La Grande Mademoiselle Marie-Lucie Cornillot: Une vie de musées à Besançon. Chypre created for the chapel of

created for the chapel of the Medici Palace in Florence

These essays are complemented by interviews with Daniel Abadie and Marcelo Zitelli

between 70 and 80

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where French and North American artists came together around a common conception of painting

La Grande Mademoiselle Marie-Lucie Cornillot: Une vie de musées à Besançon. Chypre created for the chapel ofMarie Lucie Cornillot (1905 2003) was an energetic curator, committed to the heritage and cultural life of Besanon. The first female librarian in Besanon, in 1946 she rose to the status of "curator" by taking over the direction of the city's museum, becoming the second woman to be appointed to this rank in France. Affectionately known to her colleagues as "La Grande Mademoiselle," she directed the "listed museum" of Besanon, which included the current