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Does the dialogue that emerges between two musicians improvising together follow patterns similar to language? A team of scientists is trying to find the answer in the STMS laboratory, with an ingenious experiment.

C'est dans la région des Hauts Plateaux, au centre du Vietnam, que vivent « les Montagnards », une vingtaine d'ethnies qui pratiquent le jeu de gong. Cet instrument à percussion est présent dans tous les rituels et festivités qui accompagnent la vie du village. Décrit depuis deux siècles par des explorateurs, des ethnologues et des historiens de tous pays, le gong n'est pas seulement un instrument de musique, mais aussi un objet complexe et pluriel qui participe de l'expression de la culture de…

To mark the bicentenary of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc's birth, the MAP laboratory (Models and simulations for architecture and heritage) and its teams worked on 3D models of elements from the City of Carcassonne and Pierrefonds Castle. In order to carry out these models, they used drones and numerical tools developed by the laboratory. Part of this work will be presented in an exhibition entitled "Viollet-le-Duc[Trait pour trait/Viollet-le-Duc, line for line]" at the Cité de Carcassonne from June…

Au XIXe siècle, le Moyen Age connait un retour en grâce, sous l'effet d'une revalorisation du patrimoine français et de courants artistiques tels que le romantisme. Ce regain d'intérêt est marqué par de grandes campagnes de restaurations de monuments médiévaux. C'est dans ce contexte que s'inscrit l ' oeuvre de l'architecte Eugène Viollet-le-Duc et la restauration de la cité de Carcassonne, chantier colossal qui dura plus de 60 ans. Olivier Poisson, conservateur général du patrimoine, nous…

When the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc undertook the renovation of Pierrefonds castle in 1857 at the request of Napoleon III, it was in a state of ruin. This remarkable fortress was one of the greatest castles of the 15th century. The historian Jean-Paul Midant guides us through the different restored parts of the place-forte and unveils the singular conception of the restoration envisaged by Viollet-le-Duc, between restitution and innovation. For the architect, restoring a monument was more…

Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet, professor of Ancient History at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, is a specialist in the Ancient Greek world of the Archaic and Classical periods (8th B. C. - 4th B. C.). She takes a special interest in gender issues and analyses the discourses and practices of that time, which provide information on the meaning of gender differences as perceived by the Ancients. She studied more specifically the case of Artemisia of Halicarnassus, a warrior woman who…