Each president of the French Republic seeks to leave for posterity a work that associates his name with a cultural project according to his tastes.

This is how Georges Pompidou gives its name to the museum of modern art (Beaubourg), Jacques Chirac, the museum of early arts (Branly) and François Mitterrand bequeathed his Library, the Bastille Opera and the Louvre Pyramid. Emmanuel Macron has chosen to restore a Renaissance castle about 80 km north of Paris.

Villers Cotterêts was raised by Francis I, r

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