President Macron’s pledge to rescue “jewel of the nation” meets scepticism and derision amid the country's fiscal squeeze

The skulls of King Toera and two warriors were held at Paris's Natural History Museum since 1899

Serop Simonian was allowed to leave Paris and return to his hometown of Hamburg following a French magistrate’s decision that was subsequently overturned on appeal

Officials and archaeologists have said the small object, which was auctioned by Lyon and Turnbull for €22,500 earlier this month, is a copy

Claude Guéant claims the €500,000 in question was raised through the sale of two paintings yet prosecutors found evidence that the works were sold by Christie’s in 1990 for less than €20,000

Restorers were contaminated by lead dust when they scrubbed down the sculptures and decoration of the royal opera in the Château de Versailles

The Académie des beaux-arts warns against threats to “freedom of research and creation" as government and local council spending on the arts is slashed

Emmanuel Macron has thrown his weight behind a grandiose €800m renovation plan, including building a subterranean complex around Leonardo's Mona Lisa

The Paris museum’s leadership is hoping to raise money for a grand project involving reimagined exhibition and hospitality spaces and a subterranean tunnel under the museum to connect it all

Heritage organisations remain opposed to President Macron's plans to replace chapel windows at the newly reopened cathedral

Italian investor Nanni Bassani Antivari secured the still-life Cut Melon with a €26.7m bid in June, but has yet to send the auction house any money

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President-Elect Donald Trump were in attendance as President Macron presided over the reopening of the famed Parisian monument

Institution in historic hospital development could exhibit the heads of the kings of Judea from the cathedral's medieval statues

The five-year restoration of the cathedral has cemented the reign of the 19th-century architect, but his methods may not meet modern standards

Six stand accused of negligence causing involuntary harm, including the culture ministry’s heritage operator, for its role in overseeing the restoration of the Château de Versailles

Paris prosecutor has requested that the Swiss art dealer and his business partner Olivier Thomas should face charges relating to the disappearance of dozens of works more than a decade ago

Rachida Dati has framed the potential move as a means of protecting French heritage sites, yet it has been met with opposition from the Catholic church

Meanwhile Dmitry Rybolovlev, with whom Bouvier settled a high-profile legal saga last year, has had charges against him dismissed

The Paris fair's third edition will welcome 195 galleries—41 more than last year—from 42 countries

Two years after her appointment, the star curator described her early exit from the Paris museum as “a relief”

President Macron’s flagship youth scheme receives twice as much public funding as the Louvre

Despite legislative relaxation, little progress has been made in returning art stolen during the Second World War since the 1950s

More than 46 million people flocked to French museums, monuments and stately homes last year—but social disparities are on the rise, new report says

President Emmanuel Macron wants to replace the Paris cathedral’s 19th-century windows, even though they were not damaged in 2019 fire

The kitsch, art-filled event and the reaction that followed highlighted the deep fractures within the country—where support for the far right has grown

After a successful campaign to help block the far-right National Rally from winning a majority, arts bodies, much like the rest of the country, face an uncertain future

Idea to place the painting in a separate space at the Louvre would reportedly cost around €500m

Experts have criticised the exhibition at the Musée de La Vie Romantique for presenting works as autograph with little evidence

Supreme auditing body Cour des comptes judges Paris museum's five-year renovation project as “underfunded and insufficiently piloted”

Former head of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen takes over at a time of central government cuts to cultural institutions in Paris