France gives €4 million to the arts to cover emergency losses

France gives €4 million to the arts to cover emergency losses

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norman lebrecht

November 19, 2015

The French culture minister Fleur Pellerin has announced in the l’Assemblée Nationale that she has set aside 3.5 million Euros to help venues that were forced to cancel performance in the present state of emergency and half a million for rights organisations to cover creative artist losses.

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Comments

  • V.Lind says:

    Wow. In the middle of what they are involved in…just wow.

  • Richard says:

    They must feel ashamed of their previous pathetic support of the arts, that’s why ! (see the scandalous documentary with Hollande’s advice to Fleur Pellerin, ministre of Culture here http://www.programme-tv.net/news/tv/72247-un-temps-de-president-france-3-quand-francois-hollande-conseille-fleur-pellerin-nouvelle-ministre-de-la-culture-video/

    … not to mention they scorn for classical music in particular (Dutilleux scandals).

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