If fancy takes you to Paris in the next few months – the fires will probably be out by then – then don’t miss the chance to visit the magnificently restored Hôtel de la Marine on the Place de la Concorde, and a jewel of an exhibition at the Al Thani Collection there, Medieval Treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum: When the English Spoke French.
More than seventy of the finest medieval works of art from the Victoria & Albert Museum are displayed in an exhibition that present a poignant reminder of England’s rich Catholic past and its interconnectedness with European politics, region, trade and the manufacture of luxury religious and secular art. It speaks of friendships, diplomacy and the refined tastes of the upper echelons of church and state that circulated around England and Europe before the Reformation.
