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French Mayor Opens Museums, Defying Coronavirus Orders

Category: COVID-19

“Right now, you can go and buy lingerie! But how come museums — something that is paramount for social cohesion, for education, for entertainment — are still forbidden?”

–Frédéric Jousset, board member, the Louvre

Cultural institutions in France have been clamoring to reopen for months. They found an unlikely champion in a far-right civic official in Perpignan who has defied the national government and passed a decree allowing the city’s four museums to welcome visitors for the first time in over three months.

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