A real blunder...

Decision of May 2, 2025 initiating an action seeking the return of a French national treasure located on Spanish territory

This action concerns an angel sculpture from the Basilica of Saint Nicholas in Nantes, a national treasure French national, illegally left the country after 2009 and is currently in Spain, a member state of the European Union, where it was seized by the Spanish authorities.

More details about this angel sculpture...

• The City and the architect pay little attention - The forgotten angels of the Basilica of Saint-Nicolas at the heart of a judicial marathon... The City had initially planned to restore them. But their examination, according to the municipality at the time, revealed their advanced state of corrosion. They are 140 years old... The City then changes its mind and decides to have new ones made, in bronze this time, and gilded with gold leaf... the others are stored in the company in charge of the renovation of the spire of the basilica, in the Nantes vineyards. The boss does not see any particular value in them, apart from that of the lead. For him, it's just "construction site scraps."

This happened in 2009

• And, as a surprise, it turned out that the musical angels were designed by architect Antoine Lassus, who participated in the restoration competition for Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris with Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. And the statues, "old junk" that no one had cared about, suddenly take on their historical value.

The story is far from over!

• The mayor in 2009, Jean-Marc Ayrault, who has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Nantes since October 18, 2022. He was probably appointed for his considerable interest in art and his great architectural knowledge. "Was für 'ne Scheisse! Knows no Lassus".

John the Baptist Antoine Lassus

• Nantes in Loire-Atlantique  

• The Basilica of Saint Nicholas Nantes

Virtual travel guaranteed

Exequatur granted to consuls

An exequatur is, among other meanings, the decision of a government recognizing the status of a consul or consul general appointed by a foreign authority, equivalent to the presentation of an ambassador's credentials, and grants him the privileges corresponding to the Vienna Conventions

Vienna Convention on Consular Relations

Exequatur

Practical example

In 2023, Arbitration on a 15 billion sultanate: the Paris Court of Appeal refuses exequatur to the Sultan's heirs against Malaysia. (villagedelajustice). In 1878, the Sultan of Sulu granted two individuals rights over his territory in exchange for an annual payment. The agreement provides that disputes will be submitted to the British Consul General in Borneo...

In 2024, the First Civil Chamber of the Court of Cassation will become involved, due to the disappearance of the position of Consul General of the British Crown stationed in Brunei, an element which, according to the Court, had been "determinative of the parties' willingness to resort to arbitration."

Le Sultanat de Sulu

ACT No. 2025-412 of May 12, 2025 aimed at strengthening the conditions for access to French nationality in Mayotte

According to the applicant MPs, by making the acquisition of French nationality for a child born in Mayotte subject to the condition that both parents reside there regularly at birth for more than a year, these provisions would undermine a fundamental principle recognized by the laws of the Republic, which they ask the Council to recognize, according to which every person born on French territory has the right to access French nationality."

France is an indivisible, secular, democratic, and social Republic. It ensures equality before the law for all citizens without distinction of origin, race, or religion... Its organization is decentralized.

But... the principle of equality does not prevent the legislature from regulating different situations differently, nor from derogating from equality for reasons of general interest...

Ruled by the Constitutional Council in its session of May 7, 2025, which included: Mr. Richard Ferrand, President, Mr. Philippe Bas, Ms. Jacqueline Gourault, Messrs. Alain JUPPÉ, Jacques MÉZARD, François PILLET, François SÉNERS and Ms. Laurence VICHNIEVSKY

Decision No. 2025-881 DC of May 7, 2025 of the Constitutional Council

Renewal

• Decision No. 2025-264 of May 14, 2025, appointing the president of the national programming company France Télévisions... the decision "Motivated"... with the production and publishing of formats adapted to social networks... cooperation projects within public broadcasting and with private publishers... a reliable, impartial, and exemplary information offering... attractive programs for young adults...

A new five-year term begins, it's the third, and a certain Manu dreamed of it!

• Delphine Ernotte-Cunci

Renewal always...

• Decree of May 15, 2025 renewing the mandate of the President of the National Audiovisual Institute - Mr. Laurent Vallet

• Laurent Vallet and another third five-year term

Smokers and the high cost of living...

Order of May 9, 2025 approving the retail selling prices of tobacco manufactured in France, excluding overseas departments

Tobacco prices to download

Public utility...

Order of May 6, 2025 declaring public utility, for the benefit of the Electricity Transmission Network (RTE) company, of the work to create a 225,000-volt underground line NEUHOF - SARREGUEMINES for the connection of The HoloSolis photovoltaic panel manufacturing facility located in Hambach (57)

Hambach in Moselle and "Die Hambacher Krutschisser" - "the Hambach cabbage shitters", and the replica of the Lourdes grotto

Holosolis Photovoltaic, made in Europe, by Europeans for Europeans.

Other replicas of the Lourdes Grotto around the world

And more...

Order of May 5, 2025, declaring the public utility of the Electricity Transmission Network (RTE), for the benefit of the company Réseau de Transport d'Electricité (RTE), for the modification or creation of 22 overhead 225,000 volt or 400,000 volt electrical connections or underground, located in the municipalities of Gravelines and Saint-Georges-sur-l'Aa, and connected to the future FLANDRE MARITIME (RTE) substation located in the municipality of Saint-Georges-sur-l'Aa

• Saint-Georges-sur-l'Aa in the North and its 289 Saint-Georges and Saint-Georgeoises.

• Other RTE projects

And it can always be useful...

Decree No. 2025-427 of May 14, 2025, amending the instructions for applications for declarations of public utility for public electricity network works, with the transfer of authority to the prefect for instructions for 225 kilovolt projects; Modifying the consultation deadlines for mayors and departments; limiting the time allowed for the competent authority to decide on a request after public consultation.

Anything...

• Are the Official Journal of May 14, 2025, issues 55 to 70, affected? Through a project to produce e-methanol and e-kerosene and its electrical connection, the production of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and biogenic e-methanol and its connection, the hazardous waste storage facility project, the construction of a penitentiary facility, the restoration and maintenance work on the Oléron Island bridge... the list is long, but long... many people may be interested.

• About the Oléron Island Bridge in Charente-Maritime and its construction work, six 30-ton trucks tested its strength (May 21 and 22)

• Did they consult the May 3 edition of La Bignole d'antan and the experimental study by Messrs. J. Auclair, President of the Technical Committee for Mechanics, and A. Boyer-Guillon, Head of the Principal Department at the Arts et Métiers Testing Laboratory, on "Vibrations of roads and buildings when heavy vehicles pass over them"