WRITTEN IN FRENCH
A documentary album co-published with the Musée du Louvre, with a preface by Laurence des Cars, President and Director of the Louvre Museum.
Reissue of Rose Valland, the spy of the Jeu de Paume (Rose Valland, l'espionne du Jeu de Paume) (2009) with a new format; a new cover; a modernized...
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WRITTEN IN FRENCH
A documentary album co-published with the Musée du Louvre, with a preface by Laurence des Cars, President and Director of the Louvre Museum.
Reissue of Rose Valland, the spy of the Jeu de Paume (Rose Valland, l'espionne du Jeu de Paume) (2009) with a new format; a new cover; a modernized interior model with text adapted to a youth readership; and a documentary notebook on the restitution of the works.
September 1940. Paris is occupied by the Nazis. Rose Valland, then curator at the Jeu de Paume museum, watched helplessly as the works of art that the Reich soldiers stored in this museum were looted before sending them to Germany. Determined to save this precious heritage which risks being destroyed or disappearing forever, Rose Valland then joins the Civil Resistance. At the risk of her life and out of love for art, she secretly follows the trail of the stolen paintings...
Age : 9/12
French
104 pages
Gulf Stream éditeur / Louvre éditions
Collection : Histoire en images
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