‘The Museum, an out of date institution?’ That is the question posed in an eponymous work by the museum specialist, André Gob. An impertinent question, to which numerous responses are found in his book.

In becoming engrossed in contemporary francophone comic strips, several researchers have begun the spadework in a field which appears to be much more complex and much more autonomous than one might think.

In the multi-author work “Jouer le jeu”, edited by the Théâtre de la Place, Nancy Delhalle retraces nearly 40 years of the history of theatre in the French-speaking Community – a history intimately bound up with the history of our society itself.

In a fascinating work, Dick Tomasovix explores the inextricable relationships which link cinema and dance: how dance has shaped cinema; how people dance in cinema; but also, and even above all, how cinema itself dances.

In a book which stems from her doctoral thesis, Laure Fagnart analyses the French passion for works by Leonardo da Vinci between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. And she tries to reconstruct the journeys of these paintings in French collections of the Renaissance and the Classical Period.