US EditionNice Will Be Able to Keep Its Statue of Jeanne D'arc
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The monumental statue of medieval heroine will be able to remain in front of the Niçois church which bears its name. Administrative justice contradicted on appeal a decision that forced the city to cancel the public procurement of its order.
On Thursday 17 July, the Administrative Court of Appeal of Marseille overturned a previous judgment of the administrative court of Nice which demanded the withdrawal of the work, reports Nice Presse, thus confirming an information of the Figaro. The case had taken a very political turn. In question: the purchase of the sculpture for 170,000 euros by the public administration of the French Parks, presided over by the deputy mayor Gaël Nofri. The …
At the end of an endless political-judicial series, the administrative court of appeal of Marseille validated, on Thursday, the order of the statue of Jeanne d'Arc in Nice. The work, threatened with debunking, could remain in place.
The removal of religious monuments or saints currently installed in public places is a specific practice of French freethinkers. One need only recall the famous cases of the John Paul II monument in Ploermel, Brittany, or the St. Michael the Archangel in Sables-d'Olonne. After unfavorable rulings, monuments are generally moved to private property, but such a ploy is not always successful. One of the most recent such cases involved the Jeanne d'D…
The debunking of a statue of Jeanne d'Arc in Nice, which became a point of crisis between the metropolis and the prefecture, was annulled on Thursday 17 July by the administrative court of appeal of Marseille. A doubt about the legality of the public procurement had prompted the former prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes to refer the matter to the court.
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franceinfo.frThe debunking of a monumental statue of Jeanne d'Arc, erected in the autumn of 2024 in Nice and becoming a point of stress between the metropolis and the Prefecture, was cancelled on Thursday by the Administrative Court of Appeal of Marseille. This file had begun with the construction of a parking lot...
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