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Avignon: An Employee of a Museum Sells Works to Buy Cocaine

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In Avignon, an employee of the 57-year-old Calvet Museum was arrested on Thursday, June 12, 2025, as La Provence reports the following day. Salaried for nearly twenty years in the works conservation department, he was filmed by video surveillance cameras stealing old objects from the museum's reserves. According to the first elements of the investigation, this ride had lasted for at least three weeks.Alerted by a security officer watching the re…See the Story

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Vaucluse. Murder of Police Officer Éric Masson: "The Mexican," One of the Escaped Convicts, Has Been Arrested.

Ismaël Boujti, 26, was sentenced to two years in prison on March 1, 2024, in the Masson trial, for harboring the shooter.See the Story

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CULTURE Mozart's Requiem According to Débora Waldman, Accessible to All Senses

Mozart's Requiem is one of those few works that must have been heard at least once in his life in concert. Mouais... You have understood, we are not a fan of this score that is sorely lacking in emotion and rhythm. Uncompleted Yet, this Friday evening, almost full room and cheers at the Opéra Grand Avignon to hear the Orchestre national Avignon-Provence and the choirs - Choir of the Opéra Grand Avignon (ed. Alan Woodbridge) and Èkhô, chamber cho…Read Article

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Avignon: a Young Man Held at the Psychiatric Hospital in Montfavet Despite a Court Decision

Despite an immediate release ordered by the Nîmes Court of Appeal, a 19-year-old Vauclusian remained detained for more than 15 hours against his will at the Montfavet hospital.Avignon · AvignonRead Article

Laurence Des Cars: "The Louvre Collections Must Be Presented Throughout the Territory"

After establishing partnerships with Avignon and other medium-sized cities, Laurence des Cars, the president of the Louvre, wants to expand loans in regions during the expansion of her museum.Avignon · AvignonRead Article

Rachel Legrain-Trapani: When the Police Arrested Geneviève De Fontenay... for a Selfie!

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Becoming Miss France on December 9, 2006, Rachel Legrain-Trapani did not expect to see her life upset by a scarf and a crown. Almost twenty years later, she staged with her very first one woman show, Not if Miss that, presented at the Festival Off of Avignon. An intimate, funny and touching show in which she goes back to this unexpected victory, the doubts, the projectors, the unlikely anecdotes and this constant pressure to be perfect. Between …Avignon · AvignonRead Article

Killing of Police Officer Eric Masson in Avignon: the Lodger of the Murderer Arrested After a Month of Cavalry

The suspect, an accomplice to the policeman's murderer, was considered to have been on the run for a month because he had not returned from a leave.Avignon · AvignonRead Article

The Persians, the Eschyle Tragedy Seen by Gwenaël Morin

For the past three years, the Avignon Festival has invited Gwenaël Morin to create a show as part of the Demonter les ramparts project to finish the bridge. As this joyfully provocative title suggests, it is a matter of finding in what makes it impossible to build together. In previous editions, the director met with performers who, according to his own words, came to help him make theatre. It is with them that he goes back to the assault of one…Avignon · AvignonRead Article

CULTURE Avignon Off : Solitude of a Guardian Angel, Chronicle of a Collapse

Anchored in the heart of the daily life of others, this guardian angel perceives everything. As a spider in the center of his canvas watching the sons loosen. Chronicle of a collapse Welcome to Tony's universe, guardian of the building, but above all guardian angel of humanity. In a minimalist enclosure, it's a whole society that invites itself into his dressing room. Written by Aude de Tocqueville from dozens of testimonies of guards of buildin…Avignon · AvignonRead Article

A Biker Goes Unwittingly Into the Crowd at the Sou'Papes Festival, Eight Injured People Including One Seriously

The rider of a motorcycle lost control of his equipment during a show this Saturday evening at the Sou'Papes festival at the exhibition centre in Avignon. Eight people were injured, one of them seriously. About 30 spectators are in shock.Avignon · AvignonRead Article

INTERVIEW Patrick Zard: "We Pay Close Attention to What We Are Presenting"

Objective Gard. Patrick Zard, you have marked the general public with appearances in Les sous-doués" by Claude Zidi or the television show La classe avec Fabrice, but it is well on stage that you have accomplished yourself fully? Patrick Zard. Yes, I am a theatre actor. But I continue to play! There is also a play Les palmes de M. Schultz, created in 1989, which I played 1300 times. I later came back to the Michel Theatre in Paris in 2013, then …Avignon · AvignonRead Article

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