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More than 900 works by entrepreneurs Martine and Léon Cligman arrive at a Royal Loire Abbey

Fontevraud-l'Abbaye (France), May 15 (EFE) .- (Camera: María Díaz Valderrama) When museums reopen to the public in France this Wednesday there will be a new national art center: the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud, a place pilgrimage for English people and believers, it will now host the more than 900 works from the Martine and Léon Cligman collection.FOOTAGE OF THE ROYAL ABBEY OF FONTEVRAUD. SOUNDBITES IN FRENCH OF DOMINIQUE GAGNEAUX, FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART IN PARIS (FRANCE). Full translation Dominique Gagneaux, former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris:1.- "They have collected for a long time and began to collect paintings of classical modernity, of modern art, and, at the same time, they have associated with this collection figurative paintings from which sensitivity and a very strong sense of humanism and humanity. There are many faces and looks in this collection and we associate these paintings with objects that come from the depths of time and that are Sumerian, Egyptian or Iranian bronzes ".