This was to be my second meeting with Philippe Perfettini, historian at the Fesch Museum – where dates, details, stories/facts, emotions and tones were to pour out with a natural ease and where I found myself, once again on the bumpy road through history .. Let us wander back in time once again to 1799, when Napoleon came to power as First Consul.
With Chaptal as Minister in 1801, they decide to create the Beaux Arts museums in Provence, and 15 French cities all in all, i.e: Marseille and Lyon, but none at this moment in Ajaccio, whereupon Lucien Bonaparte starts sending books to Corsica, allowing Cardinal Fesch to look after them.
The Cardinal questions himself as to future possibilities for youth in Corsica, realising there is nothing other than professional activity in agriculture and ...
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