Hastings in 1066 in Fatih. Describing his victory against King Harold, approximately 1000 -year -old, 70 -meter -long woolen artwork will pass the channel next year.

For nine months of September 2026, his director Nicholas Cullinan needs to be exhibited in the British Museum, a symbol of a common history of History between England and France.

However, the French conservators working on embroidery say that it is essentially so fragile, and argues that Macron, the organizer of a campaign against the loan, ignores almost hunger expert advice for a great political gesture.

Orum I’m not against the loan of cultural works and I always liked England, ”he said. La tribune de l’rtA monthly art news website Petition Against Loan It was signed by about 62,000 people.

“But this is a completely political decision. Here is an extraordinary work of art, a completely unique historical document, a work that is not equivalent anywhere – and accepts which expert opinion cannot travel overwhelmingly. He is not complicated.”

Macron first proposed to borrow the Bayeux goblen to the UK – as previously requested by London and was rejected by Paris, II. For Elizabeth’s crown ceremony in 1953 and the 900th anniversary of the Hastings War in 1966 – in 2018.

The plan, which is considered to be a very important cultural proposal that can help maintain British ties even when preparing to leave the EU, is the plan established as bitter Brexit negotiations and the next cross -channel relations given.

After leaving Boris Johnson and Liz Truss Downing ST and accelerated with Keir Starmer’s EU “reset”, the relationship was rearmed as the relationship was gradually developed. The French authorities say that King Charles is also the “very supportive” in the instrumental and personally “very supportive”.

However, the loan agreement and Lewis Chessmen to celebrate the reconciliation between the channels that will include works from the Anglo-Saxon grave site Sutton Hoo, and Lewis Chessmen neglecting decades of warnings about the status of the goblen.

The fabric, which has been in a museum in Bayeux due to the closure of the next month for a two -year renewal since 1983, has been seriously weakened according to age, but experts were suspended from a rail rather than flat.

Some of the most damn arguments against the plan came from curators and restorers who gave information about their disbelief and concerns – on the condition of anonymity to Rykner.

Since exactly the goblen is accepted as very fragile to move away, complex Plans were already going on In order to remove and store the museum from the screen during the restructuring works, with a complete restoration to be followed after returning.

Im When we heard, we fell out of our chairs, ”he said. “The opposite of everything we prepare.”

Another, “Absolute fragility” in the form of any movement of any movement in the case of “absolute fragility” was full of risk, ”he said.

Now the embroidery will probably move at a distance of more than 500km (310 miles), before the most fragile, before the stabilizing primer has already been removed and restored ”.

Everyone stressed that thousands of existing weak spots would be stretched, each movement would be at risk of tears, and it seemed almost impossible to design a timely new system for the transport of the gobler.

“He’s overlooking our profession,” he said. “Not listening to us is like saying that we are useless.” Thalia Bajon Bouzid, a rare conservatory to talk to the public, said that any damage would be irreversible: “Tears would not be repaired because of authenticity.”

The fears of curators reflect many previous expert warnings. At an early date like 2018, Antoine Verney, the head curator of the Bayeux Museum, said that he could not “conceive”.

A report made by eight antique textile experts in 2020, 24.204 stains, 16,445 wrinkles, 9,646 deficiencies and 30 “non -stabilized” tears and a preliminary restoration work in 2021 were strongly proposed to carry from a long distance (more than one hour).

This study added: “The longer the micro-taklites occur, the higher the risk of appearing and irreversible changes, especially since there is no vibration-processing system that can eliminate all risk during transportation.

The following year another analysis reached the same result, According to Le Monde – However, he said that he was hidden except for the companies that sent a tender for a complete feasibility study for the proposed abolition of Goblen to London.

So far, the French government has hardly accepted the concerns of experts. In July, Macron came out of his own way to reject them by saying that France had found the best experts in the world perfectly in detail, and we decided why the loan was “impossible ,, but otherwise.

The President’s Project Special Advisor Philippe Bélaval insisted that the goblen was “absolutely irreversible ve and referred to a secret report that details which measures should be taken from the beginning of this year.

“Playing with words, Ry Rykner said. “Transportation was already decided, so It wasn’t the job of this report – We certainly don’t know anything about it – arguing against it. Any work of art can be carried. The question is, in which case will it come? “

Rykner was that the fact that the reality of the matter placed both the Great theater gesture and Macron’s politics on the protection of an extraordinarily vulnerable cultural heritage.

Someone tender documents related to creditRykner probably contained a mistake, but it included an explanatory error: “The loan of the Bayeux goblelen was given”, “by the President, the owner of the work…”

In the 17th century, Louis XIV, the Sun, said, ““ L’N état, c’est Moi ”(“ I am the state ”), Rykner said,“ La Tapisserie, c’est Moi. Ugly and people are starting to see why it should be stopped. “