Tens of thousands sign petition against France loaning Bayeux Tapestry to British Museum | The Independent https://share.google/lb2DOUYt59sc05XiH
Hardly an avalanche of numbers but an interesting discussion....
https://share.google/xJRxPKuQRC4W7EuaV
And here
Well, for the next 2 years the Tapestry was due to be removed from its current location due to the building of a new display facility. Signatories of this petition seem to think it would be better to move it into a locked cupboard where no one can see it rather than, God forbid, letting les rosbifs gaze upon it. It's the sort of contorted logic one must expect from the nation that claims to have invented the Age of Reason!
Of course, it could be nothing to do any of the above, but simply another way for the French public to express their irritation with President Macron regarding the high-handed way he goes about making decisions on everything from national treasures to state pensions. Understandable and a lot more restrained than wearing a hi-vis gilet or storming the Bastille.
In the meantime, we should respond by taking away our Lewis Chess Set and sundry other toys that were due to be lent to various Normandy museums.
:P
Burning sheep will be next....
Little do they suspect that I substituted a copy drawn by my kids years ago, and now have the original tapestry on my loungeroom wall. I have one end hung from my statue of David whilst the St Mark horses prop up the other. Far better use of antiquities I reckon. And it saves the French and Brits from bickering.
I do hope you give it a wash now and again...
Quote from: stevenneate on Sep 01, 2025, 04:04 AMLittle do they suspect that I substituted a copy drawn by my kids years ago, and now have the original tapestry on my loungeroom wall.
Or maybe some of them do know, and now they're worried about the British Museum noticing?
Good point. Maybe the Bayeux curators have noticed the crayon rubbing off?
the horror....