YEREVAN, JUNE 2. ARMINFO. The decision to hold Year of Armenia in France is very important as it was passed by the presidents, Armenia’s Ambassador to France Eduard Nalbandyan says in an interview to Armenia’s Public TV.
The festivities will be held in both France and Armenia with the first ones starting in Sept 2006. The program includes a gala concert at Republic Square and an exhibition of Louvre’s collection in Yerevan. Charles Aznavour will come to Armenia again. Then the festivities will move to Paris and other French cities. Louvre will host an Armenian exhibition of the pre-Christian and Christian periods, Georges Pompidu Center an exhibition of Archil Gorky. Different French galleries will exhibit works by Aivazovsky, Saryan, Kochar.
The slogan of the year will be “My Friend Armenia.”
Nalbandian says that Armenian-French friendship is centuries old. Luis XIV send his men around the world to search for Armenian manuscripts. That’s why the French National Library has a big collection of Armenian manuscripts. In XIX Napoleon ordered to open an Armenian language department in French University. Many Armenian painters, composers, singers, directors and writers lived and worked in France.
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