"Oath of the ancestors". The painting had been found in the rubble of the National Palace. The painting has undergone major tears but restoration is still possible.
French firefighters had saved many works of art and paintings of the presidential palace that has partially collapsed in the earthquake of January 12, including "Oath of the Ancestors," an oil painting four meters by three dating from 1822 and directed by the painter Guadeloupe Guillaume Guillon-Lethière representing the historic meeting between the black general Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a lieutenant of Toussaint Louverture, and the Chief of the mulattos of Saint-Dominique, Alexandre Pétion. This meeting marked the beginning of the process that led to Haiti's independence in 1804.
The Center for Research and Restoration of Museums of France, is familiar with this art piece for having previously restored it at the Louvre in 1998.
Who is Frederick Mitterand? Sex scandal involving M. Frederic Mitterand?
Born in Paris, he is the nephew of François Mitterrand, who was the President of France from 1981 to 1995, and the son of engineer Robert Mitterrand[1] (1915-2002) and Edith Cahier, the niece of Eugène Deloncle, the co-founder of "La Cagoule".
He went to the Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris and studied history and geography at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, and political science at Sciences Po. He taught economics, history and geography at EABJM from 1968 to 1971. In 1978, he was a film critic at J'informe. From 1971 to 1986, he run several art film cinemas in Paris (Olympic Palace, Entrepôt and Olympic-Entrepôt). He also had roles in a number of films, and was in the 1980s active as a producer and director in TV productions.
In June 2008, Mitterrand was appointed as the director of the French Academy in Rome by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
A year later, on 23 June 2009, Mitterrand was appointed to the French government as the Minister of Culture and Communications.
Sex scandal involving M. Frederic Mitterand.
Frédéric Mitterrand admitted to paying for sex with 'young boys’ in Thailand.
Frédéric Mitterrand, France’s culture minister, was under pressure to resign after it emerged
that he had admitted to paying “young boys” for sexual acts while on holiday in Thailand.
By Henry Samuel in Paris
Published: 9:52PM BST 07 Oct 2009
The revelations in his 2005 autobiography “The Bad Life” have come back to haunt
Mr Mitterrand after he emerged as one of the most vociferous defenders of Roman Polanski, the
film director currently detained in Switzerland in connection with an outstanding conviction for
unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl in the US in 1977.
In his book, Mr Mitterrand, the nephew of the late Socialist president François Mitterrand, wrote:
“I got into the habit of paying for boys...All these rituals of the market for youths, the slave
market excite me enormously.
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