Lecture : France and the Yuanming Yuan Palace

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Lecture: France and the Yuanming Yuan Palace. Art, war and religion.

托馬斯·格雷戈里（Thomas Grégory）教授的講座：有關法英對圓明園的劫掠。

This lecture explores the history of artistic exchanges between France and China, centered around the Yuanming Yuan palace, near Beijing.

In the 18th century, French missionaries contributed to the construction of several Western-style palaces for Emperor Qianlong, who installed Beauvais tapestries gifted by King Louis XV.

However, in 1860, during the Second Opium War, the French and British armies looted the palace. Subsequently, Empress Eugénie established a "Chinese Museum" at the Château de Fontainebleau to display the looted art objects. This unexpected story highlights the various roles that art has played in the formation of modern international relations.

這場講座探討了法國與中國之間的藝術交流歷史，重點圍繞北京附近的圓明園。18世紀，法國傳教士為乾隆皇帝建造了幾座“西式宮殿”，其中安放了路易十五國王贈送的博韋掛毯。然而，在1860年，第二次鴉片戰爭期間，法國和英國的軍隊劫掠了該宮殿。此後，皇后尤金妮在芳蕾堡創立了“中國博物館”，以展出被掠奪的藝術品。這段意想不到的歷史突顯了藝術在現代國際關係形成中所扮演的多樣角色。